Joris Debonnet
Owner at FLXION
Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolJoris Debonnet is a seasoned software engineer and founder with over a decade of professional experience and a Master’s in Computer Science from Ghent University. As owner of Funky Development and co-founder/CTO of FunkyTime, he combines hands-on web application engineering with product ownership and Odoo implementation. He has led engineering teams at FLXION and served as CTO at INOA, bringing practical leadership to both startups and SMEs. An active back-end contributor to the Silverstripe framework, he has improved core database field types, file support and test suites for a widely used PHP MVC CMS. Based in Flanders, Belgium, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with long-term commitments to impact projects—such as building collaboration platforms for reforestation NGO work—demonstrating a strong civic and communications sensibility alongside his technical craft.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Ghent UniversityOnze-Lieve-Vrouw van Vlaanderen, Kortrijk
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
jquery10
testing10
keyboard10
php10
web-framework10
database-design9
data-structures8
data-structure8
fileio8
file-operations8
filesystem8
keybindings6
phpstorm6
tcpdf6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
silverstripe/silverstripe-framework
May 2014 - Sep 2019
Silverstripe Framework, the MVC framework that powers Silverstripe CMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 29 PRs, 106 comments in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Joris primarily contributed to the Silverstripe Framework's back-end functionality by modifying core classes and implementing features. Their commits involved enhancing database field types, specifically integrating the `NoHTML` function, adjusting database field sizes, and adding support for new file types. They also worked on fixing bugs related to forms and image handling, improving the framework's export functionality, and improving various test suites.
cmsphppowersframeworksilverstripe
JorisDebonnet/silverstripe-framework
Feb 2015 - Sep 2019
SilverStripe Framework, the MVC framework that powers SilverStripe CMS
Contributions:2 PRs, 62 pushes, 55 branches in 4 years 8 months
cmsphppowersframeworksilverstripe
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