Wim Leers
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Acquia
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolWim Leers is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience driving Drupal core development and large-scale web performance improvements from Ghent, Belgium. He began contributing to open source as a student and turned a deep interest in web performance into a master's thesis and an internship on Facebook’s Site Speed team, analyzing over 100M samples/day. At Acquia he has led architectural efforts to modernize Drupal—shipping migration tooling, REST/JSON:API improvements, BigPipe/streaming rendering, and retrofitting performance and cacheability without breaking existing sites. He pairs deep technical troubleshooting for Fortune 500 customers with mentoring and long-term technical debt reduction across a decades-old codebase. An early founder of DriverPacks.net and an active contributor to projects like the Aloha Editor, Wim blends frontend UX refinements with systems-level thinking. Quietly, he prefers solving the hardest infrastructure problems in open source rather than chasing product glory, which has kept him central to Drupal’s evolution since 2012.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Latin-Math, Latin-Math at Virga-Jesse CollegeBachelor with honors, Computer Science, Bachelor with honors, Computer Science at Universiteit HasseltLatin-Math, Latin-Math at Ursula-Instituut
English, Dutch, French, German, Latin
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Github Skills (20)
aloha10
javascript10
css10
ui-design10
editor10
uid10
front-end-development10
qt9
timestamp9
html8
multimedia6
interpreted-language6
macos6
bittorrent6
qmake6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor
Jul 2012 - Oct 2012
Aloha Editor is a JavaScript content editing library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Wim primarily focused on enhancing the Aloha Editor's functionality, specifically within the "captioned image" plugin. Their contributions involved refactoring and expanding the plugin's features, including adding image alignment options, improved CSS styling, and allowing users to customize the block's class. The user also cleaned up code, updated documentation, and fixed issues related to data attributes to make the editor more user-friendly. They refined existing features and addressed several usability concerns.
contenteditablewysiwygjavascriptalohapulse
wimleers/flexitimer2
May 2010 - Apr 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 5 years
configurablearduino-libraryresolutionarduinotimer
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