Martijn van der Ven

Personal details

Date of birth
October 23, 1991 (1991-10-23)
Email address
martijn@vanderven.se
Telephone (mobile)
+46 73 093 50 37
Postal address
Box 35 662 21 Åmål Sweden
More information
http://vanderven.se/martijn/

Education

2007–2011 Karlbergsgymnasiet (upper secondary school)
Natural & Computer Sciences.
With A’s in Mathematics, English, German, Web development, Database Management (MySQL & MS Access), and Programming (C++).
2011–2016 Karlstad University (Karlstad Business School)
Coursework towards Bachelor’s degree in Economics, specialised towards macro economics.
2017– Karlstad University
Bachelor’s degree in Statistics. Expected mid-2019.
(In progress.)

Work experience

2017– Bacill Produktionsbyrå, Independent Contractor
Working on a per-feature basis with web applications back-ends using Laravel.
2016–2017 LSP Solutions, Junior Programmer
Developing features in SaaS solutions for big logistics providers. Front-end user interface development, back-end implementations, and PostgreSQL database management.
Summer 2011 Indexhibit, support & back-end development.
Providing customer support, on the forums as well as one-on-one, as well as updating themes before a new major release. Back-end development on analytical tools and image processing.
2009–2011 GetSimple CMS, support & core development.
Implementing security measures and managing the community support forums. Designing themes and developing plugins. (Open-source software.)
Summer 2008 ShotCode (OP3), front-end web development.
Internship. Re-developing site infrastructure for SEO and accessibility.
2004–2007 Het Stedelijk Lyceum, front-end web development.
Work on the virtual learning environment (Moodle), spearheading compliance with WCAG and Section 508 accessibility.

Projects

Open Standards

From 2017, I have been doing a lot of work with open web standards. These include IndieWeb standards, WHATWG standards, and PHP Standard Recommendations (PSR). My efforts have been acknowledged in the HTML, DOM, and IndieAuth specifications.

I am also an active participant to the microformats standard, have published on their blog, and have done hackcamp sessions about them at two separate IndieWebCamps.

IndieWeb

I have been active in the IndieWeb movement (https://indieweb.org) for several years. Attending gatherings in different countries, including the first Homebrew Website Club in Sweden. I have also organised Homebrew Website Club in the Netherlands and am still running an (almost) regular online Homebrew Website Club. I attend the Leaders Summit for organising global policy.

Open Source contributions

Throughout the years I have contributed to many open-source projects and communities. The following is a sampling to show the diversity. The latest can often be found on my GitHub profile: https://github.com/Zegnat.

Languages

Computer skills

Programming/mark-up languages:

Interests and activities