Thomas Ghysels
Full Stack Developer at thomasg.be
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Ghysels is a Full Stack Developer based in Ghent, Belgium with 12 years of experience building user-friendly web and native applications primarily using TypeScript and React. He combines long-term freelance/agency work (thomasg.be, Nimble, Healthblocks) with hands-on contributions to notable open-source projects, including routing and navigation fixes for Sapper (Svelte) and UX improvements in Payload CMS. Thomas has tackled both front-end polish—fixing cursor/jump issues and dynamic textarea growth—and cross-platform UI/internationalization challenges, for example in the Electrum Bitcoin Wallet. Comfortable across the full stack, he brings pragmatic problem-solving from prototypes to production and a knack for improving developer and user workflows. Colleagues will notice his attention to navigation edge cases and small UX details that disproportionately improve product quality.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Economics Math, Economics Math at Sint-JanscollegeJust the first year Bioscience Engineer, Just the first year Bioscience Engineer at Ghent UniversityBachelor's Degree ICT Electronics, Bachelor's Degree ICT Electronics at Odisee
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (33)
ec10
url-routing10
content-management-system10
cms10
javascript10
python10
typescript10
internationalization10
el10
nextjs10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
content-management10
payload10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
sveltejs/sapper
Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
The next small thing in web development, powered by Svelte
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 12 PRs, 91 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily addressed issues related to routing and URL handling within the Sapper framework. They fixed bugs where the application encountered problems with invalid hash selectors and routes when the URL started with a question mark. Additionally, the user implemented redirect functionality, ensuring basepath handling was correctly implemented. Their contributions focused on improving the client-side experience and ensuring correct navigation within the Sapper application.
svelte-kitjavascriptsveltesappersveltejs
payloadcms/payload
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Payload is the open-source, fullstack Next.js framework, giving you instant backend superpowers. Get a full TypeScript backend and admin panel instantly. Use Payload as a headless CMS or for building powerful applications.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 5 commits, 11 PRs in 15 days
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the front-end and configuration aspects of the Payload CMS framework. Their work involved fixing UI issues such as cursor jumping in text inputs and increasing the click area of textareas. They also implemented a feature to allow textareas to dynamically grow based on their content. Additionally, they made improvements to TypeScript comments within the configuration files.
cmspayloadcmsexpressreact-jsdashboard
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