Davy V is an experienced IT project coordinator and full-stack web developer with 15 years in Belgium’s public and private sectors, currently coordinating IT projects for Gemeente Maldegem. He combines practical backend skills in PHP, MySQL and SOAP with frontend expertise in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and automation knowledge across PowerShell, MDT and Azure/Microsoft365. His career includes long-term application maintenance in COBOL at Jetair and web development roles at agencies like Wijs, demonstrating comfort moving between legacy systems and modern stacks. As an open-source contributor to the popular ForkCMS project, he has improved both backend logic and frontend features, including cross-browser fixes and social sharing enhancements. Colleagues value his pragmatic approach to refactoring and query optimization that yields measurable stability and performance gains. He brings a mix of hands-on coding, operational tooling and municipal IT governance experience that helps bridge developer teams and stakeholders.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Applied Information Technology, Bachelor, Applied Information Technology at HOWEST Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
primary, Primary school, primary, Primary school at Vrije Basisschool Zomergem
secondary school, Economics - Mathematics, secondary school, Economics - Mathematics at Sint-Vincentius college Eeklo
Fork is an easy to use open source CMS using Symfony Components.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Davy primarily contributed to bug fixes, including resolving issues with float comparisons and the handling of file uploads. They refactored code in the FAQ module, optimizing database queries and improving the `isAllowed` function. Additionally, the user introduced enhancements to the frontend, such as expanding the social sharing menu with Pinterest integration and addressing a Safari-specific language redirect problem. These changes span both backend and frontend code, demonstrating a full-stack focus.
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