Michaël Van De Giessen
Mobile Application Developer
North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMichaël Van De Giessen is a seasoned Java and mobile application developer with 12 years of hands-on experience building web and mobile solutions, certified in Spring and Scrum Product Ownership. He balances entrepreneurial roles—co-owner of intractief and founder of small agencies—with day-to-day engineering, shipping features across backend APIs, CI/CD pipelines and user-focused interfaces. An advocate of test-driven development and agile practices, he has contributed to notable open-source work such as enhancements to the GitLab4J API (package filtering and webhook events). Based in North Brabant, he mentors at coderdojo initiatives and brings a practical blend of UX sensibility and deep Java ecosystem expertise. Colleagues know him for turning complex integration challenges into reliable, maintainable systems—and for being a gamer with partial Javanese roots, which keeps his curiosity lively.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Certified Scrum Product Owner, Certified Scrum Product Owner at Certified Scrum Product Owner trainingMaasland collegeing, Human Information Technology (eindhoven), ing, Human Information Technology (eindhoven) at Fontys Hogeschool Eindhoven
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (12)
javas10
gitlab10
gitlab-api10
java10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
testing8
jenkins6
bitbucket6
jenkins-plugin6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gitlab4j/gitlab4j-api
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
GitLab4J API (gitlab4j-api) provides a full featured Java client library for working with GitLab repositories via the GitLab REST API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Michaël's contributions centered around enhancing the GitLab4J API library. They added new package types to the `PackageType` enum and implemented a `PackageFilter` for querying packages. They also modified existing API methods to include the `PackageFilter` functionality and added a test class. Furthermore, they updated webhooks functionality to add deployment and release event support.
repositoriesgitlab-apiapifull-featuredjava-gitlab-api
wavesnode/gateway-for-woocommerce
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
Wordpress woocommerce plugin for supporting Waves or any other token on the Waves platform, examples: https://shop.wavesnode.net and https://services.wavesnode.net
Contributions:3 releases, 67 commits, 7 PRs in 7 months
wordpresstokenwoocommercewordpress-woocommerce-pluginwaves
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