Matthijs Van Henten
Principal Software Engineer at STX Group
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMatthijs Van Henten is a Principal Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 15 years of experience building and leading engineering teams across startups and large cloud platforms, including Cloud9, AWS, Miro and STX Group. He blends hands-on backend and frontend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the Cloud9 core IDE—and a passion for UX, security and psychology to shape pragmatic, user-centered systems. Known for cultivating strong yet flexible opinions, he moves between prototyping, teaching and shipping features while coaching teams through architectural decisions. His background in media technology and media art gives him a distinctive perspective on interaction design and developer tooling, treating laptops as expressive input devices rather than mere terminals.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, VWO at Berlingh College BeverwijkMSc Msc Mediatechnology, MSc Msc Mediatechnology at Leiden UniversityBachelor of Arts Media Art, Bachelor of Arts Media Art at ArtEZ University of the Arts
German, English
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Github Skills (6)
nodejs10
javascript10
apidoc9
api9
url-routing9
error-handling8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
c9/core
Feb 2015 - Mar 2018
Cloud9 Core - Part of the Cloud9 SDK for Plugin Development https://c9.github.io/core/ https://c9.io
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:107 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matthijs primarily focused on reverting changes related to `frontdoor` module and profile features within the `core` repository. These changes involved modifications to routing logic and potentially API configurations, suggesting a role in managing or debugging the core backend functionalities. Furthermore, the user corrected a rename issue in `ace` library, indicating some familiarity with core dependencies. They also addressed an issue with the error handler in the project.
cloud9plugin-development
mvhenten/extract-gettext
Sep 2014 - Apr 2018
Extract gettext strings from __('literal') and __n('single', 'plural', n ) functions in any source
Contributions:31 commits, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 8 months
gettext
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