Karel De Smet
Lecturer at House of HR
Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolKarel De Smet is a front-end developer and lecturer based in Kortrijk with eight years of experience bridging digital marketing and software engineering. He teaches JavaScript and web development at Arteveldehogeschool while working in industry roles that emphasize clean, testable front-end code (Angular, TypeScript) and practical QA automation. His open-source contributions include expanding unit test coverage for the Hoppscotch API testing tool, reflecting a strong focus on software reliability and developer tooling. Karel has a track record of improving code health, onboarding processes, and cross-border product support for globally used applications, and he enjoys translating real-world product needs into teachable lessons for students from diverse backgrounds.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Business administration - Marketing, Bachelor Business administration - Marketing at HOGENTBlockchain Developer & Architect, Blockchain Developer & Architect at HOWEST Hogeschool West-VlaanderenPostgraduaat Digitale Marketing en Communicatie, Postgraduaat Digitale Marketing en Communicatie at EHSAL Management School
English, French, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
unit-testing10
javascript10
mstest10
testing10
testkit10
teste10
jestjs10
ui-testing10
api-testing10
test-automation10
rest-api7
hyperledger-composer6
database6
angular6
api6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hoppscotch/hoppscotch
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io (open-source alternative to Postman, Insomnia)
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 12 commits, 5 PRs in 20 days
Contributions summary:Karel primarily focused on adding and maintaining unit tests for the Hoppscotch API testing tool. Their contributions included developing tests for new assertion methods like `toHaveLength` and `toBeType`, as well as tests for existing functions such as `toBe`, `toHaveProperty`, and `toBeLevelxxx`. The user's work involved writing test cases for both positive and negative assertions, covering various scenarios and data types to ensure the reliability of the testing framework.
api-testingdeveloper-toolspwavuetesting-tools
carlos-ds/awesome-uses
Apr 2020 - Mar 2025
A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software and configs.
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 11 months
gearconfigssetups
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