Jonathan Beliën
Technicien IT Confirmé at OpenStreetMap Belgium
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
Summary
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RockstarJonathan Beliën is an experienced IT technician and full‑stack web developer based in Brussels with over 11 years in hands-on software and infrastructure roles. He balances a steady professional position at Egov Select with long-running freelance web development, bringing practical solutions from server-side logic to user-facing features. An active open-source contributor, he has strengthened the popular geocoder-php library by improving Nominatim reverse-geocoding and test coverage, showing attention to interoperability and code quality. Beyond coding, he serves on the board of OpenStreetMap Belgium, reflecting a sustained interest in geospatial data and community-driven projects. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem solving, meticulous backend work, and a willingness to collaborate across public-sector and volunteer initiatives.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
php10
api10
apidoc10
geocoder10
testing9
openstreetmap9
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
geocoder-php/Geocoder
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
The most featured Geocoder library written in PHP.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 124 reviews, 123 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on improving the Nominatim provider, a core component of the Geocoder library. Their contributions included adding and checking new fields for the Nominatim model and fixing reverse geocoding functionality. Furthermore, the user addressed code style issues and incorporated suggestions from other contributors. These changes involved modifications to the Nominatim provider code and associated tests.
geocoderphp
geo6/overlay-image-preview
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:7 releases, 48 PRs, 73 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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