Frans De Jonge
Front-end Developer Streaming Engineer at Clevercast
Antwerp Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolFrans De Jonge is a Front-end Developer and Streaming Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience, currently building streaming front-ends at Clevercast from Antwerp. He combines strong UI craftsmanship with backend plumbing, contributing full-stack fixes and features to projects like KOReader and RSS-Bridge that improve media handling and feed generation. His open-source work spans front-end UX improvements (image viewers, responsive menus) and practical backend integrations, plus notable i18n contributions to FreshRSS that show attention to global user experience. Trained as a magna cum laude linguist at the University of Antwerp, he brings a linguistics-informed approach to localization, clarity and user-facing copy. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex streaming and media requirements into robust, user-centric interfaces and resilient parsing logic. He’s equally comfortable debugging low-level file handling as he is refining translations and accessibility details that often get overlooked.
13 years of coding experience
Master’s Degree, Linguistics and literature: English-Dutch, Magna cum laude, Master’s Degree, Linguistics and literature: English-Dutch, Magna cum laude at University of Antwerp
English, Dutch, dutch, middle (ca.1050-1350), German, French
Github Skills (29)
ux-design10
rss10
javascript10
epub10
rails-i18n10
internationalization10
user-interface10
qtwebengine10
ui-design10
interface-design10
php10
localization10
ember-i18n10
front-end-development10
html10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
koreader/koreader
Oct 2014 - Jan 2023
An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:87 releases, 3106 reviews, 1097 commits in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Frans primarily contributed to the KOReader project by implementing and refactoring user interface components. Their work focused on enhancing the user experience by adding features such as the ability to select the book cover as a screensaver and adding more options. Additionally, the user implemented code to support various features like showing the table of contents or handling the main menu. The user also worked on the backend to handle different media file types.
ebookkobocbzpdf-reflowdjvu
FreshRSS/FreshRSS
May 2016 - Sep 2022
A free, self-hostable news aggregator…
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:788 reviews, 68 commits, 132 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Frans primarily focused on internationalization (i18n) efforts within the FreshRSS project. They translated and updated numerous Dutch language strings within multiple PHP files, including configuration, installation, and feedback-related areas. Additionally, the user addressed minor grammatical issues and style inconsistencies in the Dutch translation and also added translations in a few other languages. This work demonstrates a focus on making the application accessible to a wider audience.
rssrss-readerphprss-aggregatornews-aggregator
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.