Ignace Maes
Co-Founder & CTO at Ember.js
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolIgnace Maes is a Dutch-speaking Belgian software engineer and startup CTO with 11 years of experience building delightful digital products and leading engineering teams. As Co-Founder & CTO of Squire and a member of the Ember.js Core Team, he blends product-minded leadership with deep front-end expertise, having driven TypeScript adoption and platform initiatives at Lighthouse. He’s an active open-source contributor—helping extend Ember CLI to support new file formats and authoring a Material Design skin for .NET WinForms with animated controls and theming. Comfortable across the full stack (JavaScript, Python, some Go, and C#), he pairs hands-on implementation with strategic work such as M&A technical merges and automated testing visions. Based in Ghent, he repeatedly translates UX sensibilities into robust engineering solutions and enjoys turning UI polish into measurable user value.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Applied Informatics: Application Development, Bachelor's degree Applied Informatics: Application Development at Karel de Grote-HogeschoolMaster of Science Information Engineering Technology, Master of Science Information Engineering Technology at Ghent UniversityIT Management, IT Management at Vrije Handelsschool Broeders
Dutch, English, French
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
typescript10
ember-cli10
ui-design10
material-design10
uid10
emberjs10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
dotnet-core10
theme-development10
typescripts10
csharp10
testing9
php-framework9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
IgnaceMaes/MaterialSkin
Dec 2014 - Dec 2019
Theming .NET WinForms, C# or VB.Net, to Google's Material Design Principles.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 103 commits, 25 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Ignace appears to be primarily focused on UI/UX development within the .NET WinForms MaterialSkin project. They contributed to the initial publishing of the project with basic layout and control implementation. The user then implemented support for light and dark themes. They added new controls and features, including a MaterialLabel, MaterialDivider, and a MaterialContextMenuStrip. Finally, they made animated single-line text fields and radio buttons.
design-principlesdotnetprinciplesnet-winformsc-sharp
ember-cli/ember-cli
Jun 2023 - Oct 2024
The Ember.js command line utility.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ignace primarily contributed to the `ember-cli/ember-cli` repository by implementing support for `.gts` files within the blueprint system. They added functionality to transform and remove types from `.gts` files, along with related testing. Their work involved modifying the blueprint model, adding new methods for handling different file types, and updating test suites to accommodate the changes. The user's contributions demonstrate a focus on extending the capabilities of Ember CLI to support newer file formats.
ember-clijavascriptcommand-line-utilityemberember-js
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