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Project
Freelance Developer at client project
Build a 3d editor webapp for healthcare startup
Pet-Project
Experiment
Explore cloudflare and svelte-kit
Project
Freelance Developer at client project
Content marketing website/blog
Pet-Project
Blog v4
Migrate existing blog to new stack, while migrating evernote to obsidian
Project
Freelance Developer at client project
Chat-gpt wrapper webapp for psycho-therapy startup
Position
Freelance Software Developer at TjenWellens.eu
- Dec 2023
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Freelance client projects
Training
ThoughtWorks TLDP (Tech Lead Development Programme)
ThoughtWorks training program for those selected to become Lead Grade. Tech Lead is responsible for: (1) engage with the team, (2) architecture & infrastructure, (3) delivery & risk, (4) engaging with the business
Project
Senior Consultant at Atom Bank
Organizational transformation to speed up software delivery.
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Pet-Project
Babylon Bank
Webapp to automate bank transaction inspired by Book: The Richest Man of Babylon
Pet-Project
Built on Open Source Project
script to parse standard notes to regular markdown
Project
Senior Consultant at NHM
Build a new data platform for the Natural History Museum to accelerate the biodiversity monitoring.
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Training
Crucial Conversations
Training about the book: Crucial Conversations
Training
Architecture: The Hard Parts - Neal Ford & Mark Richards
Training about the book: Training about the Book: Architecture: The Hard Parts
Project
Tech Lead at IT/OPS automation project
automate laptop configuration based on staffing information
Project
Senior Consultant at client project
Integrate new hardware with in-store servers.
Position
- Apr 2021
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- Sep 2023
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- 3.5 years
Multiple client projects: retail, energy, finance
Pet-Project
Blog v3
The limitations of postachio started to become too constraining for my blog/wiki. After reaching out to them and getting no reply, I decided to build it myself. Inspired by Thoughtworks Radar’s ‘headless CMS’ (eg. contentful) ‘JAMstack’ (eg. gatsby)
Pet-Project
Evernote to Contentful
Get evernote notes into contentful CMS. Inspired by Thoughtworks Radar’s ‘headless CMS’ and mention of ‘contentful’.
Project
zero downtime DNS migration
zero downtime ‘refactoring’ of domain name (DNS etc)
Project
Mindmark.it at tjenwellens.eu
Highlight in online articles while reading, saved online, and review the automatically built mindmap!
Training
Advanced Distributed Systems Design (ADSD) by Udi Dahan
Week long training on modern architecture design practices for distributed systems with Service-Oriented Architecture that will change the way you think about designing software systems.
Pet-Project
StudyBooks
predecessor of mindmark
Project
Developer at TomTom
Centralized Config portal for multiple services. REST integration for in and output.
Pet-Project
Blog v2
Postach.io let’s you create a blog straight from evernote!
Project
Developer at TomTom
Tool for measuring the quality of the map.
Project
Developer at TomTom
Speed up manual map edits by building a task specific webapp.
Pet-Project
Astroids in Elm
I wanted to learn elm, so after learning the basics, I built a small game
Training
The Leadership Gift Programme (TLGP) by Christopher Avery
Year-long training about applying the Responsibility Process to take 100% responsibility for everything that happens in your life.
Project
Developer at TomTom
Machine learning pipeline to detect errors in the map
Project
Developer at TomTom
Migrate very-legacy C codebase into less-legacy codebase, integrate WMS into plex app, apply ‘golden master’ refactoring technique to safely start changing the codebase and start applying TDD for further changes, visualize Big Data
Position
Software Engineer at TomTom
- Dec 2016
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- Mar 2021
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- 6 years
various projects in multiple teams.
Project
Backend Developer at VIAA
Build a website for the Flemish institute for archiving (VIAA)
Position
- Jul 2016
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- Jul 2016
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- 1 month
Open summer of code provides software development internships for students during summer holidays. Groups of students work on open source projects.
Project
Android Developer at In The Pocket
Investigation into locking tablets to a single app so they can be used for demo purposes.
Project
Android Developer at In The Pocket
Brussels Airlines App for the airport
Project
Android Developer at In The Pocket
Colruyt app for the grocery store chain
Position
- Feb 2016
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- May 2016
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- 4 months
Worked on multiple android apps.
Conference
Socrates BE 2015
A world-wide community of software developers that wants to build quality software. More than just working software. It’s amazing…
Meetup
Socrates Open Space
I finally attended the Software Crafting & Testing meetup in Ghent. Discussing software development with awesome people in the ‘open space’ format. This community of people is amazing, and worldwide!
Project
HoGent - blackjack
write a blackjack game algorithm in a group of students
Project
HoGent - Android app for client
Create a mobile & web app for an external customer in a group of students.
Project
HoGent - Seinfeld Habit Tracker (iOS app)
A habit tracker based on the Seinfeld method of not breaking the chain.
Project
HoGent - Boardgame
Write a boardgame with a team of students.
Conference
DevopsDays Belgium
My first openspace conference! Learned that Operations as a thing in software development, it’s not just building software!
Conference
The Guild of Software Artisans
My first software conference!
Project
Mobile Developer at TapCrowd
Researched the suitability of Titanium framework for cross-platform App development
Project
Freelance Developer at client project
Using web scraping to gather information on competitors.
Position
Freelance Software Developer at TjenWellens.eu
- Jan 2014
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- Dec 2016
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- 3 years
Client projects
Pet-Project
Automatic Study Combination Algorithm (ASCA)
Simultaneously attending courses from 2 schools isn’t easy! This program combined all lesson tables of all selected courses from 2 schools, to figure out a schedule so I can attend every course.
Meetup
Internet of Things Ghent
My first meetup, first of many!
Training
Startup Weekend Ghent
A fellow student and I participated in startup weekend. I learned about business model canvas, pitching, how software can earn money, iterating on business models, …
Pet-Project
Homeserver v1
old pc + old mobile phone + soldering iron = personal home server that boots when you send it a text
Project
Maxerva
A couple students got together to do a hackathon and build Maxerva. This ended up continuing after the hackathon. Maxerva was a desktop app to keep local files synced with the online learning platform of school.
Project
Time Tracker Android App at tjenwellens.eu
Personal time tracking app, android app, released on google play store!
Pet-Project
Blog v1
I launched my own website with a blog, to host the java applet from recipe writer
Conference
TEDxBrussels 2009
My first conference ever. My brother and I took the train to Brussels and attended the first TEDxBrussels conference. Today I learned, real life conferences are awesome!
Pet-Project
Game: MMORPG
Attempted (and failed MULTIPLE times) to build an entire MMORPG from scratch
Project
Recipe Writer
First time other people used my software!
Pet-Project
Game: Bounce
Duplicated a game I played on an old mobile phone
Milestone
Started learning to code
With my first allowance, I bought a book on learning how to code in java.