Jovi De Croock

Software Engineer

When growing up I discovered a passion for IT, this grew into me working at a hardware store and eventually into finding my passion for programming. This passion turned me to study software engineering, find freelancer assignments and eventually my first job.

Nowadays I find myself enjoying work on both front-end as well as back-end systems. Finding elegant solutions to complex behavior is my favorite challenge. Another thing I find a deep interest in is optimising performance.

A second passion that has grown over the years is open-source, I love working in the open and I love collaborating with others to solve problems.

Experience

  • VHTI Dendermonde - Hardware
  • HoGent - Applied IT
  • Codifly - Web and Mobile engineer
  • Formidable - Senior software engineer - Tech lead
  • Stellate - Staff Software Engineer

Skills

(P)React

GraphQL

Node.js

TypeScript

Terraform

AWS

SQL

Open source projects

  • Preact maintainer (core team)
  • Urql maintainer (core team)
  • Prefresh - Fast-refresh for Preact
  • Hoofd - Lightweight (P)React head library

Achievements

  • Google Open Source Peer Bonus - Q4 2019
  • Helped implement a complex entity-level authorisation system
  • Tennis handicap prediction algorithm, focussed on beating bookmakers
  • First prize at Hack The Future 2016 - Android

Interests

  • Psychology
  • Philosophy
  • Music