Frederik Heyninck
Owner & Co-founder at Figure8 Webdesign
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolFrederik Heyninck is a seasoned web developer and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building design-driven web products as owner and co-founder of Figure8 since 2007. He blends front-end craftsmanship (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, usability) with XML, Actionscript and print/graphic design sensibilities, having started as a freelancer and taught CSS/XHTML at Arteveldehogeschool. A pragmatic full-stack contributor to open source—most notably improving Fork CMS installer flow, fixing XSS issues and accessibility bugs—he focuses on maintainability and secure, accessible UIs. Based in Ghent, he pairs agency-level client delivery with hands-on coding, often surfacing subtle UX and template override improvements that streamline long-term site maintenance.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
ArteveldehogeschoolProfessional bachelor in Graphical and Digital media, Multimedia Production, Professional bachelor in Graphical and Digital media, Multimedia Production at Artevelde Hogeschool Gent
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Github Skills (16)
cms10
php10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
template-engine9
front-end-development9
templater9
xss8
css7
html7
javascript7
e-mail6
uiimageview6
cocoa-touch6
iphone6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
forkcms/forkcms
Jan 2012 - Oct 2020
Fork is an easy to use open source CMS using Symfony Components.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:54 commits, 22 PRs, 36 comments in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Frederik made a variety of contributions, primarily focused on enhancing the Fork CMS installation process and frontend templates. These changes include adding functionality to the installer for specific debug email addresses, modifying the frontend template modifiers to allow template overrides for navigation elements, and fixing XSS vulnerabilities in the backend. The user also addressed accessibility issues and refactored the codebase for improved maintainability. Additionally, the user updated the composer message for clarity and added some minor code style fixes.
cmsphpsymfony-bundleforkcmsfork-cms
freshface/forkcms
Jul 2018 - Oct 2020
Fork is an easy to use open source CMS using Symfony Components.
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
cmsphpsymfony-bundlesymfony
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