Michiel Helvensteijn
Software Engineer at Meta
Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichiel Helvensteijn is a Software Engineer with a PhD in Computer Science and 12 years of experience building full-stack web applications and microservice architectures, currently contributing at Meta from Maidenhead, UK. He combines academic rigor—shown by leading NIH-funded Open Physiology and ApiNATOMY projects—with practical engineering practices like clean code, automated testing and agile delivery. His background spans research labs and product teams, including architecting 3D web visualization for anatomy and end-to-end testing and ML toolchains at Qubit. Known for expertise in feature-oriented programming, he brings a rare blend of formal research methods and hands-on production engineering. An understated strength is his track record of translating PhD research into deployable developer-facing APIs and interactive applications.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Leiden UniversityMBO, Algemene Ondernemings Vaardigheden, MBO, Algemene Ondernemings Vaardigheden at NHAMBO, Praktische Informatiekunde 1, MBO, Praktische Informatiekunde 1 at Stichting Facta
Dutch, English, German, Russian
Stackoverflow
4,265reputation
559kreached
25answers
54questions
webpack
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css
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babeljs
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Github Skills (200)
atom-editor10
threejs10
http-client10
svg10
3d10
chartjs-plugin10
test-coverage10
browser10
javascript-tools10
nodejs10
utilities10
lodash10
xmlhttprequest10
windows10
modularity10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mhelvens/latex-lt3graph
Dec 2013 - Oct 2017
a graph datastructure for the LaTeX3 programming environment
Contributions:4 releases, 22 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 10 months
datastructureprogramming-environmentlatex3latexgraph
mhelvens/graph.js
Apr 2014 - Dec 2016
a javascript library for storing arbitrary data in mathematical (di)graphs, as well as traversing and analyzing them in various ways (ECMAScript 6 Ready)
Contributions:205 commits, 3 PRs, 130 pushes in 2 years 8 months
analyzingjavascript-libraryecmascript-6eulerchartjs-plugin
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