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 (32)
doctrine10
fork10
cms9
symfony-component9
symfony9
php9
micro-framework8
react7
twig6
jwt6
overriding6
microkernel6
bundle6
rich-text-editor5
medium-editor5
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/symfony-micro
Dec 2015 - Dec 2017
Use Symfony as a microframework.
Contributions:6 releases, 35 commits, 1 PR in 2 years
micro-frameworksymfonymicrokernelsymfony-micro
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