Roel Standaert
Lector at UC Leuven-Limburg
Bierbeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolRoel Standaert is a lecturer and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building C++ web back-ends and teaching at UC Leuven-Limburg. He spent nearly a decade at Emweb contributing to the Wt C++ Web Toolkit—adding move semantics, WebSocket fixes, HTTP method support and benchmark integrations—demonstrating deep practical knowledge of high-performance web frameworks. His work on TechEmpower FrameworkBenchmarks shows an attention to real-world performance tuning and database configuration. Roel combines academic rigor from KU Leuven (MEng) with hands-on product development, from RTLS positioning systems to media software installers. Known for meticulous low-level improvements and test-driven contributions, he bridges research, teaching and production engineering. Based in Bierbeek, he brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented perspective to both classrooms and codebases.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science at KU Leuven
Dutch, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
benchmark10
performance-monitor10
c-language10
frameworkbenchmarks10
back-end-development10
benchmarking10
performance-analysis10
cprogramming-language10
mysql9
postgresql9
software-design9
testing8
websocket7
database-management7
wt6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
emweb/wt
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
Wt, C++ Web Toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 1672 commits, 10 comments in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Roel contributed to the Wt, C++ Web Toolkit repository by implementing move constructors and assignment operators for `Wt::Dbo::ptr`, `Wt::Dbo::collection`, and `Wt::Dbo::weak_ptr`. They also wrote tests for move semantics in `Wt::Dbo` and fixed WebSocket-related issues. The user also added support for HTTP methods, and other smaller improvements for the project.
cpp
TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
Feb 2014 - Dec 2017
Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Roel primarily contributed to the backend implementation of the Wt framework benchmarks. Their work involved adding and modifying benchmark code, specifically focusing on the Wt framework. They updated the Wt version and made code formatting changes. The commits also included generalizing database host configurations and removing unnecessary transaction management.
techempowerframeworkbenchmarkperformancebenchmarks
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