Speaker Introduction – Bramus Van Damme
We have met late, concerning how long he and I are swimming in the same water (is that a goo metaphor?), but we finally met at some point and I found out what a nice chap Bramus Van Damme is. He this type of person in the web community who doesn’t just follow where the platform is going. He helps steering it. And now I am very happy to welcome him to beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2026.
I surely have been following Bramus’s work for a while. His name popped up whenever something genuinely exciting lands in CSS. But let me introduce him to you, in case you don’t know him.
A Love Affair with the Web since 1997
Bramus is a web developer from Belgium who discovered view-source at the age of 14. That was 1997. Nearly thirty years later, the curiosity sparked by peeking behind a webpage hasn’t gone anywhere. His blog, bram.us, has been running since 2001. It is a technical, geeky weblog that is very much a living record of someone who never stopped tinkering.
Before joining Google, he worked as a freelance developer across frontend and backend roles and spent seven years as a College Lecturer in Web & Mobile, teaching undergrad students HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Inside the Platform
Today Bramus is part of the Chrome Developer Relations team at Google, where he focuses on CSS, Web UI, and DevTools. But his role goes further than that. He is one of the driving forces behind View Transitions, Scroll-Driven Animations, Anchor Positioning, and CSS Custom Functions and he is a member of the CSS Working Group.
His role in Developer Relations is essentially that of a translator. He collects the needs of web developers, gathered from surveys and conferences, back to the Chrome engineering teams. That kind of bridge work is harder and rarer these days.
He builds demos, writes deep-dive articles, speaks at conferences around the world, and just this week published the view-transitions-toolkit, a package of utility functions he has been distilling from years of practical work with the API.
When he’s not doing any of that, he goes scuba diving. In 2017 he became a certified PADI Divemaster.
His Talk “Supercharge Web UX with View Transitions”
Clunky page loads and jarring navigation are a thing of the past. Bramus will show you how the View Transitions API brings smooth, native-app-like experiences to both single- and multi-page web apps by using the CSS and JavaScript you already know. Whether you are new to the API or have been experimenting with it for a while, this is a talk worth being in the room for.