Martin Van Aken

All things development related at Open Compass and Farm For Good - a cooperative of farms active in agroecology and sustainable practice at a fair price for the farmers.

Coaching a group of motivated student to deliver a project around Solid and LinkedData

Belgium

Freelance programmer, team leader and coach. I'm helping teams to develop better software, and entrepreneur to create their MVP. I advise early stage startups on software development issue, acting as external mentor/coach.

Mentoring/Coaching/Advising the Recovr Technical Team

Développement d'une centrale d'achat pour le secteur non marchand belge.

Coaching a group of refugees learning web development.

Mission with WHO and UNICEF to optimize funding allocation

Helping the Travelsify team with their scale up effort by automating various processes

Develop a dashboard to showcase anomalies and dangerous processes detected by the Parcoor threat detection system.

I help convert researcher work into practical products. Work on knowledge graph, data pipeline and query interfaces.

Technical consultant for a WHO large scale project including mobile data collection, data transformation pipeline, data lake and multiple user facing application.

Teaching React Native to a group of blind & visually impaired students.

I'm part of a team coding a SaaS product giving reporting on water consumption and automatic detection of water leaks.

Coaching 20 candidates entrepreneurs, teaching them how to code their own startup MVP. More information about our program there: http://www.lewagon.org/program.

Organizing events to enrich the Belgian Ruby Community - come meet us at rubybelgium.be

Coaching a group of people from BNP PF on Front End Skills - HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, React. 5 weeks of intensive, hands-on bootcamp.

I'm creating the prototype of Travel Tech startup, building the product as they define and evolve their business. Auto tagging & categorization of hotels & reviews using Ruby, Python, NLP on AWS and SoftLayer.

Java consultant at Swift. Analyse of legacy systems, assert of team capabilities, design proposals. Set up of good tools and practices (agile methodologies, unit testing, java good practices). I'm there to keep the business in mind and to keep options open.

We are working to enhance the developers capacities to build meaningful software. We have created PullReview, an automated code review system for Ruby and Rails developers. Interested ? go to pullreview.com

I oversee TagTagCity various technical challenges, from development team organization to design and technical roadmap. I receive the business requirements and work with the technical team to meet them.

Mission at the European Commission, DG DEV, in the context of EC program "Toward the e-Commission", aiming at improving the usage of IT among the Commission, and to make it more efficient by its good usage. I had contact with many different people in this highly international environment to collect and understand their usage of the different tools that the IT provided, and to propose and implements solutions and improvements, notably making an evaluation for the implementation of a Document Management tools in the DG.

The ESI trains future programmers in all the relevant aspect of the job, including programming courses in both low and high level languages, analyse methodology, database concepts among others. I did teach several different programming courses in Assembly, C, C++ and Java, following the student groups and evaluating them. I also took part to the design of redesign of many lessons books. I also followed some of his students in their work in end-study internship in different companies.