Carlo Palinckx
Engineering Manager at Basic-Fit
Etten-Leur, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolCarlo Palinckx is an Engineering Manager with a decade of experience building and maintaining large-scale web and native systems, currently leading a 19-person customer-facing team at Basic-Fit. He combines hands-on frontend and API expertise with site reliability and security stewardship—previously setting SLOs, squashing 1.2K vulnerabilities, and driving CDN/WAF and pentest improvements. A former engineering lead and senior frontend developer, he has shipped revenue-driving features like configurable campaign APIs and mission-critical payment rewrites while institutionalizing incident playbooks and observability. Carlo is also an active open-source contributor, improving TypeScript and React-Apollo integrations in a widely used GraphQL code generator. Chronically optimistic and focused on multiplying team impact, he blends product-minded engineering with practical operational rigor.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
HBO Webdesign, HBO Webdesign at NCOI OpleidingenApplicatieontwikkeling, Applicatieontwikkeling at radius college breda
French, Dutch, English
Github Skills (18)
code-generator10
typescript10
wpgraphql10
apollo-client10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
graphql10
typescripts10
react10
testing9
documentation9
javascript8
angular4
javas3
android3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dotansimha/graphql-code-generator
Sep 2019 - Aug 2020
A tool for generating code based on a GraphQL schema and GraphQL operations (query/mutation/subscription), with flexible support for custom plugins.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 27 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Carlo primarily contributed to enhancing the TypeScript and React-Apollo integration within the project. They focused on generating docblocks for hooks, adding configuration options for docblock generation, and addressing incorrect enum type generation. Furthermore, the user added support for the `@deprecated` directive, improving the code's documentation capabilities. These contributions involved modifications to TypeScript files, test files, and plugin configurations.
subscriptionmutationflexiblequeryreact
MyOnlineStore/bricks
Mar 2018 - Nov 2022
🧱 MyOnlineStore's react component library
Contributions:54 releases, 174 reviews, 430 commits in 4 years 8 months
react-componentreactstyled-componentsstorybookreact-component-library
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