Bas Van Den Broek
Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland
Summary
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RockstarBas Van Den Broek is a multidisciplinary software designer and developer with 11 years of experience who pairs hands-on engineering with formal legal training in Dutch civil and corporate law. Currently a full-time law student based in Locarno, he focuses on corporate, liability, and intellectual property matters while maintaining an active engineering practice across finance, automotive, gaming, and chemical sectors. He has contributed to notable open-source Swift projects like Moya and SwiftNIO, improving networking abstractions, accessibility, and code clarity for high-performance systems. Known as a troubleshooter and rapid technical scanner, he excels at automation migrations, embedded systems, mobile and GUI solutions, and unit testing. His international work footprint spans the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands Antilles, reflecting adaptability to varied legal and technical environments. Colleagues describe his output as a "good-idea goldmine"—often pragmatic, occasionally delightfully unnecessary, and reliably kind.
11 years of coding experience
English, Dutch, German, French, Swedish, Spanish, Papiamento, Italian
Github Skills (18)
accessibility10
asynchronous10
ios10
rxswift10
non-blocking10
async10
networking10
reactivecocoa10
event-driven10
swift10
refactoring10
apidoc9
ui-design9
swift-nio9
front-end-development9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Moya/Moya
Aug 2016 - Feb 2022
Network abstraction layer written in Swift.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 21 reviews, 350 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Bas contributed to the Swift-based network abstraction layer. Their work involved refactoring code related to RxSwift and ReactiveCocoa integrations, modifying code for Swift 3 compatibility, and standardizing variable naming conventions. They fixed documentation, typos, and added Markdown formatting. The user also made changes to the Endpoint and Plugin files, indicating work on the core functionality of the networking library.
swiftreactiveswiftrxswiftalamofirenetworking
GitHawkApp/GitHawk
Jun 2017 - Feb 2019
The (second) best iOS app for GitHub.
Role in this project:iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:131 commits, 135 PRs, 106 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Bas primarily focused on improving the accessibility of the GitHawk iOS application. They implemented accessibility labels and traits for various UI elements, including buttons, cells, and text views. Furthermore, the user added haptic feedback for error conditions and key user actions like marking notifications as read. Additional contributions included code cleanup and minor UI adjustments.
iosswiftios-appgithawk
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