Elio Struyf
Founder at BIWUG
Beveren, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolElio Struyf is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 12+ years building developer tools, Microsoft 365 solutions, and API-focused experiences across Europe. He combines hands-on front-end and full-stack development (notably contributions to popular PnP/SPFx controls and a VS Code CMS extension) with strategic roles as an Engineering Lead, Solutions Architect, and DevTools lead at RapidAPI. An eight-time Microsoft MVP, GitHub Star and multi-year Microsoft 365 influencer, Elio is equally at home shipping production CI/CD pipelines and speaking at conferences from Barcelona to Stockholm. He has founded multiple ventures—including Struyf Consulting, Squarl and EngageTime—applying product instincts to improve event engagement and developer workflows. Known for driving extensibility and automation, he’s delivered widely adopted tooling (including a VS Code client that reached hundreds of thousands of installs) and regularly blends R&D in OpenAI and Microsoft Graph into practical solutions. Based in Belgium, he pairs technical depth with community leadership as VP/President of BIWUG and a frequent conference speaker.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master Master of Science Electronics-ICT, Master Master of Science Electronics-ICT at Hogeschool Antwerpen
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (38)
markdown10
content-management-system10
javascript10
spfx10
microsoft10
ui-components10
sharepoint-framework10
typescript10
sharepoint10
ui-design10
uid10
markdown-it10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
office-ui-fabric-react10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
pnp/sp-dev-fx-property-controls
Sep 2017 - Dec 2021
Reusable SPFx property pane controls - Open source initiative
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:46 releases, 1 review, 372 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Elio's primary contribution was the initial implementation of property pane controls for the SPFx framework. The commits showcase the development of a DateTimePicker control, including UI components for hours, minutes, and seconds, as well as the core logic for date selection and time formatting. Furthermore, the user incorporated styling with a module stylesheet. The user also added the logic for an enabled property for the date time picker.
spfxinitiativepanereusable
estruyf/vscode-front-matter
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Front Matter is a CMS running straight in Visual Studio Code. Can be used with static site generators like Hugo, Jekyll, Hexo, NextJs, Gatsby, and many more...
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:76 releases, 2 reviews, 1133 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Elio primarily contributed to the documentation and UI of the Front Matter CMS, running straight in VS Code. Their work involved updates to the components, including text fields, the list and markdown renderers. They also added support for a more customizable experience by adding code that allows for dynamic injection and retrieval of information into the UI.
cmsstatic-sitehugofront-mattercontent-management-system
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