Pleun Vanderbauwhede
Full Stack Engineer at Cohabs
Brussels, Belgium
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Top SchoolPleun Vanderbauwhede is a senior frontend-focused full stack engineer with over a decade of experience designing and shipping complex SaaS products across startup and enterprise settings. He evolved from backend beginnings into a trusted owner of frontend architecture, leading major rewrites, a large JS→TypeScript migration, and a monorepo adoption while raising test coverage from ~10% to >70%. Comfortable owning systems end-to-end, he blends a strong product mindset with hands-on delivery—shaping features from discovery through release and balancing short-term customer needs with long-term maintainability. He champions accessibility-first development and scalable internationalization, and has practical experience deploying AI-driven, real-time conversational interfaces in Azure production flows. Based in Brussels, Pleun is motivated by translating ambiguous requirements into clear, high-quality user experiences and improving developer efficiency through modern tooling and incremental refactors. A pragmatic collaborator and mentor, he routinely bridges frontend, backend, product, and design to keep large codebases healthy during rapid change.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Informatics, Applied Informatics at Erasmushogeschool Brussel
English, Dutch, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
testing10
dialog10
language-design10
bundler10
tslint10
schema10
service-worker10
localization10
json10
schema-validation10
commonjs10
modal-dialog10
dom10
splitting10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pleunv/graphiql
Oct 2017 - Aug 2022
An in-browser IDE for exploring GraphQL.
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 years 10 months
browserbrowser-idegraphiqlidegraphql
pleunv/synology-mediamon
Jan 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
synologymonitorsynology-diskstationnasindexing
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