Pieter Van Der Helst
Lector at Hogeschool Gent
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolPieter Van Der Helst is a software educator and developer with 8+ years of formal experience teaching web technology, iOS development and AI at Hogeschool Gent, and a long hands-on background building apps and systems since the early 2000s. He blends practical industry experience—from senior engineering and software developer roles to indie iOS app creation—with academic instruction, making him adept at translating cutting-edge topics like Angular, C#, and mobile AI into classroom-ready curricula. Based in Ghent, he has shipped consumer-facing iOS products at HeyHey Apps and contributed to commercial projects at Adhese and Artwork Systems, giving him a strong product-minded engineering perspective. Known internally as “the Nerd” during his app-development phase, Pieter pairs a developer’s curiosity with a teacher’s clarity, helping students and teams bridge theory and production practice.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Universiteit Gent
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Github Skills (34)
animation10
ios9
iphone9
stl9
vector9
e-mail9
namespaces9
iterator9
blockchain8
clang6
reveal6
vim6
rotation6
python6
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Pieter-hogent/web4
Jan 2019 - May 2021
web4
Contributions:120 commits, 3 PRs, 87 pushes in 2 years 4 months
blockchainweb3web4
Pieter-hogent/web4-old
Dec 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 67 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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