Benjamin Vertonghen
Freelance Web Developer Founder at Append IT
Aalst, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Vertonghen is a freelance web developer and founder with a decade of hands-on experience building C# and ASP.NET Core applications and teaching software development and relational databases at HoGent. He combines practical enterprise experience—from system administration and COBOL/SAS work at KBC to engineering roles at Lansweeper—with modern web architecture and Azure-integrated diagnostics contributions in a notable open-source healthchecks project. As a lecturer he translates complex topics like DB2/SQL Server internals and software design into curriculum and real-world guidance for students and clients alike. His practice includes architecting solutions for clients such as Flores.nl and Microsoft while running his agency Append IT. Benjamin holds a BASc in Computer Engineering and is pursuing an MSc in Software Engineering, reflecting a commitment to both teaching and continuous technical growth. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, detail-oriented, and comfortable moving between legacy mainframe stacks and contemporary cloud-native tooling.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Accounting & Informatics, Informatics, Accounting & Informatics, Informatics at Sint-Maarten InsituutBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering at Hogeschool Gent (HoGent)Master of Science - MSc, Software Engineering, Master of Science - MSc, Software Engineering at Open UniversiteitBachelor of Education (BEd), Computer Science, Bachelor of Education (BEd), Computer Science at Artevelde Hogeschool Gent
English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (8)
health-check10
unit-testing10
azure-blob-storage10
asp-net-core10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
azure-table-storage10
cloud-storage9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Xabaril/AspNetCore.Diagnostics.HealthChecks
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Enterprise HealthChecks for ASP.NET Core Diagnostics Package
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Benjamin focused on implementing Azure Storage health checks within the ASP.NET Core diagnostics package. They added support for Azure Blob Storage, Azure Queue Storage, and Azure Table Storage, along with corresponding unit tests. The contributions involved writing code to integrate with Azure Storage services and verifying functionality. They also performed minor refactoring to improve test naming conventions.
healthcheckasphealthchecksasp-netnet-core
WEBAPPLICATIES1/10slBootstrap
Nov 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 years 1 month
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