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About me...

A few tidbits:

  • I’ve been working as a front-end developer for the past six years, building products for both B2C and B2B.
  • My journey into coding started with a year and a half of self-learning. This time was filled with perseverance, frustration, and plenty of "What am I doing?" moments.
  • Professionally, I’ve worked extensively with React and its evolving ecosystem, from (vanilla) Redux and class components to migrating codebases to hooks and TypeScript.
  • Web accessibility is something I care deeply about. With every project, I try to dig deeper and build things that are as inclusive and user-friendly as possible.
  • I also love branching out and experimenting. Lately, that means learning Go to build small tools that improve my dev workflow. And for the past three years, I’ve been using Vim (still a basic user, but editing this way makes me happy).

Work experience

  1. Senior Front-end Developer - Welcome to the Jungle

    From June 2023 to May 2025, I worked as a Senior Front-end Developer at Welcome to the Jungle, a platform that helps job seekers and employers connect with more transparency.

    • Led front-end development of two candidate-facing products: an application tracker and a job comparison tool using micro-frontend architecture.
    • Collaborated with product and design teams to build a sourcing tool from scratch, emphasizing performance, accessibility, and polished UX.
    • Led a small team of two, iterated based on user feedback, adding search filters and integrating a responsive card layout to present candidate info.
    • Improved test reliability by introducing Vitest and MSW, implemented parallel test execution on CircleCI, and maintained high code coverage.
    • Led accessibility improvements through targeted code reviews and internal knowledge-sharing demos.
    • React
    • Styled components
    • Typescript
    • Vite
    • @tanstack/react-query
    • Vitest
    • @testing-library/react

  2. Front-end Developer - Meilleurs Agents

    From October 2018 to December 2022, I worked as a Front-End Developer at Meilleurs Agents, where I contributed to building new products and improving existing ones.

    • Worked on the rework of Connect, a platform connecting sellers and real estate agencies, including developing an interactive map for intuitive zone selection.
    • Built responsive applications using React, TypeScript, and Redux, migrating to Redux Toolkit and React Testing Library for improved maintainability and testing reliability.
    • Mentored and onboarded new team members.
    • Ensured feature quality with Jest, React Testing Library, and Cypress, enhancing product stability.
    • Led the rebuild of the B2B app layout with an accessibility-first approach, focusing on the application menu, and created a guide on accessibility best practices as part of the accessibility guild.
    • React
    • JavaScript
    • SASS
    • Redux
    • Webpack
    • Jest
    • Cypress

Other projects

Pierre Coumans - Rare Books

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Hero section of the homepage where Pierre Coumans is written in large and bold letters. There is also a portion of a slideshow with current news about the bookshop.
  • Designed and coded the website from scratch.
  • Developed a custom WordPress theme using PHP templates, Sass for styling, and vanilla JavaScript.
  • Integrated WPML plugins for internationalization.
  • Integrated the website with MailChimp, enabling the website owner to build momentum with their newsletter and email campaigns.
  • Wordpress
  • HTML
  • SASS
  • JavaScript