Hi, I’m Robert Hoekstra—full‑stack JavaScript developer, consultant, and founder based in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.

I wrote my first HTML tag in 2012. The same year, at age 19, I founded Hoekstra Multimedia to help local businesses stand out online with fast, accessible marketing sites. That entrepreneurial jump—owning both tech and outcomes—still shapes the way I work today.

Over the past decade I’ve moved from single‑page sites to complex, data‑driven platforms:

Built an IoT‑enabled glass‑washer service app that proactively schedules maintenance and reduces downtime.
Shipped a Visma eAccounting ↔ HubSpot configurator in React, streamlining sales‑quote creation for commercial teams.
Led front‑end for the Dutch education sector’s first fully transparent learning‑material catalog (Next.js), enabling teachers to quickly compare available resources.
Engineered a secure PDF viewer with token‑based streaming that blocks downloads and screen‑scraping, protecting publisher content during peak student traffic.
Mapped large‑scale CSV data sets into GraphQL APIs so publishers could launch analytics dashboards quickly.

Today I split my time between leading integrations at Bright Digital (HubSpot Elite partner) and consulting for clients teams via Hoekstra Multimedia. My stack is TypeScript + React/Next.js (primary) and Vue 3 (secondary). I also maintain legacy Angular when needed and automate CI/CD on Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.

Technologies & platforms I ship with:

React
Next.js
TypeScript
Vue 3
Angular
Tailwind
Storybook
Jest
WordPress
Contentful
HubSpot
Azure DevOps
GitHub
Bitbucket
Vercel
Netlify

Beyond code, I coach junior devs, facilitate Scrum rituals, and translate product ideas into shipped features. Empathy, clear communication, and a dash of aviation‑nerd curiosity keep teams moving forward.

Have a performance bottleneck, a tricky integration, or an MVP to launch? Let’s connect!