Jeroen Vervaeke
Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolJeroen Vervaeke is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cross-platform applications and shipping production runtime features at scale, currently working at MongoDB in Dublin. He has deep .NET, TypeScript and C++ roots from roles ranging from full-stack developer to Chief Software Architect, delivering mobile, web, desktop and wearable solutions and leading engineering teams. At AWS he drove .NET runtime releases for Lambda and owned complex customer escalations and internal automation, demonstrating a blend of product judgment and operational rigor. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved TypeScript defs in the prominent DefinitelyTyped repo (notably react-navigation) and tidies codebases for long-term maintainability. His background in computer vision (UGent thesis work used in a commercial product) and long-term volunteer software efforts hint at a pragmatic engineer who prioritizes usable, impactful systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Secondair diploma Industriële informatica, Secondair diploma Industriële informatica at VTI kortrijkMaster of Science in de industriële wetenschappen Elektronica-ICT: multimedia en informatietechnologie major future media, Master of Science in de industriële wetenschappen Elektronica-ICT: multimedia en informatietechnologie major future media at Ghent UniversityBachelor in de Toegepaste informatica Applicatie-ontwikkeling, Bachelor in de Toegepaste informatica Applicatie-ontwikkeling at Katholieke Hogeschool Zuid-West-Vlaanderen
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Github Skills (15)
type-system10
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
typescripts10
type-definition10
react-navigation10
react10
typescript-types10
json6
opencv6
rust6
javascript6
jquery6
visual-studio6
serde6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Dec 2016 - Aug 2019
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 6 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeroen primarily contributed to the `react-navigation` type definitions within the DefinitelyTyped repository. Their work involved improving and refactoring the `DrawerItems` component, including adjustments to props and overall structure. Additionally, they performed code cleanup tasks such as removing trailing whitespace and merging upstream changes, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintenance. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to text options within the `pdfkit` definition.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
mongodb/mongodb-atlas-local
Mar 2024 - Mar 2024
MongoDB Atlas Local Development Docker Image
Contributions:47 reviews, 7 PRs, 71 pushes in 10 days
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