Laurens de Voogd
Merksem
Summary
Experienced and dedicated full stack developer proficient in frontend technologies such as React, Angular, and mobile development, as well as backend technologies including Node.js, Express.js, NestJS, and PostgreSQL. Proven track record in building web platforms for start-ups and enterprises, handling diverse functionalities like invoicing, billing, statistics, appointment planning, and customer reviews. Strong focus on delivering high-quality code and optimal user experiences, passionate about driving innovation and achieving outstanding results as a full stack developer.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Freelance - Full Stack Development
Self Employed
11.2024 - Current
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
- Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
Web development, sales, administration
Cetem Containers NV
10.2023 - Current
- Creating a container webshop ontop of the already existing website.
- Increasing sales through various channels (LinkedIn, google ads, creating customer prospect lists)
- Communication with customers.
- Purchasing containers and accessories from suppliers.
- Inspecting containers at the depot for damage and authorizing repairs.
- Arranging container transport with various transport companies.
- Creating invoices and container-related documents.
- Improving website + on-site SEO.
- Tracking of sales & profits through different channels.
Promo Development - Software Engineer
Pàu - Telenet
07.2023 - 09.2023
- Worked on configuring various cross-sell and upsell promotions for a variety of Telenet products (e.g. telenet tv, mobile subscriptions, …).
- Wrote unit tests for promotion configurations.
Full stack developer
Pàu
04.2023 - 06.2023
- Empleo is an essential CV tool utilized by all employees within Pàu, designed to streamline the creation, updating, and exporting of CVs.
- Sales and HR teams rely on this tool to efficiently search through employee profiles and quickly identify the best candidates for job openings.
- To breathe new life into this project after a three-year development hiatus, I took on the challenge of revitalizing this project.
- I modernized it with the latest technologies and significantly enhanced the local development experience by incorporating Docker to streamline setup processes.
- Additionally, I automated deployment workflows using Git and GitHub Actions, which greatly improved efficiency and eliminated compatibility issues.
Frontend developer
Pàu - Multimasters
08.2022 - 03.2023
- MultiDesk is the customer portal from MultiMasters.
- Pàu was commissioned to rebuild the current portal from scratch.
- The project heavily relies on a design system built with design tokens.
- Designers can easily create and/or modify tokens and publish them to the project.
- I was responsible for creating various pages / UI elements.
- The entire project was managed with Git and used Github Actions to be deployed to our servers.
Front end developer
Pàu - Wuyts
01.2022 - 06.2022
- At Wuyts I was part of a small team responsible for maintaining and creating components in a component library for use in a modular in-house webshop template system and also making new features for the back office application that handles sales / jobs for machining products.
Developer
Pàu - Arvesta
07.2021 - 12.2021
- At Arvesta I was part of a test and learn process in a team of about 12 people in preparation for a unified online shopping platform for all of Arvesta's subsidiaries starting in 2022.
- Together with one lead and one other front end developer I was responsible for creating several landing pages connected to a magento (php) backend for the eurotuin website to test user engagement.
- The biggest project I did for eurotuin was creating a mini webshop from scratch using Next.js (server side rendering) hosted with docker for local development and kubernetes for production.
Full stack developer
Pàu - WDP
12.2020 - 07.2021
- This project is a front & back office application for managing WDP Warehouses and providing customers with information such as invoices / documents / energy consumption / facility management etc.
- Within the team is was responsible for creating the CRUD of the application including data synchronization between their REST api as well as creating a modern frontend application.
- Together with the team we succeeded in providing testable and maintainable code.
Design System - Developer
Pàu - VRT
11.2020 - 12.2020
- As part of a small team I was responsible for helping kickstart a multi-brand Design system along with a set of reusable components to use for their mobile app development flow.
Webmaster
Pàu - Collishop
01.2020 - 11.2020
- Company Overview: Colruyt Group
- As part of a small campaign team at Collishop (Colruyt Group) as Webmaster, I am responsible for a variety of tasks such as creative design for various media outlets, sending out weekly email letters to customers, creating content pages for their website, and improving the mailing template used for creating customer emails.
- Regarding the email campaigns, we used acoustic as a marketing automation tool to send out those emails.
- Colruyt Group
Full stack developer
Beego
09.2018 - 10.2019
- Mobile/web app development in ionic angular (app for students to book/view/handle payment (of) appointments, + platform for dispatch to book appointments + administration, statistics) + back-end in Nodejs hosted on heroku.
- Several things I accomplished at Beego: implementation of pushnotifications.
- Creating a review system for customers + custom webpage to view reviews.
- Sortable table component with custom alters for dynamic data.
- Interactive Zipcode map of Flanders.
Skills
- Front-end: HTML, CSS, Javascript, React, Angular, Redux Toolkit
- Backend: Nodejs, NestJS, TypeORM, PostgreSQL, Git, Jest, Docker, Typescript, CI/CD, Linux, C#
- Friendly, positive attitude
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Problem-solving
Languages
Dutch
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Advanced (C1)
French
Intermediate (B1)
Education Courses
- Toegepaste Informatica, Karel de Grote Hogeschool, 09/2016 - 07/2018
- Diploma Secundair, Kantoor at Heilig hart van Maria, 09/2014 - 06/2016
Hobbies and Interests
- Fitness
- Bouldering
- Gaming
- Programming
- MTG
Timeline
Freelance - Full Stack Development
Self Employed
11.2024 - Current
Web development, sales, administration
Cetem Containers NV
10.2023 - Current
Promo Development - Software Engineer
Pàu - Telenet
07.2023 - 09.2023
Full stack developer
Pàu
04.2023 - 06.2023
Frontend developer
Pàu - Multimasters
08.2022 - 03.2023
Front end developer
Pàu - Wuyts
01.2022 - 06.2022
Developer
Pàu - Arvesta
07.2021 - 12.2021
Full stack developer
Pàu - WDP
12.2020 - 07.2021
Design System - Developer
Pàu - VRT
11.2020 - 12.2020
Webmaster
Pàu - Collishop
01.2020 - 11.2020
Full stack developer
Beego
09.2018 - 10.2019
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