Jorgen Evens
Data Protection Officer
Diest, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolJorgen Evens is a pragmatic full-stack engineer and Data Protection Officer with 13 years of experience building scalable web platforms and running production systems from Belgium. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing asynchronous rendering and performance improvements to the twig.js templating engine and front-end refinements to react-avatar—with product-minded senior development at Ambassify and his own consultancy. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs web, networking and hosting expertise with practical security and privacy stewardship. Notably, his open-source work shows a pattern of tackling async complexity and UX edge cases, reflecting a knack for making distributed systems both reliable and user-friendly.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at KTA1 HasseltMaster Computer Science, Databases / Computer networks, Master Computer Science, Databases / Computer networks at Universiteit HasseltNew Media and Communications Technology, Web, .NET development and Computer Networks, New Media and Communications Technology, Web, .NET development and Computer Networks at Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen - Vlaamse Autonome Hogeschool
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Github Skills (13)
asynchronous10
javascript10
twig10
performance-optimization10
templating10
react10
es6-promise10
async10
functional-programming9
css9
props8
prop8
nodejs6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ambassify/react-avatar
Feb 2016 - Aug 2022
Universal avatar makes it possible to fetch/generate an avatar based on the information you have about that user.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:32 releases, 6 reviews, 182 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jorgen primarily focused on the development of React components for the `react-avatar` repository. Their commits involved refactoring the code to use a lowercase `md5` module, adding support for Twitter handles to the demo application, and incorporating various styling and unit size adjustments. Furthermore, the user implemented features to configure the display and styling of the avatars.
avatarfetchtypescriptprofile-picture
twigjs/twig.js
Mar 2017 - May 2019
JS implementation of the Twig Templating Language
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 30 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jorgen significantly enhanced the `twig.js` library by implementing asynchronous rendering capabilities for functions and filters. They refactored core logic to handle asynchronous operations, including parsing expressions and managing control structures within the templating engine. Furthermore, they improved rendering performance through optimizations in promise handling and code refactoring, while also adding the 'with' tag for broader templating capabilities. The contributions involved code modifications across various modules, including logic parsing and core rendering functionalities.
jstemplatingtwigtwigjs
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