Frank Groeneveld
Mede-eigenaar at Toolsfactory
Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolFrank Groeneveld is a hands-on co-owner and full‑stack developer with 12 years of experience building and operating production web applications, primarily in Ruby on Rails. He co-founded and ran Rails-focused agencies (Ivaldi, Webindie) and now helps businesses translate strategy into digital tools at Toolsfactory, combining product thinking (OGSM, business model canvas) with implementation and server management. His background includes security-focused software for the Dutch Defence Cyber Commando and practical PHP/Zend experience from enterprise projects, showing a blend of secure-by-design and pragmatic engineering. An active contributor to Rails-based projects (notably improvements to the Brimir helpdesk), he pays attention to UX refinements, internationalization, and maintainable refactors that ease long-term operations. Trained at TU Delft in Computer Science, he pairs academic rigor with entrepreneurial execution and a preference for solving real business problems end-to-end.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, Natuur en Techniek, VWO, Natuur en Techniek at RSG Hoeksche WaardTU Delft
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Github Skills (15)
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
erb9
html9
rspec8
testing8
mysql8
test-unit8
css7
javascript7
ajax6
devise6
zend-framework6
gtk6
abstract-syntax-tree6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
ivaldi/brimir
Oct 2013 - Dec 2018
Email helpdesk built using Ruby on Rails and Zurb Foundation
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 135 commits, 141 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Frank contributed significantly to the email helpdesk application, primarily focusing on backend and frontend improvements. They made style adjustments, removed unnecessary functionality related to the switch to TinyMCE, and refactored code related to replies and ticket creation. The user also implemented user interface changes, including adding translations and updating user settings.
ruby-on-railsrailsemailrubyfoundation
ivaldi/ansible-ruby
Apr 2015 - Jan 2019
Ansible module to install latest Ruby from sources on Debian based systems or packages on OpenBSD
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 9 months
sourcesansible-moduleansiblerubyopenbsd
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