Jens Arps

Senior-Frontent-Developer and consultant

Hi, I am Jens, a German, living in Portugal. I am a Javascript-Expert and highly experienced in several buzzword-items like Scrum, bla and bla. But what you will love me even more for are my soft skills (and my humour).

Contact

Jacascript

15 years of specialisation

HTML5 & CSS

no frontend without those two buddys!

Web GL

Is it still a thing?

Soft Skill: Empathy

I am highly empathic and can directly see in your soul!

Soft Skill: Mediaton

As a longterm freelancer I can see the economic factor as well as the develepors passion and know how to combine them

Softskill: German thoroughness

I will find the smallest bug!

About

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Hi, I am Jens Arps.

I was born and raised in Germany and after studing several things at university while being self-employed as a PHP-Developer, I felt in love with Javascript in 2003 – which is more than 20 years ago, while Javascript was mainly for building cooler contactforms.

After being hired from Uxebu, who has been one of *the* companies for Javascript in this time, I got in touch with the real cool Javascript-Nerds and became one of them, with developing the dojo-toolkit and being a speaker at the JS Conf in Berlin.

Back to freelancing in 2012 and being part of really cool projects, where I would love to tell the world what fancy and state of the art projects I made with my collegues – but one thing about fancy projects for big players is that you usually have to sign a contract of stillschweigen, so no chance to show off with this…

I love freelancing, but in April 2022 another company was interesting enough to get me on board on so I started working for adblock.

And with big changes comes more big changes, and so I left the german rain behind and Portugal. And I love it here!

And here comes the 2025 Update: I am back on the market!