Herman Verschooten
Company Owner at Octarion
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolHerman Verschooten is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and hands-on engineer with over 12 years of professional experience and a programming journey that began with BASIC and Z80 assembler as a preteen. As founder of Octarion and long-time technical lead at GratWiFi and Hotspot Service Benelux, he designs and manages wireless networks, datacenter servers, and end-to-end technical solutions for clients. Comfortable across decades of tech—from mainframes and BGP to .NET, Ruby and currently Elixir—he treats code as a creative medium, preferring elegant, practical solutions. His background running IT support firms and managing complex infrastructure gives him both customer-facing delivery skills and low-level networking chops. Based in Antwerp, he combines entrepreneurial leadership with a lifelong curiosity for emerging technologies and a preference for building systems that just work.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
A1, Informatica, A1, Informatica at Sint-Lodewijksinstituut Antwerpen
English, French, German, Dutch
Stackoverflow
85reputation
3kreached
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2questions
Github Skills (200)
liveview10
otp10
signature10
data-mapping10
gleam10
accessory10
realtime10
homekit10
distributed-computing10
elixir10
beam9
simplify9
compose9
charts9
api9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Hermanverschooten/elixir-pdf
Sep 2019 - Sep 2024
An attempt to get a nice API for PDF generation in Elixir
Contributions:36 pushes, 24 branches in 5 years
apielixirpdfpdf-generation
Hermanverschooten/watchit.orig
Dec 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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