Jef Willems
Civic Hacker at Hogeschool Gent
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolJef Willems is a civic hacker and web developer based in Ghent with a decade of experience building public-facing digital services and blockchain experiments for local government. He has blended roles at District09, Digipolis and Lab9k, where he worked on projects such as SCORE and developed Ethereum token solutions for the city of Ghent, combining civic impact with hands-on engineering. Comfortable across web stacks and public-sector constraints, he brings practitioner knowledge from both municipal programs and grassroots initiatives. Jef’s background also includes leadership and community roles—chairing a photography collective and teaching youth—which informs his collaborative, user-focused approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at HOGENT
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (195)
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http10
websocket10
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infrastructure10
dx10
rest-api10
microservices10
api10
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developer-tools10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
lab9k/score
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:59 commits, 47 pushes in 24 days
lab9k/apiapi
Sep 2019 - Jan 2022
Combine multiple api responses to a single data model
Contributions:122 commits, 21 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 years 4 months
api-gatewayapicombineapi-mappingresponse-mapping
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