A story about the birds and the bee

Hi, I'm Bram

Most people call me Bee and I'm a creative problem solver.

My goal is to reduce friction on the web and make useful experiences, to put a spotlight on those deserving, to uplift, and to share.

If you enjoy what I do and want to support me you can buy bee some nectar.

I'm multilingual — I speak Dutch, English, and German.

The rolling "r" in Bram can be hard to pronounce, which led to my nickname (securi)bee.

While I might be most known for my involvement in numerous inclusive communities, and sharing curated lists, I started out as a web developer.

Web development

I enjoy building static websites, single page- and universal web applications — focusing on user experience, performance, and security.

I've been responsible for building numerous MVP applications using REST API following the CRUD cycle. These were all build with Ruby on Rails.

Using Bash, Rake, and Node.js I've built automation, bots, and serverless functions.

Figma is my tool of choice for almost all of my design work. Designing a website however, takes place directly in the browser. I've been doing that for a while and with the arrival of TailwindCSS it's gotten even better.

For the last several years, I've been building a lot with Shopify and the Jamstack. Both are a joy to work with, straightforward, without many abstractions.

The "J" in Jamstack has been represented by Vue.js and the framework Nuxt.js, and more recently Eleventy, which you're looking at right now. For the latter I use Alpine.js to sprinkle in behavior as I see fit.

Web security

I started doing bug bounties, a year after being introduced to information security, in 2019. During that time I gathered as many bug bounty resources that I could find, surrounded myself with peers and mentors, and took a special interest in recon.

I've since been able to help numerous companies resolve severe vulnerabilities.

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Disclosure

What helped my progress tremendously is all of the amazing web security content, creators put out. Being involved in the bug bounty and the Twitch community really emphasized to me that knowledge is meant to be shared.

This prompted me to start sharing more myself. It started with my curated bug bounty Twitter list and has since grown, with the latest addition being the Hive Five security newsletter.

I also became involved in several inclusive communities. This led to me being asked by NahamSec to help build his community, Hacker101, and administrate numerous online conferences.