Simon Schoeters
Developer at Nimbly
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Schoeters is a seasoned web developer and technical leader with 18 years of experience building everything from static sites to high-throughput web applications that stream live video. Based in Leuven, he combines deep hands-on expertise in Ruby, JavaScript and UNIX-like environments with product and team leadership as CTO at a fintech startup. He freelancers through Nimbly, supporting SMBs with web and mobile apps, and previously shaped startup-focused Rails projects at Belighted. A pragmatic engineer who values well-crafted, tested code, he prioritizes shipping products and thrives in self-organizing teams where initiative matters. Beyond product work he coaches students and entrepreneurs on technical skills that get attention from recruiters or help launch projects, reflecting his commitment to mentoring and community building.
18 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Political & Social Sciences, Political & Social Sciences at KU LeuvenBachelor, Computer science, Bachelor, Computer science at Katholieke Hogeschool LeuvenSint-Pieterscollege Leuven
Dutch, English, French, Hungarian
Github Skills (200)
ubuntu10
snapcraft10
html10
irc-server10
ruby10
activerecord10
social-media10
netsuite10
ruby-on-rails10
wagon10
rails10
jstree10
activitystreams10
mvc10
linux10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
cimm/omabox
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
A kiosk photo carousel for digital picture frames. Intended to run on a Raspberry Pi with Ubuntu Core.
Contributions:63 commits, 141 pushes, 14 branches in 3 months
ubuntu-coreraspberry-piraspberrycarouselpicture
cimm/blathy
Oct 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:56 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
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