Simon Backx
Founder at Stamhoofd
Wetteren, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolSimon Backx is a founder and seasoned full-stack software engineer with a decade of experience building user-focused web products and scalable architectures for startups and associations. He leads Stamhoofd, delivering affordable member administration, ticketing and registration software for clubs and schools, and previously drove product and engineering at Ghost, contributing to core features like analytics, native comments and email stability for a major open-source publishing platform. His background includes leading full-stack teams and designing headless SPA architectures, reusable component libraries, and production-grade APIs at Dorst Technology and Bakeronline. Comfortable across front-end, back-end and mobile stacks, he combines hands-on implementation with hiring, code review and product strategy. A Ghent University computer science graduate, he brings entrepreneurial instincts from student ventures to polished, widely used systems and has tangible open-source contributions to the popular Ghost project.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Master of Science in Information Engineering Technology Computer Science, Master’s Degree Master of Science in Information Engineering Technology Computer Science at Ghent University
Dutch, English, French
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
web-application10
handlebars10
back-end-development10
css10
front-end-development10
webapp10
ember10
nodejs10
web-development10
testing9
html9
performance-optimization8
cms7
microblogging7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TryGhost/Ghost
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:425 reviews, 563 commits, 767 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Simon contributed to the Ghost publishing platform by implementing features and fixing bugs related to the front-end and back-end functionalities. Their work included adding new operators to the match helper and implementing the member context to various helpers, contributing to improved email preview functionality and performance. They also made changes to the email-sending flow and the structure of comments, demonstrating proficiency in web application development and contributing to both the user interface and application logic.
cmsmembershipspublishingnewslettersjavascript
TryGhost/Admin
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Ghost's admin client
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 130 commits, 15 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily worked on the front-end aspects of the Ghost admin client. They focused on implementing new features for the dashboard, including a dashboard version 5.0 prototype, with placeholder components, and implementing a new chart for member counts, email open rate and more. They also implemented UI components such as, and styling in CSS.
adminjavascriptghost-blogghostember
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