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Hi, I'm
Rodney.

Rodney Zieck portrait
✦ that's me

I'm a creative front-end developer — known for the smile I bring into the room. Curious by default, fast to ramp up in a new stack, and the calm one in the room when a sprint catches fire.

By day I'm a consultant at Sogeti, where my latest mission lived inside Aegon · a.s.r. — modernising a Drupal 9 platform up to 10, owning the Acquia deploys via Azure Pipelines, and quietly preparing the way to a static-site variant on AWS.

Outside billable hours I build modern web apps end-to-end — component-driven UI in React/Next.js + TypeScript, data and auth on Supabase, deployed cleanly through GitHub. The result is sites like zieckdesign.nl, chess.zieckdesign.nl and centwise.

I grew up in a musical family — bass is my first language, piano is the new vocabulary I'm learning. I keep the body-and-mind loop tight with calisthenics. The smile survives both.

Profile

Name
Rodney Zieck
Role
UI/UX · Medior Front-end
Based
Groningen, NL
Languages
Nederlands · English
Plays
Bass · piano (in training)
Trains
Calisthenics
✦ open to workbass · groove

Toolbelt

The stack I reach for.

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptTailwindFigmaDesign SystemsSupabaseDrupalPHPSASSGitHubAzure PipelinesAccessibility (WCAG)PrototypingUsability testing

/ cv · 2016 — now

The road so far.

Currently embedded at Aegon · a.s.r. via Sogeti. Earlier work spans Gasunie, Gemeente Groningen, drone simulations and a few accessibility deep-dives.

  1. May 2025 — Mar 2026★ current

    Drupal Developer

    Aegon · a.s.r. (via Sogeti)

    • Made custom PHP modules upgrade-ready for Drupal 9 → 10.
    • Owned deployment flow via Azure Pipelines on Acquia Cloud.
    • Set up redirects and ran CMS training so the team became self-sufficient.
    • Helped chart the path toward a static-site variant on AWS.
  2. Mar 2023 — Dec 2024

    UI/UX Designer

    Gasunie (via Sogeti)

    • Designed wireframes in Figma for a new external portal in the ‘Informeren’ cluster.
    • Built personas from interviews and ran usability testing rounds.
    • Co-built a design system that streamlined the design ↔ dev handoff.
  3. Nov 2022 — Feb 2023

    Front-end Developer

    Gemeente Groningen

    • Built a Duolingo-style learn-Dutch app in React.
    • Designed reusable components and integrated cleanly with the back-end.
  4. Mar 2021 — Oct 2022

    UI/UX Designer · Front-end Developer

    Gasunie (via Sogeti)

    • Prototyped a digital-twin web app interactively in Adobe XD.
    • Built a design system the team could grow into.
    • Refactored the front-end with SASS + Bootstrap for a more readable codebase.
  5. Aug 2020 — Mar 2021

    Front-end Developer

    Innovation Team — Autonomous Drone

    • Built a virtual-drone simulator in Unreal Engine + AirSim.
    • Wrote Python scripts to control and train the drone autonomously.
  6. May 2020 — Aug 2020

    UI/UX

    WCAG Accessibility Project

    • Ran weekly accessibility scans against WCAG 2.1 AA.
    • Used Headingsmap, WAVE, axe and Chromevox to surface findings.
  7. Dec 2019 — May 2020

    UI/UX · Front-end

    DICTU

    • Designed mobile app screens, wireframes and banners in Adobe XD/Illustrator.
    • Switched into the dev team to build out designs in Drupal (HTML/CSS).
    • Kicked off a design system for the design team.
  8. Sep 2016 — Feb 2017

    Front-end Developer

    Stoneart

    • Built websites and webshops in HTML, CSS and JS/jQuery.
    • Ran usability tests with Crazyegg heatmaps to refine click flows.
Live worship moment at Home Groningen
Sunday gathering · Home Groningen

/ off the clock

Leading the room
on Sundays.

Outside the day job I run audio, production and the worship band at Home Groningen. Same muscles as the day job — focus under pressure, calm in the room, getting a team to land a moment.

01 · Audio

Lead FOH Mixer

Front-of-house engineer for the Sunday gathering — running the mix live, week in, week out.

02 · Production

Lead Production

Owning the production flow end-to-end: audio, video, lights and the people behind every desk.

03 · Music

Worship Band Leader

Leading the worship band — building the setlist, arranging, rehearsing, performing.

Education & Certs

  • ✦Professional Scrum Master I
  • ✦TMap® Suite Test Engineer
  • ✦Tosca 9.0 Certified Professional
  • ✦HBO Communication & Multimedia Design

Off-duty

Three things that keep
the smile on.

  • Bass. Grew up in a musical family. Pocket-first, melody-second.
  • Piano. Recent obsession. Slowly stealing time from the bass.
  • Calisthenics. Body and mind in balance — and excellent debugging fuel.

Now hiring (yourself an ally)

Want me on your team?

me@zieckdesign.nl