Stijn Hofman
Software Developer at Cox Automotive Mobility Europe
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolStijn Hofman is a pragmatic software developer with 11 years of experience building backend and full-stack solutions across finance, mobility and SaaS domains, currently contributing at Cox Automotive Mobility Europe from Ghent. He combines strong analytical problem-solving and lateral thinking with hands-on engineering, having improved core UI and window-management internals on the popular open-source workspacer tiling window manager. His background spans startups and enterprise teams (including vdk bank and FleetMaster), giving him a knack for turning complex requirements into maintainable code and reliable integrations. Trained in New Media and Communication Technology, Stijn brings a blend of technical rigor and user-focused design sensibility that surfaces in performance-minded features and plugin architecture work. Colleagues rely on him to refactor difficult components and deliver incremental, high-impact improvements rather than flashy rewrites.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, New Media and Communication Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, New Media and Communication Technology at Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen - Vlaamse Autonome HogeschoolHigh School, Industrial Information and Communication Technology (I²CT), High School, Industrial Information and Communication Technology (I²CT) at V.T.I.Sint-Laurentius
English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (14)
windows10
window-management10
window-manager10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
win2d8
win32gui8
pywin328
win32com8
win648
pthreads-win328
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
workspacer/workspacer
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
a tiling window manager for Windows
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Stijn contributed significantly to the `workspacer` project, a tiling window manager for Windows, by modifying and extending core functionality within the bar and window management components. Their work included refactoring the `BarSection` class, implementing performance widgets for the bar, and adding events related to window swapping and movement. Furthermore, the user made changes to plugin loading mechanisms and improved the title widget to show all window titles. These modifications demonstrate a focus on both UI components and backend integration within the window manager.
windowswin32tiling-window-managerwindowtiling
denjukebox/workspacer
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
a tiling window manager for Windows
Contributions:9 PRs, 50 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year
windowstiling-window-managerwindowwindow-managementtiling
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