Pieter Van Der Haegen
Engineering Lead at Het Depot
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolPieter Van Der Haegen is an engineering lead based in Leuven with 11 years of software development experience, currently helping BloomUp reduce barriers to mental health access in Belgium. He combines hands-on full‑stack expertise—TypeScript/React/Next and Ruby on Rails—from roles at DataCamp and Aaqua with practical leadership in a fast-moving nonprofit environment. Pieter has a track record of shipping user-facing products since his student‑project days at Quivr and brings a pragmatic, test-first approach learned through Cypress and RSpec. He balances technical delivery with operational responsibility, also managing hospitality at Het Depot, which gives him a grounded perspective on team dynamics and service. A cum laude Applied Computer Science graduate, he prefers measurable impact over pure novelty and focuses on making helpful products that scale.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Professionele Bachelor, Applied Computer Science option software development, Cum laude, Professionele Bachelor, Applied Computer Science option software development, Cum laude at UC Leuven-LimburgWetenschappen Wiskunde optie wetenschappelijke vorming, Wetenschappen Wiskunde optie wetenschappelijke vorming at Heilig Hartinstituut Heverlee
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
327reputation
8kreached
2answers
8questions
Github Skills (200)
cfml10
testing10
browser10
api10
html10
nodejs10
mongodb10
headless-cms10
content-management10
getstream-io10
cms10
ruby10
no-code10
react-chat10
mysql10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vdhpieter/strapi
Sep 2023 - Sep 2024
🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable and developer-first.
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year
vdhpieter/PMDBDomain
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 38 pushes in 3 months
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