Joris Aerts is a Senior Software Engineer and Architect with 12+ years building robust Java backends and modern TypeScript/Vue frontends, currently consulting at Graviton. He specializes in clean architecture, separation of concerns and developer experience, and has deep practical experience with code generation engines that produced large parts of a fintech codebase. Equally comfortable with vanilla Java streams and Optionals as with TSX-driven Vue apps, he also designs and maintains Node.js monorepos and build pipelines for scalable teams. As a former team lead and scrum master he blends hands-on implementation with architecture and delivery ownership, including exporting large datasets and evolving REST services. A pragmatic polyglot, he’s contributed back-end parsing improvements to open-source user-agent tooling, reflecting attention to detail in real-world production parsing and testing.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
IT, IT at autodidact
VISO / Higro Gent
HOWEST Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Information Technology, Information Technology at CVO Lokeren
Utilities for processing user-agent strings. Can be used to handle http requests in real-time or to analyze log files.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Joris's contributions focused on enhancing the project's user-agent parsing capabilities. They added support for parsing various Opera and Chrome browser versions by modifying the `Browser.java` file, which likely involves regular expressions and pattern matching for user-agent string analysis. The user also updated the related unit tests within `BrowserTest.java` to include the newly supported browser versions and to verify the correct parsing behavior. These changes expanded the project's ability to identify and categorize different web browsers.
Contributions:13 releases, 170 PRs, 429 pushes in 7 months
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Joris Aerts - Senior Software Engineer Architect at Graviton