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iOS & Tooling Developer
bas@basbroek.nl | 
@BasThomas | 
BasThomas | 
basthomas.github.io | 
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Work related interesting include Open Source Software, reading blogs, writing blog posts, and Swift.
Other, non work related interests include cooking 🍳, baking 🍰, brewing & drinking coffee ☕️, listening to music 🎵, watching TV shows 📺, watches ⌚️, golfing 🏌, skiing ⛷, and cycling 🚴.
I am a software developer from The Netherlands, currently living in Germany.
I value quality over quantity, and I want to make sure the projects I work on are delightful and different.
I am willing to relocate for work — even abroad.
XING August 2017 – current, Hamburg, Germany
Working on iOS & Android tooling.
NU.nl February 2017 - June 2017, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
Final internship, working on UI-driven functional tests. I helped setting up their agnostic infrastructure to work with the iOS platform as well, and looked at the future of testing at the company.
Bringme July 2016 – October 2016, Leuven, Belgium
In the summer of 2016 I worked at Bringme, a company solving the pain points of online shopping, delivering your items to boxes instead of at home. Here, I made a proof of concept, native iOS app, at a point the company was considering a switch from hybrid to native development. They chose native, and released their native apps for iOS and Android in May 2017.
iCulture September 2015 – August 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
At iCulture I've done an internship from September 2015 to February 2016. iCulture is the biggest Apple blog in The Netherlands, located in Amsterdam.
During my internship, I have been working on special projects at the company.*
Apostle December 2014 – July 2015, 's Hertogenbosch / Venlo, The Netherlands
During my time at Apostle, a Dutch company looking to "implement and maintain your company's and employees' social media", I not only built an iOS application that enables users to create posts for multiple social media platforms, but I have also been doing QA for both their web products and apps, as well as some "get started" guides for their tools.
February 2016 – current
Concerts is an app, written in Swift, providing touring information for the artists you know and love.
The app lets you "follow" artists and see when and where they are touring, RSVP to events, and even buy tickets right from the app.
November 2015 – current
Puzzle game showcasing Apple TV, based on 15-puzzle.
November 2016 - current
Analysis is a library for iOS that helps you extract useful information from strings. It calculates the amount of sentences, words, characters, occurrence of words and characters, and more.
June 2016 – current
I have been conducting code reviews for this application, as well as providing (English) localization and doing QA.
Right after Apple TV 4 was released, I dove into its (Interface) Guidelines and made a quick reference guide, using images and checklists to easily visualise and navigate it.
Fontys University of Applied Sciences September 2013 – July 2017, Eindhoven
At Fontys, I studied studying ICT & Software, with a focus on Mobile. Here, I have been working with C#, Java, relational databases, Swift, Java for Android and more.
Delta is a Fontys initiative providing what could be called an excellence programme for students:
"Students who participate in the Delta programme work on their own goals and interests. This may work on ‘exploration projects’, where they are given full freedom to explore a new technology or technique such as Google Glass, Drones, Virtual Reality and 3D printing. But this can also be collaborating on projects for real clients."
Here, I made Opus, a Smart Mirror, making use of technologies as Leap Motion, Kinect and more. This project went through a full software architecture - from concepting to realisation.
Avans University of Applied Sciences September 2012 – July 2013, 's Hertogenbosch
At Avans, I studied ICT / Information Technology, working mostly with Java. I also learned about software modelling, relational databases and ITIL.
Philips - HAVO, N&T September 2007 – June 2012, Weert
In highschool, I graduated with a curriculum based on Nature and Engineering.
In highschool, we had an option to follow "Bilingual Education", in which roughly 50% of all courses were conducted in English.
Concluding this special field of study, I finished my Anglia Advanced Exam.
The last two years of highschool, I followed an International Baccalaureate English and finished its exam.
I ❤️ OSS. The collaboration it enables is truly wonderful. That's why I like to contribute to projects I use and love, making them even better.
Some projects I have been involved in:
Bringing you an overview of what's been happing in open source Swift every Thursday. I've been contributing content as well as writing some full issues.
It's on GitHub.
Moya is a network abstraction layer written in Swift. I've been contributing to this project by making their documentation even more awesome, as well as helping out users with any issues they might have.
GitHawk is a small iOS app that makes managing GitHub accounts and projects a little easier. I've been contributing to this app in a couple of ways, such as improving its accessibility, writing blog posts and much more.
Check ou the app on GitHub.
try! Swift is a Swift conference held in multiple cities around the world.
I am currently enhancing the iOS app for the conference to be more flexible and more easily usable.
For example, I have rewritten the app to enable the use of JSON files for all speaker, sponsor and presentation data, where before this was all hardcoded.
Check out the app on GitHub.
I have also contributed to repositories, including but not limited to swift, swift-evolution, MGSwipeTableCell, Alamofire, and UIImageColors.
These contributions included grammar corrections and syntax highlighting in READMEs and documentation - which I think is a really easy and useful way to contribute to OSS.
I have proofread reviews for Dutch Apple blog iCulture, checking for both spelling and substantive errors (these articles are in Dutch):
- 12.9" iPad Pro review
- 9.7" iPad Pro review
- iPhone 7 / 7 Plus review
- iPhone 6s / 6s Plus review
- iPhone SE review
- Apple TV 4 review
- Apple Watch Series 2 review
- 12.9" iPad Pro Smart Keyboard review
- Steelseries Nimbus Apple TV Gamecontroller review
- Apple Pencil review
- Opinie: Zo kan Phil Schiller de App Stores beter maken
- Nieuwe Apple TV bevat geen internetbrowser door ontbreken webview
I have also proofread research papers for graduates, checking for both spelling and substantive errors (these research papers are written in Dutch).*
Swift, Objective-C, Git (& GitHub), Java, Ruby, Python, Groovy, C#, SQL / PLSQL, PHP, Python, Continuous Integration, Scrum, Quality Assurance.
| Language | Dutch | English | German |
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| Speaking | Native | Fluent | Basic |
| Writing | Native | Fluent | Basic |
| Reading | Native | Fluent | Intermediate |
"This last half year we've had some sessions with students from Delta, which we challenged to develop an app showing available rooms where people can discuss things, hold meetings etc. It had to explicitly NOT be a reservation system, but a realtime-roomfinder based on the wireless data provided by Fontys. The students were supported and helped by KPN (process), 12CU (app development & content), and Cisco (engineering). The result is OK, and will be transferred to Peter Dieteren (Fontys), who is looking into realising the idea in production.
In the group of students, behaviour was fluctuating. Some were fanatical and collaborative, others were clearly less motivated (no preparation, leaving early, etc.). With great distance, the student Bas Broek was the most valuable and dedicated, and also arranged meetings and the organisation of the product in general. Simply put; the end product would probably not have been here without Bas.
Thanks to all students, it was an interesting project for all people involved."
Rens van der Vorst, Innovation, Advice & Projects, Fontys service IT, July 2015
(Emphasis and URLs mine)
Original reference (Dutch)
"Het afgelopen half jaar hebben we een aantal sessies gehad met jullie Delta’s die we uitgedaagd hebben om een APP te ontwikkelen die aangeeft waar ruimte beschikbaar is om te overleggen/vergaderen/etc… Het moest expliciet geen reserveringssysteem zijn, maar een realtime – ruimtevinder gebaseerd op draadloze data. De studenten werden daarbij ondersteund door KPN (proces), 12CU (inhoud - Apps) en Cisco (techniek). Het resultaat is best oké, en wordt vandaag overgedragen aan Peter Dieteren (Fontys) die nu gaat kijken of en hoe hij het kan uitbouwen naar een productieversie.
In de groep vertoonden de studenten wisselend gedrag. Een aantal waren fanatiek, meewerkend, maar een aantal waren ook duidelijk minder gemotiveerd (hadden niets voorbereid, verlieten de bouwsessies eerder, etc…). Met afstand de meest waardevolle student was Bas Broek, zowel in toewijding, organisatie als in het verzetten van werk. Simpel gezegd, het product wat er nu ligt had er zonder Bas waarschijnlijk niet gelegen.
Bedankt voor jullie studenten, het was voor alle betrokkenen een leuk traject!"
"Bas has, during his internship at iCulture, proved to be a valuable addition to the iCulture team. Not only because of his knowledge and skills regarding his project, but also as added value to the editor staff and as "ambience enhancer" in the group. Our wish to keep Bas involved with iCulture is reflected in his high rating and mark."
Jean-Paul Horn / Alex Bouma, Publisher / lead developer, iCulture, February 2016
Original reference (Dutch)
"Bas heeft tijdens zijn stage bewezen een zeer waardevolle toevoeging te zijn aan het iCulture team. Niet alleen vanwege zijn kennis en kunde met betrekking tot de invulling van zijn opdracht, maar ook als toegevoegde waarde voor het redactieteam en als sfeermaker binnen de groep. Onze wens om Bas betrokken te houden bij iCulture is gereflecteerd in zijn hoge eindbeoordeling en dito cijfer."
* Material available on request.