Jovi De Croock
Full-stack 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 computer science, 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. In companies I like to empower people to deliver their best work, a force multiplier for others, be that by working on DX or discovering solutions to problems together.
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 common development problems.
Experience
- Codifly - Web and Mobile engineer (2017-2019)
- Formidable - Senior software engineer - Tech lead (2019-2021)
- Stellate - Staff Software Engineer (2021-Now)
Open source projects
- I have been maintaining Preact since we started on the Preact X release-line at the start of 2019
- I created Prefresh which is like React Fast Refresh but for Preact
- In June 2019 I started helping out on the Urql project, a lightweight extensible GraphQL Client
- I created Hoofd as I wanted to properly manage the HTML head element through React hooks
- I maintain GraphQLSP a TypeScript LSP Plugin to properly support inline-hints/diagnostics/... while developing front-end GraphQL applications
- I maintain GQL.tada The magical GraphQL parser written in TS types, this tool automatically types your GraphQL Documents without codegen.
Skills
(P)React
GraphQL
Node.js
TypeScript
Terraform
AWS
Cloudflare
SQL
ClickHouse
Rust
Achievements
- During my time at Formidable, I functioned as a technical lead on modernising the tech-stack of Puma
- I've Helped develop the ESM HMR Spec
- I've received the Google Open Source Peer Bonus 2019 Cycle 2
Education
- VHTI Dendermonde - Hardware
- HoGent - Bachelor Computer Science