Philip Van Hoof
Contract At Heidenhain at Codeminded BVBA
Aarschot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Summary
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SeniorPhilip Van Hoof is a seasoned embedded and application software engineer with 17 years of experience building high-performance C/C++ and Qt-based systems for industrial and mobile platforms. Currently contracting at Heidenhain, he leads UI architecture and tech‑lead efforts for CNC controller software, HSC and 5-axis machining, and has built an editor handling >1GB Klartext files for CAD/CAM workflows. His background spans kernel and driver work, real‑time Linux, systemd container architectures, and cross‑platform ports (WinCE/Linux), reflecting deep expertise across low-level and user-facing layers. Philip also trains and mentors teams on Qt, Tracker/SPARQL, and embedded Linux best practices, and has maintained CI/CD and release tooling like Jenkins, Gitflow and TeamCity. A long-time contributor to GNOME/Tracker and author of public Tracker repositories, he combines pragmatic engineering with open-source stewardship. Colleagues rely on him for solving tricky performance, parsing and platform-integration problems that others tend to avoid.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English, Dutch, French, German
Stackoverflow
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2kreached
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Github Skills (96)
mixing10
semantic-web10
ontologies10
relational10
data-storage10
pygobject10
gnome10
sparql10
ide10
linked-data10
mime9
glib9
url-parsing9
parser9
mime-types9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pvanhoof/tracker
Nov 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:68 commits in 1 year
kunaaljain/tracker
Aug 2008 - Dec 2012
Contributions:435 commits in 4 years 4 months
contactstrackerdata-storagesemantic-webstorage
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