Chris Langhout
Software Engineer at bol
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Langhout is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building production-grade systems at bol from Rotterdam. He combines a Master’s in Computer Science from Delft with hands-on full-stack work, notably contributing UI and feature enhancements to Backstage’s popular open-source developer portal—improving cost insights and adding configurable thresholds. Comfortable across front-end and back-end concerns, he pairs pragmatic refactoring and unit testing with thoughtful UI improvements. An entrepreneurial streak shows in founding Landien, and his GitHub bio hints at a playful, collaborative approach to version control and code review. Colleagues can expect a developer who balances craftsmanship with measurable product impact.
11 years of coding experience
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English
Github Skills (12)
portal10
backstage10
typescript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
javascript9
unit-testing9
kubernetes4
kubernetes-pods4
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 11 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the cost insights plugin within the Backstage framework. Their contributions involved implementing a configurable engineer threshold feature, which impacted multiple components, including the `useConfig`, `CostGrowth`, and `CostGrowthIndicator` files. The user also made changes related to UI improvements and refactoring of code. The user's work included adding and modifying unit tests to incorporate the new features.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
clanghout/CTab-Page
Dec 2019 - Jul 2023
custom tab page
Contributions:2 reviews, 22 PRs, 41 pushes in 3 years 7 months
chrome-extension
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