Julien Biezemans
Senior Software Engineer at JBpro's Interactive
Wavre, Walloon Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolJulien Biezemans is a senior software engineer and entrepreneur with over two decades of hands-on experience and 16 years in professional software roles, currently focused on developer tooling and engineering at Kosli while leading Cucumber.js as a core team member. He co-founded Cucumber Ltd, built Cucumber.js, and helped scale the project through acquisition by SmartBear, where he later managed an engineering team of about 12 people. A pragmatic perfectionist, he blends Agile, BDD, DDD and event-sourcing practices with functional JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js expertise to help teams deliver reliable systems. Julien is an experienced trainer and coach who enjoys mentoring engineers and improving organizational practices across Europe and beyond. His open-source contributions to the widely used cucumber/cucumber-js project include important fixes and features for asynchronous step handling and data table processing, reflecting a deep focus on testability and developer experience. Based in Wavre, Belgium, he pairs technical craftsmanship with a people-first mindset and a long history of shipping both product and platform-level improvements.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Economics & computer science, Economics & computer science at Université catholique de LouvainComputer science (network orientation), Computer science (network orientation) at Haute Ecole de BruxellesEconomics & computer science, Economics & computer science at Université de Namur
English, French, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
cucumber10
javascript10
test-automation10
nodejs9
unit-testing9
stub6
gherkin6
jasmine6
automated-tests6
gruntjs6
ruby-on-rails6
bdd6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cucumber/cucumber-js
May 2011 - Jan 2021
Cucumber for JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end & QA Engineer
Back-end & QA EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 457 commits, 50 PRs in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Julien focused on enhancing the testing capabilities of the project by fixing asynchronous step definition callbacks and refactoring existing features. The user also added features related to data table processing including the interpretation of both raw arrays and hashes. Additionally, they were instrumental in handling scenarios related to various states such as pending, skipped, and undefined steps.
javascriptcucumbertypescript
AgileCampusTour/agilecampustour.org
Jan 2011 - Apr 2011
Contributions:37 commits in 2 months
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