Koen Vinken
Software Engineer at In The Pocket
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolKoen Vinken is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native applications and integrations from Ghent, Belgium. He currently architects and implements backend services at In The Pocket that power user-facing experiences and enable data intelligence. His background spans full-stack web development across Symfony, Fork CMS and custom internal frameworks from roles at Tagz, Duke & Grace and earlier retail and agency work. Curious by nature, Koen experiments with emerging tech outside work—particularly augmented reality and virtual assistants—which informs creative approaches to product problems. He combines pragmatic engineering with a marketer’s sensibility from his marketing studies, helping translate business goals into maintainable technical solutions. Known for steady, long-term contributions, he bridges integration-heavy systems and user-centric outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Web, Bachelor Web at Grafische en Digitale MediaBachelor's degree Marketing, Bachelor's degree Marketing at Marketingcommunicatie
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
fork10
doctrine9
php9
symfony8
cms8
signature7
bundle7
symfony-bundle7
react7
infrastructure6
twig6
medium6
overriding6
jwt6
microkernel6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ikoene/Marvel-API-client
Sep 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:6 releases, 9 commits, 27 pushes in 7 months
ikoene/fork-cms-theme-bootstrap
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 1 month
bootstrap4cmscssfirst-stepsfork-cms
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