Menno Van Der Werff
Head Of IT at ITD Assessments
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolMenno Van Der Werff is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building and scaling software businesses, most recently serving as Head of IT at umain and Head of Technology at SENSE. He founded and grew WAME from 2006 until its acquisition in 2018, then led technology and integration efforts as CTO at SST Software, blending hands-on development with strategic IT management. Menno excels at improving business processes through pragmatic software solutions—ranging from healthcare systems to decision-intelligence products—while keeping teams aligned with open communication and structured delivery. A full-stack contributor to notable open-source projects like the Kunstmaan CMS, he brings practical front-end and back-end skills to product and platform decisions. He pairs an Industrial Engineering & Management background from Universiteit Twente with a proven record in project delivery, resource planning and organizational transition. Colleagues know him for turning complex requirements into maintainable systems and for staying engaged in both client strategy and code-level improvements.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Industrial Engineering & Management, Information Technology management, Bachelor of Science (BS), Industrial Engineering & Management, Information Technology management at Universiteit Twente
Dutch, English, German, Czech, French
Github Skills (8)
cms10
php10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
twig9
html9
css7
javascript7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Kunstmaan/KunstmaanBundlesCMS
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
An advanced yet user-friendly content management system, based on the full stack Symfony framework combined with a whole host of community bundles. It provides a full featured, multi-language CMS system with an innovative page and form assembling process, versioning, workflow, translation and media managers and much more.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Menno contributed to both the front-end and back-end aspects of the Kunstmaan CMS. They fixed form layout issues by adding default classes, demonstrating front-end skills. Additionally, they created a new FormPage generator and made modifications to menu adaptors and template files, highlighting their involvement in the CMS's structure and functionality. They also addressed translation issues and improved the admin interface.
cmsfull-featuredmulti-languagetranslationcontent-management-system
mennowame/DatatablesBundle
Apr 2015 - Feb 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 11 months
datatablesjqueryjquery-datatables-pluginbundlephp
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