Martin Van Aken
Geek Des Champs at Recovr
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
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Top SchoolMartin Van Aken is a pragmatic software engineer, coach and one-man product team with 12+ years of experience building mission-driven tech for health, education, climate and inclusion. He blends hands-on coding (Python, Ruby, JavaScript/React) with product leadership—having co-founded a startup, scaled a tech team from 1 to 20+ as CTO, and repeatedly shipped MVPs and product lines. Comfortable toggling between developer, technical advisor and trainer roles, he mentors teams and teaches at institutions like Le Wagon and HE Vinci. He prefers working directly with mission-aligned organisations rather than through intermediaries, because his value lies in directly understanding needs. Notably, his productivity superpower is ruthless prioritization—knowing what not to build so teams focus on real impact. Based in Brussels, he combines technical depth with a long track record of turning complex domain problems into practical, cost-effective solutions.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
DEC2 Computing Science, DEC2 Computing Science at Université libre de BruxellesHaute Ecole de BruxellesAgregation Pedagogy Economics, Agregation Pedagogy Economics at Université de Mons
English, Dutch, French
Stackoverflow
7,674reputation
318kreached
227answers
2questions
rvm
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rubygems
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ruby
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ruby-on-rails
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Github Skills (80)
ruby10
rubygems10
refer10
rvm10
spring-mvc9
menu9
ruby-on-rails9
maven9
service-layer9
azure8
api8
imdb8
dhis28
drawer8
slack-bot8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
vanakenm/blog-11ty
Aug 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:130 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
vanakenm/gendernews
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:43 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 8 months
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