Joren Van Hocht
Product Owner at Hochtie
Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolJoren Van Hocht is a Belgium-based product owner and seasoned PHP/Laravel engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading e-commerce platforms. At Take The Lead he wears many hats—Product Owner, Team Lead, Delivery Manager and Software Architect—combining hands-on backend expertise with cross-functional delivery and support responsibilities. He founded Hochtie (formerly CodeSwitch), bringing entrepreneurial experience in client work, DevOps and hosting alongside agency roles at Wunderman and These Days. Known for pragmatic architecture and shipping reliable Laravel systems, he also organizes local PHP meetups, signaling active community leadership beyond his day job.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Coloma plusBachelor Multimedia Technology, Bachelor Multimedia Technology at Karel de Grote-Hogeschool
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (164)
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excel10
laravel10
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media-library10
laravel-package10
phpoffice10
php10
social-share10
phpexcel10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
takethelead/laravel-storyblok-file-proxy
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
Proxy Storyblok files through Laravel
Contributions:7 releases, 7 reviews, 27 commits in 2 years 4 months
laravelproxystoryblok
Blogify/Blogify
Mar 2015 - Jun 2017
Laravel 5 blog package
Contributions:29 releases, 39 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 4 months
laravel
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