Pascal Widdershoven
CTO at Kabisa - Software Artisans
Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPascal Widdershoven is a hands-on CTO and full-stack software engineer with 14 years of experience leading and building business-critical web and mobile applications from Maastricht. He combines technical architecture and team leadership—shaping innovation strategy at Kabisa while still contributing code across frontend, backend and integration layers. Pascal has deep Java and Ruby on Rails experience, has worked on large microservices platforms (Philips Health Suite) and improved robustness in open-source projects like the Stringer RSS reader. Known for craftsmanship and curiosity, he mentors agile teams as a former Scrum Master and still enjoys digging into code-level problems. Outside work he’s an avid learner with a penchant for cars, which often fuels his practical, systems-oriented approach to engineering.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bernardinus collegeBachelor of Science (Cum Laude), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (Cum Laude), Software Engineering at Fontys Hogescholen
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (9)
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rss-reader10
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urn10
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ruby10
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Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
stringer-rss/stringer
Aug 2014 - Sep 2017
A self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 5 PRs, 21 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Pascal primarily focused on improving the functionality and robustness of the Stringer RSS reader. Their contributions included refactoring the `FetchFeed` class to use named parameters, adding integration tests for handling feeds with invalid publication dates, and refactoring the feed importer to utilize story IDs for more reliable story identification. They also addressed URL handling, specifically normalizing story URLs, and included a fix to handle relative URLs. Additionally, the user made several code style improvements.
rssantirss-readerhostedfeedjira
kabisa/jenkins-docker
Apr 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 8 months
jenkinscontainersjenkins-plugindockerjenkins-jobs
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