Rik Helsen
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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RockstarRik Helsen is a full-stack developer and privacy advocate from Ghent, Belgium, with nine years of experience building and maintaining web and enterprise solutions. He brings deep hands-on expertise in SharePoint (2010–2013), Dynamics CRM, Umbraco and customer-facing service integrations, pairing legacy platform knowledge with modern back-end skills. An active open-source contributor, Rik has improved the popular freqtrade crypto trading bot by fixing hyperopt JSON output, enhancing exchange handling, adding dry-run functionality, and streamlining order cancellation and stoploss behavior. He favors a language-agnostic mindset—believing mastery of one language yields fluency in others—which helps him move fluidly across stacks and tooling. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, especially when untangling merge conflicts and build scripts in collaborative projects.
9 years of coding experience
English, French, Dutch
Github Skills (8)
cryptocurrencies10
python10
algorithmic-trading10
trading-bot10
back-end-development9
git8
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
freqtrade/freqtrade
May 2021 - Dec 2021
Free, open source crypto trading bot
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 11 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Rik primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the `freqtrade` codebase. Their work involved correcting issues in the hyperopt tools, specifically related to JSON output, and resolving merge conflicts within the exchange-related files. Furthermore, the user made enhancements to the `Exchange` class, added dry-run functionality, and refined the handling of order cancellations and stoploss orders. They also updated build scripts.
telegram-botalgorithmic-tradingpythonfreqtradetrading-bot
Rikj000/Magisk-Manager-for-Recovery-Mode
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
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Contributions:7 releases, 11 commits, 19 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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