Kjell Knapen
Back End Developer at The Nørd
Heist-op-den-Berg, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolKjell Knapen is a back-end developer with nine years of experience building robust, secure server-side systems and a strong interest in cloud technologies and cybersecurity. He balances a day role at Craftzing with freelance work at The Nørd, delivering scalable applications and applying pentesting instincts to harden services. A former full-stack developer at Marbles, he brings practical front-to-back perspective and a command-line-first workflow. Kjell contributes to open-source tooling such as the Meilisearch PHP client, where he implemented API index interactions and improved test automation, highlighting his emphasis on quality and reliability. Based in Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium, he combines hands-on engineering with a continuous focus on secure, testable back-end design.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Interactive Multimedia Design, Bachelor's degree, Interactive Multimedia Design at Thomas More-hogeschool
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (9)
meilisearch10
unit-testing10
php10
api10
sdk10
apidoc10
testing10
endpoints9
endpoint9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
meilisearch/meilisearch-php
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
PHP client for Meilisearch
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Kjell primarily focused on implementing and testing backend functionalities for the Meilisearch PHP client. Their contributions included adding methods to retrieve and interact with indexes, specifically focusing on raw index information. They also refactored and moved tests to improve organization, along with adding new test cases for the implemented methods. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of API interaction and testing methodologies.
meilisearchphpsdk
kjellknapen/geekrunners
Oct 2017 - Apr 2020
Running app for school with leaderboards and challenges
Contributions:1 PR, 109 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
leaderboardsjobsearch
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