Sander Goossens
Full Stack Engineer at Kodeus
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolSander Goossens is a versatile full stack engineer based in Leuven, Belgium, with 10 years of experience building web and mobile applications across Symfony, Angular, React, and React Native. He started as a Drupal developer and evolved into a senior Symfony engineer before pivoting to modern frontend and mobile stacks, while maintaining backend expertise. As a freelancer and founder of Kodeus, he combines agency-style client work with scalable engineering practices and has contributed frontend and backend fixes to the well-regarded Kunstmaan CMS. His recent roles emphasize React Native/Expo mobile engineering, backend-for-frontend patterns in Node.js (Fastify/Hono/Express), and mentoring teams in Agile environments. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often bridges complex templating/interactivity issues (CKEditor, Twig, JS) with solid backend logic. He brings an entrepreneurial mindset and hands-on delivery focus that helps projects move quickly from prototype to production.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Applied computer science, Bachelor Applied computer science at Katholieke Hogeschool LeuvenASO Economics, ASO Economics at Sint-Martinus Overijse
German, French, English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
php10
cms10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
twig9
javascript9
front-end-development8
facebook-graph-api6
facebook6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Kunstmaan/KunstmaanBundlesCMS
Jan 2016 - Mar 2019
An advanced yet user-friendly content management system, based on the full stack Symfony framework combined with a whole host of community bundles. It provides a full featured, multi-language CMS system with an innovative page and form assembling process, versioning, workflow, translation and media managers and much more.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 326 commits, 419 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sander contributed to the Kunstmaan CMS project by implementing features and fixing bugs in both the frontend and backend. Their work involved enhancing nested form functionality with up/down arrows and fixing issues with the rich editor, which required reinitializing the CKEditor in certain DOM manipulations. The user also removed unnecessary console logs and merged branches. The changes touch on JavaScript, Twig templating, and potentially Symfony-based backend logic.
cmsfull-featuredmulti-languagetranslationcontent-management-system
Kunstmaan/cilex-twig
Feb 2018 - Aug 2024
This is the Silex TwigServiceProvider, adapted for use in Cilex
Contributions:2 PRs in 6 years 7 months
phpsilexadapted
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