
Roadwork is the company founded for achieving my ultimate mission: "Improving efficiency through use of Autonomous Systems". 

Roadwork


I created Scraper.AI as a sideproject to brush up my application development skills and solve a problem that I was having before: Extracting content from a website in a structured, repeatable way with change detection. This to power other ideas such as Changelog Automation, Price Monitoring and Newsletter Automation.


Scraper.AI


I got the chance to be at the front wheel development drive of Helpper.be, a social homecare project that wants to help people in need through the sharing economy in Belgium. I joined this statup as the first employee acting as their CTO.

## My Role

As a CTO, I decided and helped create the first iteration of the web platform - primarily focused on backend. Next to that, I oversaw 2 freelance teams, one focused on UX and one focused on creating the frontend.

## Outcome

After being offered a position at Microsoft as a new grad, I decided to pursue my career in technology rather than the healthcare sector.

Helpper


KumulAid is a website where people can donate for the charity that they support, by partnering with companies we are able to match users their donations and make a bigger impact. For example, when a user donates 10Eur, we are able to give the charity 20Eur because of this matching component.

## My Role

As a CTO my rule was to manage the complete technical side of the platform, this included developing the whole website system and donation system for both the Backend and Frontend.

## Outcome

I left this project to focus on my own career path at Microsoft, to get more technical and get to know strategy at a high level.

KumulAid


Brewr was a project that I started back in June 2015. The intention of this project was for companies to be able to manage their development environments, and get their developers up and working within minutes instead of hours. This solution was based on a simple to use GUI system that could work on Mac, Windows and Linux operating systems so that companies would not need any inner knowledge of the development languages. It was made possible by cutting edge technology such as Docker and Electron.

## My Role

I started this project and did the complete development part on the Backend and the Frontend, next to that I also designed the Dashboard with all it’s subsections.

## Outcome

Eventually I halted the project due to a lack of time, maybe in the future I will resume and finish it, but until then you can find the source code here: https://github.com/Xaviergeerinck/Brewr-Site


Brewr


Everbit was a project that I started together with Jesper Lindstrom to revolutionize the way we work with SQL databases. The goal of this project was to allow us to work with databases, as we worked with git. When a developer changed the database locally, and wants to push the changes of this database to a public repository, the only thing he/she had to do was run a small CLI command and push those changes to the online Everbit repository. In the background, the Everbit servers would then generate a SQL Upgrade and Downgrade migration script, that allows the user to rollback, or fast-forward to any required version.

The whole system and website were written in PHP and the infrastructure was automated with Ansible (to allow our infrastructure to scale when we needed more comparison databases)

## My Role

I was responsible for creating the whole project Backend wise (API/Infrastructure/DB Migration Creation/CLI Tool) while Jesper was responsible for the Design and Frontend.

## Outcome

The project made it into a Alpha version with every feature possible, but was halted due to the lack of time and more needed market research. If an opportunity comes around again in the future, we could reconsider restarting this project.


Everbit


Feedient was a social media aggregator which goal was to unify and gather all social feeds into one easy-to-use overview. The platform was developed as a clean and minimalistic modern web application with support for six content providers; Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube (subscription feed), Tumblr and RSS. The social feeds were presented side-by-side as an overview and utilized modern real-time streaming techniques for content updates.

All the source code can be found here: https://github.com/Feedient

## My Role

My main tasks on this project were:

* Automatic provisioning of the servers and development environment through Vagrant and Docker
* Creating, managing and testing the backend in Node.js
* Ensuring the quality on the backend by writing unit tests.
* Integrating more social providers such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Tumblr
* Making sure the site stays up and running 24/7 (We had a peek of 3.000 new people within the first hour after being featured on Lifehacker)
* Creating the initial Android application

## Accomplishments

* 3.000 new users within the first hour after being featured on Lifehacker
* Featured on key websites such as Lifehacker, Buffer, Knack, ...
* 20.000 new users within the first week of going live

## Outcome

Feedient launched it’s public beta in April 2014 and was shut down a year later, in April 2015, partly because of increasingly tough third party restrictions from the social networks ([read all about it](http://www.quora.com/What-has-Facebook-done-to-their-API-terms-that-made-Feedient-shut-down-and-Pixable-face-some-problems-with-their-app/answer/Jesper-Lindstr%C3%B6m?srid=22qn&share=1)). During this year we obtained about 80 000 unique visitors, peaking at about 400 concurrent visitors. Collectively all visitors spent a jaw-dropping 26 years of time using our service, at one hour per visit on average – something which we’re very proud of. We were also featured in tech publications such as [Lifehacker](http://lifehacker.com/feedient-puts-your-twitter-facebook-and-instagram-fee-1569416764) and [Olhar Digital](http://olhardigital.uol.com.br/noticia/site-reune-facebook-twitter-youtube-e-instagram/41719) by Brazilian UOL.

Feedient


Nerdflow was a project that was started by Jesper Lindstrom when he was 15, whereafter I joined at the age of 17 to help recoding parts towards the CodeIgniter framework. Nerdflow was designed to be a social network for developers where they could find jobs, post code, chat with people. It was shut down in the same year since Facebook was too popular.

Nerdflow


FusionCMS was a Content Management system that I and a friend of mine (Jesper Lindström) created. It allowed our clients that bought it to host their own Content Management System for their game server. This way users for our clients were able to manage their in-game accounts on those servers with the use of our Content Management System.

## My Role

My main responsibilities were developing the back-end and helping out on the front-end where needed. I also collaborated with Jesper on customer support and back-end development.

## Accomplishments

* At the age of 15, create a CMS that has the features regular CMS's (blogging, pages, RBAC, ...) but also had in-game communication such as an Armory/Character Management/Account/Item Sending/...
* Realize a paying customer base of 250 customers with a license cost of 50$ each
* Implement a Role Based Access Control System (RBAC) at this age, which is a very complicated system where many companies today still have problems with

## Outcome

Within a month we solved several hundred copies at our own created FusionHub landing page. Where we also sold third-party themes and modules that where both free and paid. After 3 months we both grew tired about the scene and decided to quit. This is when we sold FusionHub and FusionCMS for an undisclosed amount. Today the day you will still find it running but under different owners. When we look back we can proudly say that our platform is used for over 70% off the entire World Of Warcraft scene.
