Fabien Franzen
Owner at Atelier Fabien
Limburg, Belgium
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Top SchoolFabien Franzen is a multidisciplinary designer-developer and founder with 18 years of experience blending craftsmanship, product design and backend engineering from his Atelier Fabien in Limburg, Belgium. He runs several ventures—Atelier Fabien, Ensomono and Modomono—where he combines hands-on fabrication, digital design/fabrication workshops and commercial product lines. Technically fluent in backend systems, Fabien has contributed to prominent open-source projects such as LoopBack and the MongoDB connector, improving relation handling, ObjectID robustness and query operators for real-world integrations. His practice emphasizes layered, material-aware solutions where visual and technical refinement are balanced, reflecting training across product, jewellery and graphic design. Known for evolving specialities rather than fixed skillsets, he pairs studio-led creativity with pragmatic software engineering to turn complex ideas into tangible, well-executed outcomes.
18 years of coding experience
Graphic Design, Graphic Design at Katholieke Hogeschool LimburgArtistieke Opleiding, Artistieke Opleiding at Kunstschool GenkGraphic and Product Design (Product Presentation), Graphic and Product Design (Product Presentation) at Fontys University of Applied SciencesProduct and Jewellery Design, Product and Jewellery Design at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences
English, German, Dutch
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Github Skills (32)
dependency-management10
api-rest10
javascript10
object-mapping10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
rubygems10
testing10
data-modeling10
command-line-interface10
mongodb-database10
ruby10
api10
orm10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
loopbackio/loopback-connector-mongodb
Jul 2015 - Oct 2016
The official MongoDB connector for the LoopBack framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:20 commits, 6 PRs, 30 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Fabien focused on enhancing the MongoDB connector for the LoopBack framework. Their work included implementing features to allow extended operators within database queries and updates. The user also improved the handling of ObjectIDs within the connector, ensuring proper conversion and use in various scenarios. Several commits also addressed potential race conditions and improved the robustness of the connector.
loopbackconnectorloopback4nodejsmongodb
strongloop/loopback
Jul 2014 - Mar 2015
LoopBack makes it easy to build modern applications that require complex integrations.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 157 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Fabien contributed to the LoopBack framework by implementing and testing various features related to data modeling and REST API generation. Their work focused on extending the framework's capabilities to support different relation types, specifically `embedsMany`, `referencesMany`, and `hasOne`. The commits include integration tests that validate the correct behavior of these relation types, including CRUD operations and filtering. Additionally, they added the ability to customize the paths for relations.
apirequireloopbackdependency-injectionintegrations
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