Nicolas Cognaux
CTO And Cofounder at Freelance
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
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Top SchoolNicolas Cognaux is a hands-on CTO and serial founder with 14 years of experience building mobile-first products and startups from Brussels, blending an electrical engineering background from UCLouvain with deep mobile development expertise (C/C++, Java, Objective‑C, React Native, Angular/Node). He co-founded Covevent and Seety, steering technical strategy while shipping web and native apps and improving real-world reliability—evidenced by Android fixes to popular React Native libraries like Mapbox and push-notification examples. Comfortable in both product and low-level engineering, he has led platform development at MYK and contributed to industrial and embedded teams (Barco Silex, Broadcom). Nicolas is drawn to solving urban mobility and data-intensive challenges, and he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a track record of stabilizing critical mobile features and integrations.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
ingénieur civil Ingénierie électrique et électronique, ingénieur civil Ingénierie électrique et électronique at Université catholique de LouvainBuilding Mobile Experiences, Building Mobile Experiences at MITx (edX)CESS Sciences - Mathematics, CESS Sciences - Mathematics at Lycée Martin V
English, French, Dutch
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Github Skills (24)
debug10
map-box10
mobile-development10
react-native10
mapbox-gl10
apple-push-notifications10
push-notifications10
android-development10
java10
javas10
android10
error-handling9
expo8
ios8
fc7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
zo0r/react-native-push-notification
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
React Native Local and Remote Notifications
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:2 releases, 53 commits, 38 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the React Native push notification library, focusing on the example application. They added functionality to the example app for local and scheduled notifications. The user integrated the GCM (now deprecated) and FCM push notification services. Further work included fixing permission issues, handling actions and modifying the example app to support remote push notifications, and enabling remote notifications.
reactreact-nativepush-notificationsandroidnotifications
rnmapbox/maps
Jul 2019 - Sep 2024
A Mapbox react native module for creating custom maps
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:3 PRs, 9 comments, 1 issue in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily focused on improving the Android implementation of the React Native Mapbox module. Their contributions include fixing a bug related to the `onRegionDidChanged` event, handling potential errors when loading bitmaps from URLs, and preventing crashes caused by null URLs in source components like VectorSource, RasterSource, and ShapeSource. Furthermore, the user addressed a crash on Android related to missing location permissions and removed old location parameters from the MapView component, demonstrating a focus on stability and addressing potential errors within the Android codebase.
reactreact-native-modulemaplibremapboxreact-native
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