2024
Meridian Design System
Component library and token system powering 12 products across a Series B fintech company. Reduced UI decision-making time by 40 hours per week across 65 engineers.
React TypeScript Storybook Design Tokens
Senior Frontend Engineer · Amsterdam
Building fast, accessible, design‑led web experiences.
8 years crafting design systems, squeezing Lighthouse scores to 100, and making the web a little better — from Amsterdam.
Featured Work
Selected projects from the last two years.
2024
Vela Trading Dashboard
High-performance real-time dashboard handling 50,000 price updates per second using canvas rendering and a custom reconciliation layer. Achieved sub-16ms frame times.
Astro WebSockets Canvas API TypeScript
2023
Lumino E-commerce
Full performance audit and rebuild of a €50M ARR e-commerce platform. Lifted Lighthouse scores from 54 to 100, improving organic search impressions by 34%.
Next.js Core Web Vitals Performance
2023
Helix CMS
Headless CMS with a custom block-based editor built for a media company publishing 200+ articles per week. Custom Astro integration for zero-latency preview.
Astro TypeScript TipTap PostgreSQL
Latest Writing
Technical articles on performance, design systems, and frontend engineering.
Astro React Performance Frontend
Why I Ditched React for Astro (And Never Looked Back)
After 6 years of React, I switched to Astro for a client project. Here's what surprised me, what I miss, and why I'll never go back for content-heavy sites.
Design Systems TypeScript React Productivity
The Design System That Saved Our Team 40 Hours Per Week
How we built a component library that eliminated design-dev handoff friction and saved 40+ engineering hours every single week.
Performance Core Web Vitals SEO JavaScript
Core Web Vitals Aren't Optional: A Practical Guide for 2025
LCP, CLS, INP explained with real fixes you can ship today. No fluff — just the patterns that actually move the needle on Core Web Vitals.
Available for projects
Let’s build something exceptional.
I take on select frontend engineering and design system projects throughout the year. If you’re building something that demands precision, let’s talk.
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