Roel Vaneyghen
Founder & Full-stack Software Engineer at Urban Hunt
Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolRoel Vaneyghen is a founder and full-stack JavaScript engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput web apps and real-time systems from Belgium. He has repeatedly launched and scaled products—Kwis.app for concurrent real-time gameplay, Bookfast for high-volume ticketing and payments, and Urban Hunt—while handling everything from API design and complex state management to server load balancing and SEO. Comfortable across the stack, he leverages Next.js, Node.js, Fastify, React/Vue, and a variety of databases (Postgres, MongoDB, FaunaDB) to deliver performant, production-ready systems. A trained cinematographer and photographer, he brings a designer’s eye to UX and product polish, which helped increase conversion rates and reduce operational costs for multiple clients. He works remotely and thrives as a solo engineer shipping feature-rich platforms that handle significant traffic and revenue.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Open UniversiteitCinematography - Audiovisual Arts Cinematography and Film/Video Production, Cinematography - Audiovisual Arts Cinematography and Film/Video Production at Erasmushogeschool Brussel
Dutch, English, French, Vietnamese
Stackoverflow
173reputation
18kreached
3answers
10questions
Github Skills (200)
whatsapp10
steroids10
browser10
mousetrap10
api10
static-site-generator10
ssg10
nodejs10
sql-database10
vercel10
popup10
higher-order-component10
cms10
rest-api10
no-code10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
roelvan/rest-sms-android
Sep 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 4 years 6 months
roelvan/serverless-eu-vat-checker
Apr 2019 - Jun 2021
Quickly check if a VAT ID is valid (🇪🇺Europe only).
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
vatis-validvalid
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