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Menno-Paul Schreuder

About me

I'm Menno-Paul Schreuder, a senior front-end developer from Apeldoorn. I work in the Belastingdienst's design system team through Saxum, and through Pixels for Breakfast, which I started in 2017, I take on web development projects and Angular upgrades.

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I started in IT and moved through DTP and marketing work. The visual side drew me in, and with my affinity for software, front-end development was where both came together.

My best assignments involve Angular or Vue and a lot of CSS, preferably Tailwind. Non-standard layouts, animation and responsive or animated SVG are where I'm at my best. I like working with designers who push the limits of what's possible, and helping turn complex, bespoke designs into code a team can maintain.

I work best as the bridge between design and development: I understand both sides well enough to translate between them. My focus is front-end, but I know my way around PHP and .NET backends from years of different assignments.

What to expect

I'm curious, hands-on and quick to get productive in a new codebase. What I don't know yet, I learn fast and pragmatically. If you need someone who knows every corner of one framework, I'm probably not your developer. If you need a senior who takes on a challenge and puts in the time to master what it takes, let's talk over a cup of coffee.

Outside work

I live in Apeldoorn, I'm married, and three young women call me dad. Our dog Capo ('boss', and he acts like it) gets an hour-long walk every evening. I love music and singing, and I never quite got over wanting to be a fighter pilot, so DCS gets fired up now and then.

Experience

  1. – present

    Belastingdienst (Team Bold)

    Front-end developer via Saxum

    Front-end developer in Team Bold, which builds and maintains Bold: the Belastingdienst's design system of about 50 web components built with StencilJS, with wrapper packages for Angular, React, Vue 3 and vanilla JavaScript. As a team we build every component to the accessibility requirements for Dutch government organisations, and test with axe and manual screen reader tests in VoiceOver and NVDA.

    • Moved the monorepo from npm and Node 20 to pnpm and Node 24, with a focus on supply-chain safety, and updated the OpenShift/Tekton pipelines to match.
    • Built a new modal component on the native HTML <dialog> element, for the best accessibility out of the box.
    • Upgraded the Angular wrapper package to the latest Angular version.
    • Fix high and critical vulnerabilities by updating dependencies and peer dependencies frequently.

  2. – present

    Alliander (Team FAAM)

    Freelance front-end developer (Angular)

    Sole front-end developer on an internal application that gives access to more than 17 million images, with their metadata, of meter cabinets, substations, transmission towers and other grid infrastructure.

    • Upgraded the application to Angular 18.
    • Integrated a new API and built the components for version 3.
    • Prototyped the version 3 MVP in Figma and refined it with user feedback.
    • Styling with Bootstrap and Tailwind CSS; unit tests in Jest, end-to-end tests in Cypress.

  3. –

    Vattenfall (eMobility)

    Freelance front-end developer (Angular)

    Worked on Angular and Capacitor projects in an Nx monorepo with Angular 17, RxJS, NGXS and Storybook.

    • Built and supported a sales wizard for charging points.
    • Worked on the smart-charging mobile app (Capacitor, Ionic, Angular).
    • Introduced Tailwind CSS for the whole monorepo, presented its pros and cons to the team and wrote the documentation.

  4. –

    Topicus Healthcare (GGD)

    Freelance front-end developer (Angular)

    Front-end developer in the infectious diseases team. Built and maintained Angular 13+ applications and components for several Java applications, migrated existing styling to Tailwind CSS and trained several teams in using and maintaining it.

  5. –

    Vereniging Eigen Huis

    Freelance front-end developer (Angular)

    Front-end developer in the development team of the website and member portals.

    • Migrated the styling from Bootstrap to Tailwind CSS.
    • Phased out AngularJS and upgraded Angular from v9 to v14.
    • Built new Angular components and funnels.
    • Built a living style guide (.NET Core and Tailwind) and improved SEO and performance.

  6. –

    ThiemeMeulenhoff

    Freelance front-end developer (Vue.js)

    Built the Twig templating for a Symfony application, Vue.js components for the learning environment and student tracking system, and interactive SVG-based learning tasks. Reduced the styling to smaller, more efficient stylesheets.

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    The Valley (AkzoNobel)

    Freelance front-end developer (Vue.js)

    Front-end components for all AkzoNobel streams in a multidisciplinary, international scrum team. Built a standalone, configurable Vue.js store locator that supports Google, Yandex, Bing and Gaode Maps and works in every browser, including IE11.

  8. –

    Idella (Evi van Lanschot)

    Freelance front-end developer (AngularJS & Angular)

    Responsive HTML for the funnels and portal of an investment product, built with ASP.NET Razor, CSS and Angular 2/4, with white-label support for custom styling.

  9. –

    Zig Websoftware

    Front-end developer & TYPO3 engineer

    Web applications for housing corporations: the front end of the tenant portal and corporate website, plus the TYPO3 backend extensions behind them (Flow framework). Ad-hoc work on customer projects and on the base extensions of the CMS.

  10. –

    Youwe

    Front-end developer & TYPO3 engineer

    TYPO3 websites for a school community in Amsterdam and a high-end travel agency, product development of a social intranet application, and MailChimp templates.

  11. –

    RedMatters

    Front-end developer & TYPO3 developer

    Front-end development for TYPO3 and Sitefinity (.NET), plus DTP work. First agile/scrum experience, working remotely with a development team in Romania: tracked progress and turned requirements into stories and tasks.

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