About me
I’m living in Belgium, in the province of Limburg. I am working at Mensura as an application architect. I’m also the owner and founder of Klingeleers VOF, together with my brother. We are working for clients and doing projects for ourselves, also in the field of web and app development.
I’ve been participating in a K9 search and rescue team with Searchdog@work. My own dog has pensioned a few years ago, so I’m no longer actively participating with training my dog. I’m still a board member at this organisation.
My native tongue is Dutch (or Flemish actually), so there might be some spelling mistakes in the posts. I hope to keep them to a minimum though. In my spare time I like to run. I’ve participated in a marathon and some trail runs, with more to come.
How I got to where I am now
In college I learned one thing that’s extremely important for a developer’s career. That one thing is being able to learn new skills quickly and easily by myself. It’s proven to be a very valuable skill to have. You can compare it a lot to travelling. Staying in one place for too long get’s boring. The same goes for development skills, you have to travel around and taste from other cultures. Some may feel very strange but every experience, either good or bad, adds to your tool belt.
I started my career as a .NET/Java developer. Not being picky about a particular language, I landed a job as a .NET developer. For the first few years I have been building internal batch processing software, some web related and Windows applications (in all sorts of .NET technology). After this period I felt like it was time for a change so I got to a new department, where the focus was on public facing web development. This proved to be a whole new challenge, but again I quickly got up to speed with it.
After a few department hops, and a move to consultancy since then, I finally am where I am today. That is my job as an Application Architect. I have a good understanding of the complete stack of software systems, which proves to be very valuable to the team. My experiences on iOS, Android, Xamarin, AngularJS, Azure, ALM, Mobile Device Management will be displayed on this website, so don’t be surprised if a lot of posts will be about these topics…
Why this initiative?
Since I’m dealing with so much stuff at the same time, this blog will provide me a way to journal the things I’ve worked on and things that amazed me in the process. Hopefully some posts will be valuable for you. By all means challenge me on the things I’ve posted, as I’m constantly seeking to learn more.
Disclaimer
This is a personal blog. The views and opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of the people, institutions or organizations that I may or may not be related with unless stated explicitly.
My thoughts and opinions change from time to time as I come to learn more and develop my understanding about the things and issues that I am blogging about. This blog just provides a snapshot of the knowledge, views, and opinions that I hold at a particular point of time and these might most probably change over a period of time. I reserve the right to evolve my knowledge, thoughts, and viewpoints over time and to change them without assigning any reason.
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