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My name is Dimitrie Hoekstra (with an “e” at the end and pronounced correctly with emphasis on any syllable), I am a technical Senior Product Designer working on DevOps-related products, Design Systems, and Open Source projects.

Formerly, working on Design Systems at Postman, Product Designer at GitLab. I am Dutch 🇳🇱, currently live in Spain, Barcelona 🇪🇸, and frequent Amsterdam 🇳🇱 and Berlin 🇩🇪.

This document is my personal README, a place for you to get to know me, how I think, work, and communicate. Reading this will make it easier to work together with me effectively!

Hierarchy

Occasionally, values can contradict each other. For instance, transparency would dictate we publish all security vulnerabilities the moment they are found, but this would jeopardise our users. It’s useful to keep in mind this hierarchy to resolve confusion about what to do in a specific circumstance while remaining consistent with our core values.

Think of the hierarchy as a weighting system. Values higher in the hierarchy do not automatically override values lower in the hierarchy. Here are some examples:


Conditions I like to work in

The times/hours I like to work

My spoken languages

Feel free to speak to me in any of the following languages, though I prefer speaking in English for professional topics!

<aside> 🇺🇸 English (Full Professional / C)

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<aside> 🇳🇱 Dutch (Native / C)

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<aside> 🇪🇸 Spanish (A progressing into B)

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<aside> 🇩🇪 German (A)

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The best way for us to communicate

Communicating feedback

Things I need

How I learn best

Things I struggle with

These are things for me to improve myself but good to be mindful of as a team member.

Things I love

Office setup's

Default workplace

When primarily working remotely from one place I have invested in optimizing that space to be able to effectively work and communicate.

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On the go

When primarily working remotely from one place I have invested in optimizing that space to be able to effectively work and communicate. Below is a list of the current equipment I use:

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Other things to know about me