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Stijn Mathysen
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Essen, Belgium
Toptal member since November 1, 2013
Bio
Stijn (pronounced “Stan”) is a pure freelance developer. He mainly develops web and iOS (iPhone, iPad, etc.) applications. He's a devoted Mac user, but his roots lie in Windows. Now and then Stijn develops Win32 and ASP apps as well.
Portfolio
Skylight
PHP, Java, Android, Objective-C, Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Weblogik
Delphi, PHP, Active Server Pages (ASP)
Yooz - Elsevier Training
Delphi, Active Server Pages (ASP)
Experience
- Agile Software Development - 8 years
- Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 6 years
- Ruby - 6 years
- jQuery - 5 years
- ThinkingSphinx - 5 years
- Objective-C - 3 years
- Android SDK - 1 year
Preferred Environment
Ruby on Rails (RoR)
The most amazing...
...thing I've coded was an artificial intelligence engine that you can teach to classify certain objects.
Work Experience
Developer
2008 - PRESENT
Skylight
- Built and maintaining an online platform for construction workers (twizzi.be) that allows end users to find artisans in an easy way.
- Spoke at various European conferences (primarily on Rails).
- Took over multiple existing projects and continued to support and extend them.
- Created a crowd sourced Translation application (yousource.com).
- Contributed to various open source projects (own gems, Rails, ...).
- Created an iPhone, iPad and Android app for one of the biggest consumer retail stores in France.
- Created a scalable CMS with version based templates.
- Built a e-learning platform that learns employees to drive economic and eclogic at the same time.
- Created a web based management platform for geotags with the integration of text, audio and video. The text can be translated, so the end-user can visit the location and read information in his/her own language.
- Created a contract creation application for a big pharmaceutical company. The application exists of various routes the contracts follow through the company and the end customer. It has customizable templates and allows the company to check claims, made by wholesales (and reduce the amount of invalid claims to 0).
- Built a Sales Data & Budget Forecast application that eliminated the complex use of multiple Excel files.
- Built an online platform for artists from over the world to log in. It's Basecamp, with an artistic touch, video chat integration (using OpenTok) with an instant-translation chat functionality.
- Maintaining the official OpenTok gem on RubyGems.
Technologies: PHP, Java, Android, Objective-C, Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Developer
2002 - 2008
Weblogik
- Created a competence management system for the army.
- Built a single instance, molular CMS that supported multiple front-ends.
- Created "FileSafe", a pre DropBox file sharing platform.
- Created a competence management system "Compass", that allowed competences from multiple sources (functions, location, ...).
- Created an online learning system and an offline Content Creation tool.
- Created a document management system with an approval flow for local governments.
- Maintained and expanded the CMS of the biggest internet provider in Belgium.
Technologies: Delphi, PHP, Active Server Pages (ASP)
Developer
1999 - 2002
Yooz - Elsevier Training
- Built a Content Building software that created step-by-step e-learning instructions
- Created various server application to convert the offline content into online content.
- Maintained and supported e-learning on a cd-rom based e-learning platform.
- Implemented existing E-Learning environments (Blackboard, Content Devlivery Platforms, ...) and integrated custom e-learning into it.
- Created an application to do in-house sound records and attach the sound to the e-learning modules.
Technologies: Delphi, Active Server Pages (ASP)
Experience
Twizzi.be
http://twizzi.beRuby on Rails application that allows end users to find artisans in an easy way. The application is highly optimized for Google and various caching techniques are applied. A supporting iPhone app was built for the web application.
GiFi Mobile App
Mobile application for GiFi (iOS & Android).
Goesting in Lier
City guide for the city of Lier (Belgium, Dutch only) with beautiful pictures and maps integration.
Alacarte
http://rubygems.org/gems/alacarteAlacarte is my open source gem for Ruby on Rails that allows you to create menu structures in a domein specific language, like the routes file.
The gem works with other gems like "can can" to prevent menu items showing up for users that don't have the rights to see them.
The gem works with other gems like "can can" to prevent menu items showing up for users that don't have the rights to see them.
Education
1995 - 1997
Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial IT
VTIB - Antwerp, Belgium
1991 - 1994
High School Degree in Industrial IT
VTIB - Antwerp, Belgium
Skills
Libraries/APIs
ThinkingSphinx, jQuery, Facebook API
Tools
Sublime Text, TextMate, Xcode, Eclipse IDE, Microsoft Access
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails (RoR), Android SDK
Paradigms
Agile Software Development
Languages
Ruby, Objective-C, Java, Active Server Pages (ASP), Delphi, PHP
Platforms
MacOS, iOS, Android, Linux, Ubuntu, Windows
Storage
SQLite, MySQL, Redis, Microsoft SQL Server
Other
Content Management Systems (CMS), Caching
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