Simon Claessens
Lead Developer at Sortlist
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolSimon Claessens is a Lead Developer with 15 years of hands-on experience building web applications and guiding engineering teams at Sortlist since 2014. Based in Brussels, he blends a pragmatic civil engineering background from Université catholique de Louvain with deep web development expertise, enabling him to approach technical problems with structural thinking and attention to long-term maintainability. He has a track record of evolving product platforms through steady leadership and code contributions rather than flashy pivots, driving reliability and incremental improvement. Comfortable across the stack, Simon favors practical solutions that scale for agency and marketplace contexts. Colleagues know him for translating ambiguous product needs into clear engineering roadmaps and for staying committed to the same organization through multiple growth phases.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering at Université catholique de Louvain
French, English
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Github Skills (200)
authentication10
mvc10
rails-engines10
ruby10
state-machine10
activerecord10
schema10
relay10
snap10
visual10
binary-repository10
jwt10
html10
rails10
visual-programming-language10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sortlist/auth0-account-link-extension
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
An extension aimed to help link accounts easily
Contributions:65 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
accountsfirefox-addonlinkchrome-extension
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