Hans Vertriest | Full-Stack Developers

About

Hey, I’m Hans, a 23 year old developer, living in Ghent and always looking for the next big challenge.

I studied Graphical and Digital Media at the Artevelde University of applied sciences where I got awarded ambassador of New Media Development. During my studies I interned at Bothrs and spend multiple summers working at Open Summer of Code (2020 and 2021). Next, after graduating, I decided to join the startup Bizzy as first employee.

I chose to dive head-first in a startup because of the ownership, big learning oppertunities and experiences that come with the startup culture. Now, while being at Bizzy, I’m working hard to deepen my knowledge in backend-development as that’s where my interests are currently taking me.

In my downtime you’ll find me reading a good science-fiction book, sweating in the “meta-verse” or just socialising with friends and family.

Stack

NodeJS, Typescript, Python

Express, GraphQL

MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch

React, Expo, NextJS

Docker, Digitalocean

Projects

Meteorium
Duckaway
Featured

Visualising Nasa's meteor data

For my bachelor’s project I wanted to combine my interest in space and data visualisation. After researching and investigating the flemish astronomy scenes, I decided to create a visualisation of the shooting star data gathered by the CAMS-project. The main goal of the project was proving that scientific visualisations can be UX-friendly and aesthetically pleasing.

Currently a new, open-source version of the Meteorium-API is in the making, which will implement daily updates of registered shooting stars.