Loek Van Gool
Co-Founder at Chefstore.nl
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolLoek Van Gool is a tech-savvy entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Chefstore.nl with a decade of experience bridging software engineering and product-led businesses. He combines a strong backend engineering background—contributing fixes and core improvements to the widely used OpenMage Magento LTS codebase—with enterprise solution architecture experience from roles at Elastic and Accenture. Trained in Economics & Informatics (Erasmus), he brings a data-informed approach to product and technical decisions, reinforced by MOOC study in big data and analytics. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he has tackled low-level platform bugs and image-processing issues as well as high-level customer solutions, demonstrating fluency from code to commercial strategy. Based in Amsterdam, he blends chef-themed branding and hands-on development in a way that highlights both entrepreneurial flair and engineering discipline.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Big Data, Data Analytics, Finance, Math, Statistics, Big Data, Data Analytics, Finance, Math, Statistics at MOOC StudentMSc, Economics & Informatics, MSc, Economics & Informatics at Erasmus Universiteit RotterdamBSc, Economics & Informatics, BSc, Economics & Informatics at Erasmus University Rotterdam
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (9)
php10
magento10
ecommerce10
css8
html8
database7
databases7
composer6
phpunit5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
OpenMage/magento-lts
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Official OpenMage LTS codebase | Migrate easily from Magento Community Edition in minutes! Download the source code for free or contribute to OpenMage LTS | Security vulnerability patches, bug fixes, performance improvements and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 10 commits, 30 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Loek primarily contributed to the OpenMage LTS codebase by addressing backend issues related to the Magento platform. Their work involved bug fixes for the admin panel, including improvements to layout and display of elements. They also modified core Magento code, specifically the `Mage_Catalog_Model_Product` class to accept an integer as input for `setCategoryIds()` and corrected code issues in the image processing library `Gd2.php`. Furthermore, they addressed documentation gaps.
openmageecommerceshopwaresecurity-vulnerabilitycomposer
loekvangool/elastic-flights
Apr 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 2 PRs in 9 months
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