Gert Sallaerts
Product Manager at Ambassify
Houthalen-Helchteren, Limburg, Belgium
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Top SchoolGert Sallaerts is a Product Manager and former senior full-stack engineer with 13 years of experience building advocacy and engagement platforms at Ambassify. Based in Limburg, Belgium, he blends hands-on development chops with product strategy, having moved from senior engineering into product leadership while staying involved in technical delivery. He’s known for a pragmatic, slightly gruff engineering persona that translates into clear prioritization and robust, developer-friendly solutions. His background includes end-to-end web application work at BuboBox and a formal education in computer software engineering and computer science. At Ambassify he focuses on advocacy product features that bridge user experience and backend reliability, often rolling up his sleeves to ship key improvements himself. Colleagues value his directness, deep institutional knowledge of the platform, and knack for turning ambiguous requirements into measurable product outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Hasselt UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Hogeschool PXL
Github Skills (200)
smarty10
grav-plugin10
github-app10
neo4j10
prestashop-module10
fonts10
fetch10
symfony10
css10
expo10
php10
content-management10
contao10
frontend10
cms10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ambassify/shiro
Jul 2018 - Nov 2019
Shiro permission checks in Node.JS
Contributions:25 commits, 6 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 4 months
shironode-jssecuritypermissionnodejs
GertSallaerts/ws-transform-stream
Feb 2019 - Jul 2021
Node.JS websocket Transform stream implementation
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 5 months
websocketstransformnode-jsjavascriptwebrtc
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