Adri Van Houdt
Staff Engineer at Loctax
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolAdri Van Houdt is a Staff Engineer from Antwerp with 13 years of hands-on experience building JavaScript and Node.js systems, currently helping Loctax ship product features and mentor engineering teams. He blends full-stack pragmatism with a backend focus—contributing to core projects like hapi and Node.js where he improved CORS handling, auth plugins, and modernized code for maintainability. Prior to Loctax he spent eight years at Salesflare delivering product-facing engineering work and continuously improving developer experience. An active open-source contributor, Adri’s work spans framework-level fixes, auth integrations, and testing improvements, demonstrating an eye for robustness and clear error handling. Outside work he experiments with new tools, contributes to community learning projects, and is an avid snowboarder—bringing curiosity and a low-ego, improvement-driven mindset to engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in Applied Computer Science, Software Management, Bachelor in Applied Computer Science, Software Management at Karel de Grote' Hogeschool Antwerpen
English, French, Dutch
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Github Skills (26)
application-framework10
javascript10
website-development10
testing10
app-framework10
hapi10
http10
software-quality10
web-framework10
nodejs10
refactoring10
oauth10
application10
apidoc9
front-end-development9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
outmoded/university
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Community learning experiment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 385 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Adri primarily worked on establishing a basic server using the Hapi.js framework. They implemented a version endpoint and later refactored the code by moving handler functions and configurations. The user also introduced error handling using Hoek, integrated authorization with hapi-auth-basic, and added testing components. Further changes involved refactoring and correcting code formatting.
hapihapijs
hapijs/bell
Aug 2015 - Mar 2019
Third-party login plugin for hapi
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 23 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Adri primarily contributed to the hapi-bell project by fixing bugs, enhancing the codebase, and improving its overall functionality. They addressed linting issues, added new features for runtime provider parameters, and updated the Google profile mapping, demonstrating a good understanding of the project's architecture and various third-party login providers. The user also updated dependencies and improved existing test coverage to ensure the project's maintainability. These changes demonstrate a focus on code quality, feature enhancement, and bug fixes.
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