Maarten Vleugels

Maarten Vleugels

Creative Engineer in Amsterdam / Global

About

I'm a Lead Engineer at Swell, diving into creative engineering projects. I love the freedom of remote work, which lets me travel and discover new places. When I'm not working with computers, you’ll find me tinkering, woodworking, or restoring vintage cars and motorcycles. I'm also a big fan of history, music, and film.

Work Experience

2022 — Now
Remote

Lead Engineer for the public facing sites at Swell, a headless ecommerce platform.

Tech stack: Typescript, React, Next.js, Sanity, TailwindCSS, Turborepo, Jest, Vercel, AWS, Swell, Vite

2018 — Now
Freelancing

For among others:
King Kong Magazine, The Weeknd, Donda Live

2017 — 2022
Amsterdam

Lead the engineering team for animation and design focussed projects at Wonderland.
Created the technical stack, worked on design <-> developer handover and relations. Technical communications with clients and new business.

Tech Stack:
NextJS and React, Nuxt and Vue.js, Typescript, PHP, Angular, Sveltekit, Three.js and WebGL, Sanity, Contentful, DatoCMS, Prismic, Node.js, AWS, GraphQL, Shopify, Stripe, Auth0

2015 — 2017
Berlin

Worked as Interaction Designer and Developer at Artificial Rome, which are mostly focusing on creating virtual experiences trough installations and the web.

Tech Stack:
Dojo, WebGL, Three.JS, Wordpress, PHP, Vue.js, Angular, V4 or vvvv

Volunteering

2022 — Now
Amsterdam, Poland, Ukraine

Logistics for Dutch Civilian Action, organising transportation for donations to Ukraine, and bringing refugees to safety in the Netherlands.

2017 — 2022
Amsterdam

Volunteer at Hack Your Future, training and teaching people with a refugee background to become web developers and software testers.

Projects

2023

Public-facing sites, including developer and help center.
Role: Infrastructure, Front-end (animation), CMS, platform integration
Tech Stack: Tailwind, Next.JS / react, Typescript, Jest

2021

Engineering for an online music community, where you can get lost reading, listening, watching, discovering and discussing music.

Role: Infrastructure, Front-end (animation), Subscriptions, Database and CMS

Tech Stack: Nuxt / Vue.js, Stripe (subscriptions), DatoCMS, FaunaDB. The whole infrastructure is serverless.

2021

Full stack engineering for the major money transfer application in Netherlands

Role: Infrastructure, Front-end (animation), CMS, secure deployment structure

Tech Stack: Angular / Nuxt - Vue.js, Typescript, Contentful, CI/CD

2019

Full stack engineering for Brazilian fashion brand including 800+ products, with both local an international store.

Role: Infrastructure, Front-end (animation), Ecommerce integration, CMS, Design

Tech Stack: Nuxt and Vue.js, Shopify, DatoCMS, Node.JS

2018

Creative experiments and online store for The Cool Club.

Roles: Infrastructure, Front-end (animation) (webgl), Ecommerce, CMS

Tech Stack: Woocommerce, Nuxt, Wordpress, WebGL, ThreeJS, Cannon.js

2016

Creative engineer for 3D Sennheiser Orpheus experience

Role: Front-end (animation)

Tech Stack: WebGL - Three.js, Backbone

2016

Creative engineer for IWC Skywriter project, a 3d experience

Role: Front-end (animation)

Tech Stack: Typescript, WebGL - Three.js, Angular

Education

2012 — 2016
ICT & Media Design at Fontys ICT Eindhoven
Eindhoven

Awards

2023
7x FOTD from The FWA
2023
1x SOTY from Awwwards
2023
10x SOTD from Awwwards