Frédéric Van Aken

Full Stack Developer

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Skills

  • PHP (Laravel)

  • JS / TS (React)

  • Java (Spring Boot)

  • C# (.NET)

  • Containers

  • Terraform

Certificates

  • Foresight: Prototyping for a Sustainable Future

    Budapest Metropolitan University

Language

  • Dutch

    Native

  • English

    Fluent

  • Japanese

    Conversational

  • French

    Conversational

  • German

    Basic

Education

  • Karel de Grote, Antwerp

    Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Sciences

    2020 - 2024

  • Budapest Metropolitan University

    Foresight Project

    2022-10 - 2022-10

  • University of Antwerp

    Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Sciences

    2018 - 2019

Objective

Full Stack developer specialised in PHP (Laravel) and Javascript/Typescript (React). Currently learning more about DevOps and Terraform, eager to learn more about Cloud.

Highlighted Experience

  • Cloud Group NV · Full Stack Developer

    Mar 2025 - Present (1 year 2 months) · Full Time
    Antwerp, Belgium

    Part of a PHP full-stack development team specialised in telecom which required a brand new licensing management system, while navigating +10 year old legacy code and systems.

    PHP

    Laravel

    Javascript

    Node.js

    React

    Elasticsearch

    Containers

    GitLab

    MySQL

    Redis

    Nginx

    SSL

    Powershell

  • Kenze · Intern Developer

    Apr 2024 - Jun 2024 (3 months) · Internship
    Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium

    As an intern in Full Stack development I received the opportunity to work on an in-office app with the objective so colleagues from Kenze were able to set their attendances and create posts. Me and my intern partner were able to realise this project using a .NET backend with the use of a React Native frontend for which we used the Expo Framework.

    Typescript

    React Native

    React Native Expo

    C#

    .NET

    Azure

Experience

  • Cloud Group NV · Full Stack Developer

    Mar 2025 - Present (1 year 2 months) · Full Time
    Antwerp, Belgium

    Part of a PHP full-stack development team specialised in telecom which required a brand new licensing management system, while navigating +10 year old legacy code and systems.

    • Designed and implemented brand new licensing management components in Laravel, used in production by a 1000 clients
    • Implemented backend components in PHP/Laravel
    • Implemented frontend components in HTML/CSS/JavaScript
    • Wrote documentation for the new licensing management system, to be used by the support team
    • Refactored modal components into multi-page components
    • Implemented Laravel Livewire components
    • Implemented Tailwind CSS classes for all components
    • Replaced legacy PHP systems with Node Express.js API backend and React frontend using Typescript
    • Monitored production services using the Elastic Stack (ELK) with Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana
    • Implemented Laravel database migrations using PHP artisan for MySQL
    • Maintained Redis databases for PHP backends
    • Implemented 6 developer container images using Docker for local development on Windows with WSL2
    • Implemented Nginx container image for local development with automated SSL certifications
    • Migrated Powershell scripts to Make and WSL2
    • Implemented unit tests in PHP with PHPunit
    • developed entire user stories in an agile kanban environment
    • Maintained git code repositories on GitLab

    PHP

    Laravel

    Javascript

    Node.js

    React

    Elasticsearch

    Containers

    GitLab

    MySQL

    Redis

    Nginx

    SSL

    Powershell

  • Kenze · Intern Developer

    Apr 2024 - Jun 2024 (3 months) · Internship
    Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium

    As an intern in Full Stack development I received the opportunity to work on an in-office app with the objective so colleagues from Kenze were able to set their attendances and create posts. Me and my intern partner were able to realise this project using a .NET backend with the use of a React Native frontend for which we used the Expo Framework.

    • learnt how to use C# and .NET in a professional way
    • learnt much about Mediatr and other .NET libraries
    • learnt how to use React Native to build an app for both Android and iOS

    Typescript

    React Native

    React Native Expo

    C#

    .NET

    Azure