Joost Kersjes

Hi! I'm Joost Kersjes, currently working at Awareways as the Frontend Lead.

Professionally, I aim to build spotless user experiences. Here are some of the tools, languages and frameworks I love working with:

My interests

PC gaming, lots of games, to name a few:
- Most often World of Warcarft
- My all-time favourite game is art of rally
- Competitive games with friends e.g. Marvel Rivals
I watch every Formula 1 race (go Verstappen! go Williams!)
Watching my friends stream games (their Twitch channel)
Making pizza from scratch (try my recipe)
League of Legends Esports (go G2!)
Building LEGO Technic cars:
- McLaren Formula 1™
- Lamborghini Sián

My career so far

Awareways / 2021 - present

I joined Awareways at the very start of development for the Wave learning platform which we ended up launching in 2022. As a fun side-project, I also got to host the Awarecast podcast.

While being mentored by Miguel Bento, which I'm very thankful for, I got to develop my skills in Vue.js, TypeScript, Cypress, Storybook, WCAG, Sass and Docker. It grew me in to a knowledgeble and well-rounded expert.

After Awareways parted ways with Miguel in 2024, I took up the role of Frontend Lead, eventually hiring Cláudia Oliveira to help contribute to our frontend projects. While building our new Awareways website in 2025 I grew fond of working with Astro.

I'm still working to improve my soft skills as a leader and a coach, but it is very motivating to have more responsibilities and I'm very excited for what the future holds for me at Awareways!

Spotler (f.k.a. Webpower) / 2019 - 2021

During my software development college education I had two internships with Webpower. I started working there part-time in 2019 and then full-time after I graduated in 2020.

At Webpower I discovered my passion for frontend development and learned what it takes to build high-quality user experiences. My work mainly involved writing custom PHP scripts to process data, but working on the 'flow builder' frontend application with React (JS) was what I enjoyed the most.

After Webpower was aquired by Spotler Group in 2021, our team went through restructuring which made me think about my professional future. I started looking for a company that aligned with my values and would give me an opportunity to develop my frontend development expertise further. I found that at Awareways.