Hi there, I'm Dorien 👋

I'm a frontend engineer and open source contributor with a deep love for accessibility, community tech, and digital autonomy.

🌍 What I Do

• 🏳️‍🌈 Creator of Queer Calendar: an open source calendar for LGBTQIA+ events, built without Big Tech.
• 🧱 Platform developer at Sculpture Network: giving sculpture artists a digital home for their portfolios.
• 🧪 Prototype tinkerer: I build Cities DAO — exploring new ways of organizing cities.
• 🎓 Teacher @ HvA: I guide students in the Associate Degree Frontend Development & Design to build accessible, user-first, and progressive web platforms.
• 🤝 Volunteer @ Share Network: I teach frontend skills to refugees who are starting a new chapter in tech.
• ➕ Contributor to Zotonic - Open source CMS based on the Erlang language

💚 Values

I care deeply about:

• Accessibility by default
• Open source collaboration
• Privacy friendly tools and platforms
• Designing large and complex content structures with clarity
• Teaching the next generation of web engineers with care and curiosity
• Empowering queer and marginalized communities through the web

🧠 Tech Stack

🐹 Fun Facts

I live with three adorable guinea pigs

I do a lot of volunteer work in tech education and in the queer community

I ❤️ well-structured content and semantic HTML

🙌 Support My Work

If you'd like to support my open source work (like Queer Calendar), you can:

💖 Become a GitHub Sponsor 🙏 Or just spread the word and share the things I make!

Thanks for stopping by!