Senior Front-end developer - Giwan Persaud

Senior / lead
Front-end Engineer

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Giwan Persaud

Dutch national living near Amsterdam

giwan.persaud@gmail.com

📚 Experience

Principal front-end eng. & Team lead

Marktplaats by Adevinta

Amsterdam, Oct 2022 - present

  • Lead a team of three developers
  • Support front-end chapter to continuously improve
  • Implement automation to support internal packages

Lead front-end developer

Wizenoze

Amsterdam, Mar 2021 - Oct 2022

  • Lead a team of three developers
  • Architect and build SDK using ReactJS and ReduxJS
  • Optimised documentation using DocusaurusJS

Sr. front-end developer

Aidence

Amsterdam, Mar 2020 - Feb 2021

  • Built new annotator tool with ReactJS and 3rd party renderer
  • Investigated and fixed performance and stability
  • Trained and coordinated work efforts for other devs

Sr. front-end developer

WeerOnline

Amsterdam, Oct 2019 - Jan 2020

  • Analysed ReactJS performance issues affecting ad delivery
  • Helped deploy milestone release to production
  • Highlighted improvements for complex ReactJS rendering issue

Lead front-end developer

Edia

Amsterdam, Sept 2015 - Jul 2019

  • Architect reader and editor for language learners using ReactJS & ReduxJS
  • Built FE for API product offering with subscription, while coaching the team
  • Collaborate with the backend team on Docker projects

Founder - fullstack dev (side project)

Mytoori

Amsterdam, Sept 2014 - present

  • Develop iOS App with Objective-C
  • Build book management system using ReactJS, NodeJS & MongoDB
  • Coordinate product marketing and investors

  • Developer

    Bureau BlauwGeel 2014 - 2014

  • CoFounder - Developer

    Questionise 2012 - 2014

  • SAP Technical consultant

    Accenture 2004 - 2012

🛠️ Skills

  • React

    10 years

  • NextJS

    6 years

  • ReduxJS

    9 years

  • NodeJS

    5 years

  • JestJS

    9 years

  • HTML & CSS

    10+ years

  • ExpressJS

    6 years

  • GIT

    10+ years
  • BFF (Backend for Frontend)
  • GitHub Actions
  • Remix - React Router
  • Accessibility
  • Microservices
  • Docker
  • Micro frontends
  • PWA
  • Hosting (Heroku, Vercel, Netlify, AWS)
  • MongoDB

🌍 Languages

  • English

    fluent

  • Dutch

    fluent

  • French

    intermediate

  • Portuguese

    beginner

🎓 Education

  • MSc. Web Marketing and Project management 2011

    SKEMA Business school - Sophia Antipolis, France
    • Project management
    • planning
    • stakeholder management
    • PMI certification
    • Search Engine Marketing
    • Social media

  • Bachelor Information Engineering 2004

    Hogeschool van Amsterdam - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Project management
    • Java
    • UML
    • Communication
    • Object Oriented Design

Personal Projects

  • Mytoori

    A bilingual book app using NodeJS in the backend and NextJS in the front-end. I work on this in my free time mostly for fun.

  • blog.mytoori.com

    This is where I try to capture some of my knowledge and learning. It’s built using NextJS and uses MDX for the content, which is stored directly in GitHub.

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