Michel Michels
IT Teamlead at iDocta
Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolMichel Michels is an experienced C# software engineer and IT team lead from Waregem with 11 years building and leading development of a production-grade ERP written in .NET/WPF and backed by SQL. He architected a sustainable desktop ERP handling invoicing, stock and serial-number tracking, and is now extending it into a web version while running the dev team at iDocta. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced the widely used MaterialDesignInXAML toolkit—adding UI controls, styles and Material Design 3 support—and maintains ViesSharp, a C# VAT-validation API wrapper. Blending hands-on UI work with backend architecture, he brings pragmatic product-focused engineering and a knack for turning legacy desktop systems into maintainable platforms.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics-ICT, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics-ICT at Hogeschool OdiseeEngineer’s Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Engineer’s Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Katholieke Hogeschool 'Sint-Lieven', GentHigh School, Latijn-Wiskunde, High School, Latijn-Wiskunde at Heilig Hartcollege Waregem
Dutch, French, English
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Github Skills (8)
material-design10
ui-theme10
wpf10
csharp10
wordpress-themes10
xaml10
converter9
ui-design9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MaterialDesignInXAML/MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
Google's Material Design in XAML & WPF, for C# & VB.Net.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 19 commits, 31 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michel focused on enhancing the user interface and features of the Material Design in XAML & WPF toolkit. They implemented new UI elements like leading and trailing icons for text fields and extended the tab control with new styles and sizes. The contributions included bug fixes for existing components and refactoring of existing converter classes, specifically the FloatingHintOffsetCalculationConverter. They also contributed to the integration of Material Design 3, involving various updates to demo pages and typography.
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MichelMichels/CliSharp
Aug 2019 - Nov 2024
Small C# standard library to execute external command line tools
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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