Michiel Van Der Blonk
Teacher at BlueKoala
Oranjestad, Aruba
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Top SchoolMichiel Van Der Blonk is a seasoned software educator and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience teaching ICT and building web applications from Oranjestad, Aruba. As owner of BlueKoala and a long-time Computer Science teacher at Colegio EPI, he blends classroom instruction, online courses, and client-facing web development work. He specializes in advanced web technologies across front-end, back-end, and databases, and has a track record of developing training curricula and mentoring developers since the late 1990s. Beyond teaching, he stays hands-on in software delivery—having guided freelance teams, authored course material, and built internal tools—bringing practical, production-ready perspectives into the classroom. A speedcuber as well as a programmer, he combines a methodical problem-solving mindset with a passion for helping others get the most out of programming.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ing., Informatica (Computer Science), Ing., Informatica (Computer Science) at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)
Stackoverflow
730reputation
507kreached
31answers
16questions
Github Skills (81)
genetic9
windows-forms8
evolutionary8
html-form8
schoology8
threejs7
to-do7
vba7
cube7
factory7
react7
php-library6
excel6
rest-client6
if-statement6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
blonkm/schoology-improved
Sep 2016 - Jun 2022
Using the Schoology API to do things you can't using the web version
Contributions:105 commits, 8 PRs, 91 pushes in 5 years 9 months
apischoology-apito-doschoology
blonkm/quizbaker
Mar 2012 - Aug 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 5 months
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