Benjamin Boer
Head Of Product at Framer
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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RockstarBenjamin Boer is Head of Product at Framer in Amsterdam with 10 years of experience building tools that let creatives express ideas interactively. He blends product leadership with hands‑on front‑end engineering, progressing from Product Designer to Product Team Lead and now Head of Product since 2014. Benjamin continues to ship code—contributing to Framer’s core UI and test suites (fixing slider calculations and text layer font behavior) and to the motion animation library where he refined tap, pan and hover gestures. His work pairs UX sensibility with engineering rigor to deliver performant, test-covered features. He focuses on empowering creative workflows through developer-friendly, interactive design tooling.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (13)
animations10
javascript10
javascripts10
coffeescript10
animation10
react10
testing10
typescript-types9
ui-design9
typescript29
typescript9
typescript39
typescripts9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
koenbok/Framer
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
Framer - Design Everything
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 10 PRs, 187 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the Framer repository by modifying the user interface components and testing frameworks. Their work includes fixing slider calculations within the SliderComponent and formatting code. They also made significant changes to the TextLayer component, including default font implementations and various tests for inferred properties. The changes included code modifications and adjustments in the testing suite, focusing on fonts.
everythingreactcssdesignframer
motiondivision/motion
Mar 2019 - Jul 2022
A modern animation library for React and JavaScript
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on enhancing the motion animation library. Their contributions involve updating and refining gesture-based functionalities, particularly tap, pan, and hover interactions. They updated existing code examples, ensuring consistency and correct usage of gesture-related properties within the library's framework. The changes also incorporate more modern example formats.
reactanimationproduction-readyreactjsgesture
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