Niels Van Hove
Solutions Engineer at Jumbo Supermarkten
Brabantine City Row United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNiels Van Hove is a seasoned Solutions Engineer and empathic software engineer with nearly 25 years in the industry and over a decade focused on Android development. He excels at design systems, developer productivity, and maintainable architectures, repeatedly rescuing and re-architecting large, failing projects into scalable, testable solutions. As a tech lead he blends hands-on coding with coaching, having guided teams at TomTom, Lightyear and Nederlandse Spoorwegen through migrations to modern Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and clean architecture. He also maintains his own Android apps as a long-running freelance project, demonstrating continuous delivery and product ownership outside corporate settings. Comfortable navigating regulated and safety-critical domains, he has experience delivering under FDA-style constraints for medical devices and in automotive infotainment. Based in the UK, Niels pairs pragmatic engineering with strong UX and product collaboration to turn ambiguous requirements into reliable developer-friendly platforms.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)Technisch College Ede
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Github Skills (62)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nielsz/git-historical-stats
Jul 2021 - Aug 2022
A tool to generate statistics on long-term projects.
Contributions:6 releases, 53 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 1 month
statisticskotlin
nielsz/advent-of-code-2022
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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