Nick Van Den Bleeken
Solution Designer & Technical Architect at Unifiedpost Group
North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNick Van Den Bleeken is a Solution Designer and Technical Architect with 16 years’ experience designing cloud-native, highly available web systems, currently shaping solutions at Unifiedpost in North Brabant. He blends hands-on development (React, TypeScript, AWS) with architecture work—gathering requirements, producing functional and solution specs, and guiding teams on scalability and maintainability. His background at Inventive Designers includes long-term R&D leadership and product evangelism for document-communication platforms, giving him deep expertise in XML/XForms and enterprise integration. Nick is also an active open-source contributor to the well-known Orbeon Forms project, where he implemented several XForms 1.1 functions and tightened spec compliance—an indication of both protocol-level expertise and attention to correctness. Colleagues rely on him to resolve thorny technical problems and to evaluate the business impact of architectural choices, while he continuously scouts emerging technologies to drive pragmatic improvements.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Universiteit Antwerpen
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (4)
xforms10
java10
javas10
xml9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
orbeon/orbeon-forms
Dec 2009 - Oct 2011
Orbeon Forms is an open source web forms solution. It includes an XForms engine, the Form Builder web-based form editor, and the Form Runner runtime.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the implementation of new XForms 1.1 functions, including `hmac()`, `is-card-number()`, `power()`, `local-date()`, `local-date-time()`, `days-to-date()`, and `choose()`. They also made changes to the `boolean-from-string()` function to align with the XForms 1.1 specification and corrected an issue related to the `seconds-to-dateTime()` function. These contributions extended the functionality of the Orbeon Forms backend, likely enhancing its data processing and validation capabilities.
form-builderweb-formsxformsruntimeweb-based
nvdbleek/portofolio
Dec 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:34 PRs, 41 pushes, 31 branches in 1 year 3 months
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