Kenneth Verhelpen
Head Of Design at Sortlist
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Verhelpen is Head of Design at Sortlist with eight years of experience shaping product, brand, and design systems into cohesive, user-first ecosystems. He blends a strong front-end craft—React, Next.js, Storybook and Tailwind—with a background in motion and graphic design, allowing him to translate cinematic aesthetics and game-inspired interactivity into polished digital experiences. At Sortlist he scales design rituals and cross-functional collaboration to make design a strategic growth lever, while continuously evolving component libraries and tooling. A technophile who experiments with AI, Kenneth draws uncommon inspiration from horror cinema and gaming to create playful, immersive interfaces that balance minimalism with emotional impact. Based in Brussels, he combines entrepreneurial roots as a co‑founder with deep studio and production skills from earlier motion design work.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree 2D/3D Animation Special Effects Script-writing Audiovisual Production, Master's degree 2D/3D Animation Special Effects Script-writing Audiovisual Production at Institut des Arts de DiffusionBachelor's degree Digital Arts 2D/3D Animation Illustration Story-boarding Script-writing, Bachelor's degree Digital Arts 2D/3D Animation Illustration Story-boarding Script-writing at ESA Saint-Luc Bruxelles
English, French, Spanish, Dutch
Github Skills (3)
tilt6
react5
javascript3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
KennethVerhelpen/tiltshop
Aug 2020 - Sep 2024
A curated list of the best items for movies, tv-shows and video games lovers.
Contributions:48 PRs, 171 pushes, 49 branches in 4 years 1 month
moviesgamestv-showstiltjavascript
KennethVerhelpen/Tilt-shop
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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