I’m Vincent Twigt, a detail-oriented and systems-minded web developer and technical consultant who loves connecting different disciplines to see the whole picture.
I’m Vincent Twigt, a detail-oriented and systems-minded web developer and technical consultant who loves connecting different disciplines to see the whole picture. I dive into the details, make considered and future-proof choices, and keep learning fast—especially when a project demands new frameworks, tools, or approaches.
I enjoy collaborating across development, communications, and management, bringing openness, sharpness, unexpected angles, and a dash of humor. My work is grounded in strong DevOps and infrastructure experience, with a clear preference for open-source and privacy-respecting solutions—delivering projects from design through production while staying flexible enough to move wherever the work needs me.
Responsive landing page designed in Figma and built as a custom Jekyll theme, compatible with GitHub Pages hosting and automatic deployment. Clean, lightweight, and maintenance-free by design, with no CMS overhead or hosting costs. Built for the SS-NES research project as part of my work with the Netherlands eScience Center.
To display projects and software items from a remote directory, I was asked to develop an open source custom WordPress plugin (built with Vite, Babel, ESLint, LightningCSS) to use on their website, designed for reuse by other organizations and publicly available on GitHub. The WordPress plugin retrieves and displays data using a remote API, and allows for client side searching and filtering of results.
The ADORE.software website was made from scratch: new logo and branding colors, new design from wireframing to completion. The layout was converted into a custom WordPress theme, with custom blocks to simplify content editing for the client as much as possible. The website contains several subtle and elegant solutions for visual effects (transparent menu, based on scroll position), form styling and implementation and automatic translation. Starting point for a 1.5-year technical partnership with the Netherlands eScience Center, a national research institution with 50+ developers on staff.
Sole technical partner for a national research center. Resolved 30+ issues, reduced page weight by over 1MB per request, and became the go-to contact for web decisions at 25–35% lower cost than the previous agency. Built ADORE.software from scratch (branding, design, full implementation), and developed an open-source WordPress plugin (rsd-wordpress) integrating the Research Software Directory REST API into WordPress with clean OOP architecture. Designed and built the SS-NES website with Jekyll and GitHub Pages, handled hosting migration, set up staging, replaced Google Analytics with Matomo, created documentation, and built custom WordPress blocks for the communications team.
Managed 20–30 CentOS Linux servers, handled support tickets, responded to critical security incidents, and evolved infrastructure from manual management to Ansible. Worked with Zenoss and Icinga for monitoring, performed proactive server hardening and security patching, and supported migration planning. Known for transparent and reliable communication.
Worked on an early Dutch live chat platform with clients including Wehkamp and ABN Amro. Redesigned a table-based layout to semantic CSS and achieved 50%+ performance gains. Introduced version control (Subversion) and championed cross-browser development in a team that originally targeted older IE versions only (IE 5.5/6).
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