Ben Vaassen
Forecaster at Belastingdienst
Arnhem-Nijmegen Region Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Vaassen is a pragmatic forecaster and technical support leader with 9 years of experience bridging customer-facing support and operational forecasting in the Netherlands. Trained in Artificial Intelligence and Informatics at Radboud University, he brings a methodical, data-informed approach to prioritization and decision-making while remaining able to act quickly when situations demand. His background includes leading technical support and workforce management at Yoast and hands-on helpdesk and project work with web platforms like WordPress and Magento, giving him broad technical fluency and empathy for end users. Colleagues describe him as calm, positive, and focused on solving problems efficiently—skills he leverages to translate complex technical issues into practical, prioritized actions. A detail-oriented learner, he thrives on the challenge of understanding systems holistically rather than just fixing individual tickets.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Artificial Intelligence and Informatics at Radboud University
English, Dutch
Github Skills (42)
seo10
wordpress10
metadata10
plugin10
schema-org10
php10
yoast10
wordpress-plugin10
meta-tags10
structured-data10
xml-sitemap10
opengraph10
render8
snippet8
sitemap-xml8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
benvaassen/wordpress-seo
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
wordpressyoastwordpress-pluginyoast-seoseo
Yoast/wordpress-seo
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Yoast SEO for WordPress
Contributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 1 push in 5 months
breadcrumbsschema-orgwordpressphpxml-sitemap
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