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Freelance Svelte and SvelteKit developer

I build Svelte and SvelteKit applications from Zaandam, near Amsterdam: shared workspaces, shops and tools people use every day.

The interface and the system behind it

Svelte is my first choice for many new web applications. I like working on interfaces with awkward constraints: several people editing the same thing, a workflow that has to work on a phone, or a screen that must explain a complicated decision without making it look complicated.

I work across the interface, backend and integrations. That can mean starting a product, joining an existing team, or taking over an application that needs someone to understand how its pieces fit together.

Shared state, real users

Guidesty is a SvelteKit and Convex travel planner where a group edits one itinerary. A change to the board also needs to reach the map and everyone else in the trip. It has polls, shared expenses and a Capacitor shell for the phone apps. It is still being built.

Kwantor uses Svelte for a different kind of shared workspace: documents, signatures and equity arrangements. The difficult part is keeping the agreement people see aligned with what the system executes. Multihaarden puts SvelteKit in front of a shop, a Node API and an editorial system.

Starting with the constraint

Tell me who uses the application, what they need to do and what already exists. Those answers determine the architecture. A public page that needs to be found, an authenticated workspace and an app running in a phone shell do not all need the same rendering or deployment setup.

Technologies

• Svelte
• SvelteKit
• Convex
• Node.js
• Capacitor

Selected work

• Guidesty: group travel planner

  Guidesty is a cooperative travel planner where a group of travellers can build an itinerary, vote on ideas and split the bill. I founded it with my longtime friend Mohamed and it's under active development.

• Kwantor: employee participation, funding rounds

  I led development of Kwantor’s participation platform from 2022. Now it runs funding rounds, and my part is the money: held until a round is funded, then released or refunded.

• Multihaarden: fireplace webshop

  I built Multihaarden’s storefront, API and editorial tools from scratch: a media-rich fireplace shop that scores 100 on Lighthouse, ahead of all its competitors.

Working together

I work from Zaandam, next to Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Tell me what you want to build, what already exists and where you are getting stuck. How I work.

Email me at m [at] hacktis.ch.