Anton Vancauwenberghe
Owner at Covan - People, Process & Project Interim Management
West Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolAnton Vancauwenberghe is an owner and strategic HR/organization consultant with 10 years of experience helping startups, scale-ups, family businesses and grown-ups across Belgium and neighboring markets optimize People, Process and Project outcomes. He leads Covan, providing interim HR management, audits, coaching and project delivery while also scouting SME investment opportunities. His background spans hands-on HR management, recruitment and project coordination for +50 FTE hires and multi-country engineering and software clients, giving him a rare blend of operational execution and strategic advising. Anton pairs this with creative entrepreneurship as co-owner of a bespoke furniture studio, reflecting a practical, maker-oriented mindset. He contributes to technical open-source back-end work—improving Laravel WebSockets’ pub/sub and Redis replication—which underscores his comfort with complex systems and code-driven problem solving. Based in West Flanders, he operates bilingually across BE/NL/FRA markets and regularly supports cross-border HR transformations.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Business administration / Bedrijfskunde / Business management / Bedrijfsmanagement (Marketing), Bachelor's degree Business administration / Bedrijfskunde / Business management / Bedrijfsmanagement (Marketing) at HOGENTBachelor's degree Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration General, Bachelor's degree Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration General at VIVES University of Applied SciencesErasmus: General Management, Erasmus: General Management at University of Limerick
English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (8)
php10
websocket10
backend10
pubsub10
laravel10
back-end-development10
laravel-mix10
redis9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
beyondcode/laravel-websockets
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Websockets for Laravel. Done right.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Anton primarily focused on refactoring and improving the backend implementation of the Laravel websockets project. Their contributions included code cleanup, refactoring of pub/sub code, and renaming components for better clarity. The user also worked on integrating and configuring the pub/sub replication using Redis, and resolved local variable issues within the service provider. Their work included modifications to core service providers and driver implementations.
websocketslaravel-echowebsocketpusherlaravel
deviouspk/larapi
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
A laravel api framework based on nwidart modules in combination with Auth0 and mongodb.
Contributions:39 PRs, 149 pushes, 23 branches in 6 months
laravel-apiapicombinationnwidart-modulesauthentication
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