Ir Hove
Independent Python Software Developer (Business Owner) at WVH Consulting
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolIr Hove is an independent Python software developer and business owner based in Ghent with 17 years of professional experience and a programming career dating to the early 2000s. He has delivered Python-focused architecture, data engineering and DevOps solutions across pharmaceuticals, energy trading, telecoms and academia for clients like UCB, Cognite and Proximus. Comfortable as a hands-on freelancer, he blends legacy Plone/CMF expertise with modern data science and production engineering practices. His background in civil engineering and knowledge & information management gives him a systems-minded approach to complex problems and data workflows. Founder of the Belgian OpenCourseWare initiative early in his career, he brings an entrepreneurial streak and long-term commitment to open technologies. He maintains an active professional presence via LinkedIn and GitHub, reflecting steady consultancy engagements and practical open-source orientation.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Civil Engineering Engineering Physics, Civil Engineering Engineering Physics at Ghent UniversityASO Latin - Mathematics, ASO Latin - Mathematics at Sint-Franciscus College WetterenCorporate Management Performance CPM BI Datawarehousing Analytical Intelligence Change management, Corporate Management Performance CPM BI Datawarehousing Analytical Intelligence Change management at EHSAL Management School
English, Dutch, French, German
Github Skills (200)
bots10
linter10
wkhtmltopdf10
dotenv10
edi10
environment-variables10
endpoint10
package-manager10
reportlab10
python10
converting10
pypdf10
stylelint10
tooltips10
html-pdf10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bots-edi/bots
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
Bots EDI Translator
Contributions:72 commits, 13 PRs, 47 pushes in 2 months
translatorbotsedi
libranet/autoread-dotenv
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Autoread the .env-file for in-project virtualenvs
Contributions:33 PRs, 132 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
dotenvsitecustomize
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