Philippe Luickx
Senior Advisor at Sofigate
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilippe Luickx is a senior advisor and full-stack technologist with 12 years of experience bridging product, data science and business strategy from Tampere, Finland. He combines hands-on engineering (Django back-end contributions to notable open-source projects like dj-stripe and django-rest-auth) with product ownership and leadership, favoring rapid experimentation and iterative delivery to maximize impact. At Sofigate he leads ServiceNow integrations and internal AI coaching initiatives, while his entrepreneurial background taught him to run feedback-driven product development and sales alignment. Known for blunt honesty and disruptive creativity, he thrives in the space between technology and business and routinely turns ambiguous problems into pragmatic, production-ready solutions. An early practice of semantic web and ETL work in life sciences adds a data-modeling depth not obvious from his current advisory role.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
2nd place, Creativity Class 2011, 2nd place, Creativity Class 2011 at Vlerick Leuven-Gent Management SchoolCleantech bootcamp, Cleantech bootcamp at Flanders DCMaster of Science (MSc) in Business and Information Systems Engineering, Bussines, ICT, Economics, Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) in Business and Information Systems Engineering, Bussines, ICT, Economics, Engineering at Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenPlatform for young entrepreneurs, Bright Young entrepreneurs, Platform for young entrepreneurs, Bright Young entrepreneurs at Bryo
Dutch, English, French, Finnish, Spanish, Danish
Github Skills (22)
social-auth10
api-rest10
billing10
serializer10
subscribe10
python10
stripe10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
rest-framework10
django-rest10
user-authentication10
authentication10
subscriber10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Tivix/django-rest-auth
Aug 2015 - Oct 2017
This app makes it extremely easy to build Django powered SPA's (Single Page App) or Mobile apps exposing all registration and authentication related functionality as CBV's (Class Base View) and REST (JSON)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 7 PRs, 55 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Philippe focused on enhancing the authentication and registration features of the Django REST framework application. Their contributions involved adding social login functionality, including handling authorization codes, and allowing users to log in with email and password. They also addressed deprecated code and implemented bug fixes, and refined the serializers and views.
social-loginpythondjango-frameworkcbvdjango-rest-framework
dj-stripe/dj-stripe
May 2015 - Jun 2015
dj-stripe automatically syncs your Stripe Data to your local database as pre-implemented Django Models allowing you to use the Django ORM, in your code, to work with the data making it easier and faster.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Philippe primarily contributed to the implementation of a REST API for the dj-stripe project. They introduced new REST API endpoints for managing subscriptions, including creation, retrieval, and cancellation, while also incorporating better error handling. Furthermore, the user provided documentation for the newly implemented REST API endpoints. This work focused on enhancing the project's capabilities for subscription management through a RESTful interface.
stripepythondjangolocal-databaseorm
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