Romeo Van Snick

About me

Highly effective software engineer with eight years of experience, known for delivering code that is maintainable and simple, even in the setting of complex problems.

Strong eye for design and product that steers conceptualization, delivers the right features and well-designed experiences.

Open and communicative, a team player with excellent leadership skills.

Education

Technical Skills

Golang, node.js, Python, Javascript, TypeScript, React, Redux, Webpack, Rollup, Ruby, Babel.js, HTML, CSS, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, CouchDB, MongoDB, Nginx, Lua, Docker, Kubernetes, Clojure(-script), Git, GraphQL, OpenAPI/Swagger, Shopify, and more.

Spoken Languages

Discogs

Discogs is the largest online database and marketplace for music collectors. Discogs builds tools and services to help the thriving community of users add and correct data in the database as well as to help sellers get the most out of their stores both online and offline.

• Deliver medium-to-large features all the way through from technical design to launch with little or no guidance.
• Architect a modern and scalable frontend codebase that is up to speed with modern best practices and ADA guidelines, resulting in a more performant and functional end product.
• Collaborate remotely with team members on troubleshooting and creating elegant solutions to complex problems.
• Active involvement in product discussions, ideation and decisions.
• Actively engage with members of cross-functional, product-focused squads to build a variety of features and services.
• Provide constructive and positive feedback to my team members and technical peers.
• Coach and mentor less experienced engineers while still maintaining deep individual and squad-level contributions.

The Things Network

The Things Network is building an open source backend for LoraWAN-enabled Internet of Things applications. They are focused on building tooling and a community around a shared and open IoT network infrastructure.

• Built the network management console, the success of which helped foster the public community.
• Built and maintained open-source community tooling–ranging from user-facing API's to SDK's in several languages.
• Communicated and collaborated with other team members as well as clients and business leads.
• Understood the more advanced technical aspects of the software product to be able to build a tool that is easy to use for the end-users.
• Facilitated workshops for clients as well as open-source community meet ups.
• Engaged on a daily basis with community members.
• Continual requirement analysis based on community feedback.
• Steered both the technical and operational efforts of the company, such as setting up the CI and QA processes to make the team more effective.
• Involved in the on-boarding, training and support of new hires and interns.

Milk and Cookies

Milk and Cookies is a small digital agency that works with both small and large customers but focuses on highly creative projects. This adverseness for the bland translates itself into the fact that technology is a first class member of the design and ideation process.

• Helped the creative team to create daring projects that needed creative use of web technologies.
• Responsible for making technical decisions as well as guiding freelancers and external contractors.