Frank Van Wijgerden
Founding Partner at KeySafe-Cloud
South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Van Wijgerden is a founding partner and seasoned software engineer with 12+ years of hands-on experience building cloud-based web and API services, and over two decades of expertise in NATO research, systems integration, and operational command-and-control systems. He co-founded KeySafe-Cloud to bridge Mobility-as-a-Service platforms with electronic lock manufacturers, and previously worked at Fox-IT analyzing web and mobile traffic to detect fraud and support investigations. His background spans embedded and IoT work, Bluetooth and RFID contributions, and significant open-source involvement improving libraries like Bleak, Bleach, Faker and Moment. Frank blends deep domain knowledge in logistics, medical and joint military systems with pragmatic product delivery and a knack for turning large, noisy datasets into meaningful detection rules and tooling. Based in South Holland, he combines entrepreneurial leadership with an uncommon mix of defense-grade systems engineering and consumer-facing cloud product development.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
CT, CT at Nyenrode Business UniversiteitHAVO, HAVO at Alberdingk Thijm CollegeBachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Hogeschool van Utrecht
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (45)
babel610
unit-testing10
data-generation10
javascript10
c-language10
lib10
rails-i18n10
python10
testing10
bluetooth-le10
rfid10
google-app-engine10
faker10
flask-ask10
asyncio10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gae-init/gae-init
Nov 2013 - Apr 2022
Google App Engine based on Python, Flask, RESTful, Bootstrap and tons of other cool features
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:138 commits, 82 PRs, 162 comments in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily focused on improving the user interface and backend functionality of the Google App Engine application. Their contributions included updating templates for better readability and reflecting changes in the underlying data model, modifying user list layouts for improved clarity, and addressing minor typos and generalisations of user interface elements. Furthermore, the user updated the project's dependencies, including a migration to Bootstrap 3.0.3 and UglifyJS2, indicating a focus on both frontend and backend improvements.
google-apppythonapp-enginerestfulflask
joke2k/faker
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you.
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:52 commits, 1 comment in 9 days
Contributions summary:Frank's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the `faker` library's support for the Dutch language. They improved the generation of Dutch names, adjusted naming conventions, and implemented Dutch social security number (BSN) generation. Additionally, they corrected typos and made PEP8 and other general code style improvements.
pythontest-datatestingdummy-datadataset
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