Maria Verdonck
Technical Lead at Atmire
Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolMaria Verdonck is a Technical Lead with nine years of experience building full-stack web applications and leading teams from Flemish Brabant, Belgium. She combines hands-on front-end work in Angular with back-end REST API and digital asset management expertise, notably contributing UX improvements and API enhancements to the well-known open-source DSpace project. At Atmire she progressed from Software Developer to Project Engineer and now Technical Lead, demonstrating technical depth and growing leadership responsibility. Her contributions show attention to performance and data cleanliness (e.g., removing null fields and refining serialization) as well as practical feature work like CRUD for bitstream format registries and UI theming. With a degree in Applied Computer Science and a consistent open-source presence, she brings pragmatic engineering, product-focused thinking, and community-oriented collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Toegepaste Informatica, Toegepaste Informatica at UC Leuven-Limburg
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Github Skills (25)
api-rest10
back-end-development10
restful-api10
typescript10
user-interface10
ui-design10
java10
javas10
uid10
api10
front-end-development10
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typescript-types10
rest-api10
typescripts10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DSpace/DSpace
May 2019 - Jan 2023
(Official) The DSpace digital asset management system that powers your Institutional Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 241 commits, 28 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Maria primarily focused on enhancing the DSpace digital asset management system, specifically by improving error handling in REST API endpoints and adding new functionality to the bitstream format registry. Their contributions included adding functionality for Create, Read, Update and Delete to the bitstreamformat registry and refactoring to move bitstreams to different bundles. They've demonstrated experience with core back-end components as well as REST API development.
management-systemopen-accessdigital-assetdigital-asset-managementpowers
DSpace/dspace-angular
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
DSpace User Interface built on Angular.io
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 12 commits, 27 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Maria primarily focused on enhancing the Angular-based user interface of the DSpace repository. Their contributions include implementing features like tooltips on browse buttons, fixing display issues, and refining the application's structure. They also addressed data serialization, removing null fields to optimize data transfer. Furthermore, the user improved the UI by theming the alert components.
user-interfaceangular-ioyarnangular-uingrx
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