Laurent Van Basselaere
Staff Engineer at Swile
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurent Van Basselaere is a Staff Engineer and seasoned founder with 12+ years building pragmatic, user-focused web platforms and teams from Brussels. He prefers simple, reliable technology and has repeatedly turned product ideas into businesses—founding Benki, Sharebox/1001Belges and Briq, the latter acquired by Swile where he later scaled engineering as Manager and now Staff Engineer. His hands-on background spans Java, JavaScript and full-stack work (including practical open-source contributions like extending the iban.js library), enabling him to bridge shipping product features with robust engineering practices. Known for favoring “boring” tech that works, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with discipline in execution and a preference for clear, efficient solutions.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Ingénierie informatique, Master's degree, Ingénierie informatique at Université catholique de LouvainCollège Notre-Dame de Basse-Wavre
English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (7)
regular-expression10
javascript10
chai10
testing10
vue-jsx9
front-end-development9
vue9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
arhs/iban.js
Nov 2013 - Feb 2020
IBAN & BBAN validation, formatting and conversion in Javascript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 41 commits, 17 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Laurent primarily contributed to the `iban.js` library by implementing and extending its functionality. They added a `isValidBBAN` function and tests, enhancing the BBAN validation capabilities. Furthermore, the user introduced configuration for Andorra and Brasil IBAN formats, broadening the library's country support. They also implemented a demo with Vue and Spectre.css, offering a user-friendly interface for testing the IBAN functionalities.
validationjavascriptbbanconversionformatting
LaurentVB/mongoose-manager
Mar 2014 - Feb 2017
Contributions:65 commits, 2 pushes, 2 tags in 2 years 11 months
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