Eric Kok
Solutions Architect VRT NWS & Sporza (via IT Licious)
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolEric Kok is a solutions architect and senior mobile engineer with 16 years of experience translating research-grade thinking into production-grade apps and architectures. He holds a PhD in AI and has a track record replacing legacy systems and building high-scale consumer apps—especially Android and Flutter—serving millions of users while maintaining top user satisfaction. At VRT he shapes scalable news and sports platforms that handle million+ visitor peaks, and as a consultant he helps teams balance rapid innovation with long-term quality. He leads Android quality and framework efforts (previously at KBC and Ezeeworld), driving security hardening, testing, and architectural improvements across large codebases. An active open-source maintainer under 2312 development, he contributes to projects across Android, Flutter and Kotlin (including flutter_html and Koin), with practical fixes from null-safety migrations to rendering and caching bugs. Known for turning technically challenging ideas into polished features, he combines academic rigor with hands-on UI/UX craft and a taste for brewing better software (and beer).
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Artificial Intelligence at Utrecht UniversityBSc Information and Communication Technology, BSc Information and Communication Technology at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English, French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
kotlin10
interceptor10
widgets10
flutter-apps10
testing10
css10
ui-design10
android-development10
html10
http-caching10
flutter-game10
dart10
dependency-injection10
flutter10
ssl9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
erickok/transdroid
Dec 2011 - Nov 2022
Manage your torrents from your Android device
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:29 releases, 20 reviews, 612 commits in 11 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on the development of UI elements within the Android mobile application. This is evident from the commits that involve layout adjustments, bug fixes related to layouts, and changes in the visual design. Furthermore, the user contributed by adding a setting for auto-refresh.
torrentstransmissionandroidtorrentandroid-device
Sub6Resources/flutter_html
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
A Flutter widget for rendering static html as Flutter widgets (Will render over 80 different html tags!)
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 203 reviews, 266 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the development of the Flutter HTML rendering widget, focusing on improving its capabilities and visual correctness. Their work involved fixing rendering issues related to image and video elements within tables, integrating features like text transforms, and ensuring accurate rendering of HTML elements. They also addressed bug fixes and implemented features such as handling of inline elements and support for the `ruby` tag.
flutter-widgetsrenderflutter-packagewidgetdart
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