Steven Van Impe
General Manager at Daikin Europe NV
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolSteven Van Impe is a seasoned operations and finance executive with 12 years of experience leading cross-functional teams at Daikin Europe, now serving as General Manager overseeing finance, accounting and multiple affiliate coordination centers. He has moved through roles spanning HR international affairs, strategy and deputy GM for operations where he led manufacturing planning, procurement and a digital transformation office inside manufacturing. Known for guiding post-merger integrations and scaling operational capability, he combines commercial rigor with people-focused HR expertise. Less expected for a GM, he contributes to open-source software—improving Swift syntax highlighting in the widely used highlight.js project—demonstrating a hands-on curiosity for programming and tooling. Educated at Vlerick Business School and based in Ghent, he brings a pragmatic, integrative approach to transforming complex organisations.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Vlerick Business School
Stackoverflow
1,163reputation
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39answers
9questions
javafx
top-5%
Github Skills (13)
swift10
grammars10
syntax-highlighting10
javafx9
xcode6
css6
scenebuilder6
ios6
label6
combobox6
fonts6
java6
javascript5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
highlightjs/highlight.js
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
JavaScript syntax highlighter with language auto-detection and zero dependencies.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:77 reviews, 5 commits, 6 PRs in 23 days
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to improving the Swift language highlighting within the project. They focused on enhancing the grammar and adding support for various Swift features, including raw string literals, operators, type highlighting, generic arguments, and function definitions. Furthermore, the user added support for operator and precedencegroup declarations to provide more accurate syntax highlighting. These changes significantly improved the accuracy and completeness of the Swift syntax highlighting within the repository.
dependencieshighlightzerosyntax-highlighterjavascript-syntax
svanimpe/fx-buglist
Jan 2015 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 9 years 2 months
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