Gerard Van Helden
Freelance Software Engineer at Self-employed
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolGerard Van Helden is a pragmatic freelance software engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building and leading web and backend projects across public and private sectors. He blends deep front- and backend craftsmanship with agile leadership, having served as lead developer and senior engineer for long-term clients and now running his own consultancy since 2018. Comfortable both writing code and coaching teams (recently at Focusweek), he focuses on delivering quality, maintainable solutions that align with business goals. Based in the Randstad, he pairs a technical background in informatica with a mathematics teaching degree, a mix that sharpens his analytical approach to problem solving. Not obvious from a glance: his career includes early community involvement moderating developer forums, reflecting a long-standing commitment to knowledge sharing and developer collaboration.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
HAVO, HAVO at Gereformeerde Scholengemeenschap RandstadMathematics teachers degree, Mathematics teachers degree at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
English, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
21reputation
2kreached
2answers
0questions
Github Skills (98)
bundle10
jinja210
foreign-data-wrapper10
symfony10
jq10
php10
redis-client9
ansible9
php-framework9
postgresql9
python9
redis9
docker9
command-line9
raspberry-pi9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
drm/install-util
Sep 2022 - Jul 2026
Contributions:91 pushes, 13 branches, 29 tags in 3 years 10 months
drm/mv8
Jul 2020 - Sep 2023
Contributions:6 releases, 1 PR, 36 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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