2024 - now
Business analyst at Kringwinkel Groep
Kringwinkel Groep is the collective of social and circular entrepreneurs in Flanders. My focus is the digitalisation of the Kringwinkel stores.
I build web applications that matter
Software developer from Dendermonde, Belgium. Ten years of systems that get used every day ... ticket sales, loyalty programmes, integrations between things that do not really understand each other.
What came off the drawing board
A selection of what is running. Some of it is mine, some I built for the organisation I was working at.
Noodletail.com
A workspace for notes, pages and tasks, in which every page stays a plain Markdown file on your own disk. No account, no server in between.
noodletail.com
Kringwinkel
At Kringwinkel Groep the shop floor is going digital: from book scanner to loyalty card.
kringwinkel.be
Laravel packages
Six packages on Packagist: VAT validation, Turnstile, usernames, GrapesJS and whatever else fell out of projects.
See the packages
Bugtail.eu
Errors, logs and traces from your own apps in one place, bundled into issues you can solve. Self-hosted, and it speaks the Sentry and OpenTelemetry SDKs you already use.
bugtail.eu
Shippingtail
Everything between the order button and the front door: shipping, tracking, and the questions that come after.
Coming soon
Ten years, and still running
100+projects delivered
10+years in IT
99,999%uptime on the hosting
1phone number, no wall of tickets
What you can call me for
Three things, and they hang together: building, integrating, keeping it running. The full range is under services, and what I know in depth is under expertise.
Bespoke software
An application that fits the way you work, rather than the other way around. Laravel, PHP, and a database that holds up.
Integrations
Getting two systems that want nothing to do with each other to talk anyway. Usually through an api, sometimes through a detour.
What I have connected alreadyHosting & email
Domain, hosting and email taken care of and maintained, so you no longer have to think about them. At scale I manage the environment at your own cloud provider.
Checking VAT numbers
One request, and you know whether a number exists and whose name it is in. The lookup goes to VIES and falls back on two other sources when it is down ... that saves a lot of failed checks.
Want more than the number, such as the directors, the branches or the annual accounts of a Belgian company, then that is on btwzoeken.be, a separate site built on the public registers ... without a paywall and without signing in.
GET /v1/btw/BE0720529757
{
"valid": true,
"name": "De Boeck, Hans",
"address": { "city": "Dendermonde" }
}
Where I have been
2021 - 2024
Head of IT at KiemKracht
KiemKracht is a sheltered employment company that helps people at a distance from the labour market into work. I was responsible for everything that was IT.
2020 - 2021
Business Systems Coordinator at fully
An e-commerce business that went all in on sit-stand desks during covid. I kept the integrations between the web shop and the warehouse upright.
Something to build, or something that is broken
Feel free to send an email. I usually reply the same day, and I will also say so when I think you are better off with something that already exists.