I'm Deanna, a creative developer from the Netherlands, working with great joy at Software Bastards. Bachelor's degree from Communication and Multimedia Design at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences as a webdeveloper and digital designer. Passionate about lots of things, especially tech/design-related. Below are a few interesting stats about my time on GitHub. I've also written out my experience, knowledge, skills and some personal insights. That's a lot of info that I'd normally just put on a print-like CV, but I thought I'd be nice to have this info collected in one place along with my projects' source code, and portfolio site.
Visit deannabosschert.nl for a showcase of my recent work. (note: still a WIP)
- 🏫 Education
- 📈 Experience in tech
- ⚙️ Skills
- Languages
- Integrating experience
- Development tools
- Other knowledge + experience
- 💬 Socials
- 2022: Graduated with a bachelor's degree from Communication and Multimedia Design, thesis graded with a 10 (A++).
- 2017: Received my Propedeuse of Communication and Multimedia Design.
- 2016: Graduated with a pre-university degree at the Jan van Egmond College.
- 2016: Obtained my Cambridge Advanced English Certificate.
- 2022+ Software Engineer at Software Bastards
- 2024 jun - now software engineer at Arbor, team R&D.
- 2023 dec-jun 2024 full-stack developer at Sector Orange, working on TSVJ (Transparante Schadevrije Jaren) project.
- 2022 sept-apr 2023 web developer at Nationale Postcode Loterij (Goede Doelen Loterijen), team Online Campaign Platform.
- 2021-2023 Teaching assistant at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences for tech-focused courses.
- 2021 aug-feb 2022: Graduation project at Active Collective, focused on developer efficiency enhancement.
- 2021 feb-juli: Internship Creative Developer at Active Collective (Digital Design Agency).
- 2020-2022: Student assistent at the mostly tech-related courses 'ISGA Project', 'Internetstandaarden', 'Project Passie' and an 'introduction course HTML/CSS' in the first year of Communication and Multimedia Design, and 'Frontend Development' + 'Project Tech' in the second year. Mostly personal assistance via video calls and making lots of example code for the students.
- 2017-2019: Teaching assistant at a high school; one year in Tech-Science for Sophomores ('brugklassen' in Dutch) and one year of Computer Science for Seniors (eindexamenklassen) at the Da Vinci college (HAVO/VWO).
- 2017 (3 months): Internship at dnata in which I focused on frontend and developed an e-learning programme.
- 2016-2022: Lots of other student assistant work, and pre-'16 side jobs in retail and restaurants but that's a bit irrelevant for now
- Part of the T500 list of The Next Web for the third year in a row now
- I've volunteered for De Duiventil society as a bar team member for about 2 years.
- I also occasionally photographed at events for IAM Core (see Facebook for in which albums I'm tagged as photographer, for more) and generally liked to help out at events.
IAM Core study society deserves a special place on this resume;
- 2017: I've started out as a member of the 'study trip committee' in my first year, in which we organized a study trip to Lisbon.
- 2018: This was followed by a year in the 'game committee' in which we organized gaming nights.
- 2019: After these first two years, I did another year of participating and fulfilled the role of the Treasurer of the association as board member, in which I also organized field trips, networking events, a study trip to Warsaw, our introduction weekend for first-year students and many more.
- It's such an overused mention in resumes, but perfectionism has proven itself to be very much present. It's a blessing and a burden, but becoming less perfectionistic whilst still having an extremely well eye for detail for when it's necessary is what I aim for right now. Best of both worlds!
- I'm quite good at writing in Dutch; I rarely make spelling mistakes or grammar errors.
- I'm always very open for feedback; I've learned so much this past year and it's mostly because I've just taken in so many advices from others
- That being said; sometimes I'm kind of an open book and not afraid to talk about the things I find hard or that I feel like is important. It's the best and quickest way to get better at things, right?
- Also very open to learning new things. It may sound like a cliché but I actually like soaking up new information and gaining skills.
- Focus on semantics
- Applying Progressive Enhancement principles
- Accessibility knowledge (a11y guidelines)
- SCCS
- Comfortable working with BEM or SMACCS methodology
- Comfortable working with InuitCSS system
- Comfortable working with MUI components
- Comfortable working with PrimeReact
- Node.js
- Nest.js
- React
- Next.js
- Vue.js
- Nuxt.js
- Express.js
- Static site generating (Eleventy)
- Using template languages like EJS, Liquid, Handlebars or Nunjucks
- D3.js
- Chart.js
- Socket.io
- Server-side scripting
- Client-side scripting
- Data manipulation + rendering
- Functional programming principles
- Experience with WordPress back-end in PHP
- REST API's
- Headless CMS (Storyblok, NetlifyCMS)
- WordPress (including custom themes, plugins etc)
- Databases (MongoDB, SQL)
- NPM packages
- Socket.io
- Familiar with Storybook.js
- Git
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Codepen
- FTP
- CLI in general
- Collaborating in teams using GitHub or GitLab (e.g. Project Boards, Issues, Pull Requests, code reviews, branches etc.)
- Use of coding guidelines
- Development resources
- Visual Studio Code
- Cursor
- Atom
- Brackets
(and Notepad++ a long, long time ago..)
- Azure DevOps
- Netlify
- Heroku
- GitHub Pages
🦄 Teaching
🦄 User-centered Design and concepting
🦄 Photography
🦄 Web Design
🦄 Datavisualization
🦄 Research
🦄 Design Ethics
🦄 Performance enhancements (following Lighthouse standards)
🦄 Writing documentation (Gitbook, ReadMe, Wiki etc.)
🦄 Markdown
🎨 Figma
🎨 Miro
🎨 Notion
🎨 Zeplin
🎨 Procreate
🖥️ Adobe Illustrator
🖥️ Adobe Lightroom CC
🖥️ Adobe Lightroom Classic
🖥️ Adobe Photoshop
🖥️ Adobe Premiere Pro
👥 Google Drive tools
👥 Microsoft Office tools
👥 Microsoft Teams
👥 Slack
👥 Trello
👥 Productive
- You can always reach me at [email protected].
- Sometimes I tweet what's on my mind on Twitter, or just share useful things or stuff that I find important.
- My LinkedIn is a bit abandoned but I'm always up for new connections
- My Codepen is used for a mix of quick examples (usually for teaching students) and well.. less quick examples
- I've written some articles as part of an assignment and posted on Medium
- Free images on Unsplash
- Non-free images on Flickr