Rik Willems
Interim & Freelance - IT & Digital Transformation
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRik Willems is an entrepreneurial IT and digital transformation leader with 13 years of experience building e-commerce and content platforms across agencies and publishers. He combines an MSc in Business Information Management with hands-on development and architecture work—most recently as Head of Technology and now as an interim/freelance consultant—bridging strategy, product and engineering to deliver pragmatic, long-term solutions. Rik has deep Magento and TYPO3 experience (including contributing performance improvements to a Magento full-page cache extension) and a track record of leading high-performing teams using proven design and delivery practices. He favors open stakeholder dialogue and measurable outcomes, turning complex requirements into scalable digital products on time and on budget. Colleagues describe him as tech-savvy and analytical but distinctly business-minded, able to translate commercial goals into clean technical implementations.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Business Information Management, MSc Business Information Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
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Github Skills (5)
caching10
php10
magento10
databases3
database3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GordonLesti/Lesti_Fpc
Jul 2015 - Oct 2015
Simple Magento Fullpagecache
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Rik contributed to a Magento Full Page Cache (FPC) extension, focusing on enhancing its functionality. The commits involve adding new features, specifically caching attributes used in layered navigation to improve performance. The user also incorporated caching mechanisms and fixed build errors, indicating they worked on improving the extension's stability and efficiency. Furthermore, the changes included adding a cache tag for clearing the FPC.
magento2magentomagento2-extension
Actiview/module-honeypot
Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
Magento 2 honeypot spam prevention
Contributions:2 releases, 11 commits, 2 PRs in 10 months
magento-2preventionspammagento2honeypot
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