Hi, I'm Rodney.
I'm a designer and 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. My latest assignment was at Aegon / a.s.r.: upgrading a Drupal 9 platform to 10, owning the Acquia deployments through Azure Pipelines, and preparing the way to a static-site variant on AWS.
Outside client work I build web apps end to end: component-driven UI in React, Next.js and TypeScript, data and auth on Supabase, deployed through GitHub. The result is work like Zieck.eu and Mirami.
I grew up in a musical family. Bass is my first language, piano is the new vocabulary I'm learning. I keep body and mind in balance with calisthenics. The smile survives both.
- Role
- Design engineer, UX/UI and front-end
- Based in
- Groningen, the Netherlands
- Working since
- 2016
- Languages
- Dutch, English
- Education
- HBO Communication & Multimedia Design
Experience
May 2025 – Mar 2026
Drupal developer
Aegon / a.s.r., via Sogeti
- Made custom PHP modules ready for the upgrade from Drupal 9 to 10.
- Owned the deployment flow to Acquia Cloud through Azure Pipelines.
- Set up redirects and trained the content team to work independently in the CMS.
- Helped plan the move to a static-site variant on AWS.
Mar 2023 – Dec 2024
- Designed wireframes in Figma for a new external portal in the Informeren cluster of PANGEA.
- Built four personas from user interviews and ran task-based usability tests.
- Co-built a design system that shortened the hand-off from design to development.
Nov 2022 – Feb 2023
Front-end developer
Gemeente Groningen
- Built a Duolingo-style app for learning Dutch in React.
- Designed reusable components and integrated them with the back end.
Mar 2021 – Oct 2022
UX/UI designer and front-end developer
Gasunie, via Sogeti
- Prototyped a digital-twin web app in Adobe XD.
- Set up a design system the team could grow into.
- Refactored the front end with Sass and Bootstrap into a more readable codebase.
Aug 2020 – Mar 2021
Front-end developer
Innovation team, autonomous drone
- Built a virtual drone simulator in Unreal Engine and AirSim.
- Wrote Python scripts to control and train the drone autonomously.
May 2020 – Aug 2020
UX designer, accessibility
WCAG accessibility project
- Ran weekly accessibility audits against WCAG 2.1 AA.
- Used HeadingsMap, WAVE, axe and ChromeVox to find and report issues.
Dec 2019 – May 2020
UX/UI designer and front-end developer
DICTU
- Designed mobile app screens, wireframes and banners in Adobe XD and Illustrator.
- Moved into the development team to build the designs in Drupal.
- Started a design system for the design team.
Sep 2016 – Feb 2017
Front-end developer
Stoneart
- Built websites and web shops in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Used Crazy Egg heatmaps to test and improve click paths.
Tools
Design
- Figma
- Adobe XD
- Illustrator
- Storybook
- Prototyping
- Usability testing
Front-end
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Sass
- Accessibility (WCAG)
Back-end and CMS
- Supabase
- Postgres
- Prisma
- Drupal
- PHP
- WordPress
Delivery
- GitHub
- Azure Pipelines
- Acquia Cloud
- Vercel
- Scrum
Sundays at Home Groningen
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, and getting a team to land a moment.
Lead front-of-house engineer
Mixing the Sunday gathering live, every week.
Production lead
Audio, video, lights and the people behind every desk.
Worship band leader
Building the setlist, arranging, rehearsing and performing.
Certificates
- Professional Scrum Master I
- TMap Suite Test Engineer
- Tosca 9.0 Certified Professional