Arnold Van Hofwegen
Docent HBO-ICT at Hanzehogeschool Groningen / Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Top SchoolArnold Van Hofwegen is an experienced software engineer and HBO-ICT lecturer based in Groningen with 14+ years of professional experience evolving from mainframe COBOL systems to modern web stacks and backend engineering. He combines deep expertise in COBOL, Oracle SQL/PLSQL and legacy system migrations with hands-on skills in PHP, JavaScript, MySQL and familiarities in Java, C/C++, and multiple operating systems. His career spans universities, large financial institutions and niche industry players, giving him a rare mix of application development, functional/application management and migration experience across complex organisations. As a teacher and former senior backend engineer he excels at translating technical detail into clear operational solutions and mentoring colleagues and students. Arnold prefers work with national or international significance and is known for approaching new languages and environments pragmatically, learning what’s needed to deliver results.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoc, Mathematics, Postdoc, Mathematics at University of Groningen
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
333reputation
6kreached
11answers
3questions
Github Skills (39)
programming-language10
dataflow-programming10
system-programming10
reactive10
scripting10
cross-platform10
interpreter10
scripting-language10
red10
rebol10
code-documentation10
toolchain10
compiler10
native-code10
reactive-programming10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
r3n/ren-c
Jun 2019 - Oct 2022
Library for embedding a Rebol interpreter into C codebases
Contributions:2 PRs, 73 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 4 months
interpreterembeddingrebolemacs-packages
freered/red
May 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
zero-installcompilerprogramming-languagereactivescripting
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