Front-end engineer
& architect

Helena Standaert

Experience

Front-end Developer / Domain Lead Web

icappsAntwerpen

As a developer at icapps I work on a range of projects for different clients. On top of that I take on the role of domain lead web, where I am responsible for innovation and knowledge sharing across the company.

Consultant

PàuAntwerpen

In the role of consultant I picked up the newest technologies on the market quickly. Pàu gave me the chance to grow as a developer and to build deep technical expertise.

Front-end Developer

SevenedgeTemse

At Sevenedge quality comes first. End-to-end testing, Sass, jQuery and Gulp became daily practice.

Service Engineer

Springbok agencyGent

Within the service team I delivered maintenance in every possible area for projects that had already shipped. A varied job that tested both soft skills and technical qualities.

Development Intern

iOAntwerpen

As an intern I contributed actively to the running projects in the company, mostly front-end work such as slicing designs, small JavaScript animations and cross-browser testing.

Skills

Languages & markup
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • SCSS
  • Node.JS
Frameworks & libraries
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Vue
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Storybook
  • Jest
  • Vitest
  • Playwright
  • Turborepo
Architecture & practices
  • Front-end architecture
  • Design systems
  • Accessibility (WCAG)
  • Web performance
  • Testing strategy
  • Code review
  • CI/CD
  • Agile / Scrum
Tooling & platforms
  • Git
  • Figma
  • Vite
  • Node.js
  • Docker
Leadership
  • Technical mentoring
  • Hiring & onboarding
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Knowledge sharing

PROJECTS

SPOQ

Lead Developer

Applying AI in the SDLC to add features and scale the Single Platform of Quality for one of the leading Belgian and European audit and surveyor companies.

  • Vue
  • Front end
  • AI

Digitaal Ondertekenen

Developer

Re-inventing one of the building blocks of Digitaal Vlaanderen to e-sign documents within the Belgian government, offering users a seamless experience on all sorts of devices.

  • Vue
  • Front end
  • BFF

NMBS simulator

Developer

A bare-bones price simulator for the new flex subscription offering of the Belgian railway company. It featured in an ad campaign, so performance and high availability were key factors in this development track.

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Front end

Amfori Portal

Developer

A platform that facilitates sustainability reporting. It consists of multiple modules that each have their own set of features under one overarching corporate identity.

  • React
  • Front end

UiTPAS

Developer / Product Owner

Building an MVP mobile app for UiTPAS. Publiq VZW wanted to digitise their user experience with an app that lets users scan on-site QR codes and earn rewards doing so.

  • React Native
  • Front end

Kinepolis Gift Shop

Developer

A custom-built e-shop for B2C and B2B customers, supporting multiple domains and multiple shops per country. Kinepolis manages all content in a CMS tailored to their needs.

  • React
  • Front end
  • CMS

Smart ways to Antwerp

Developer

An existing React Native application extended with a GPS component that guides users along their journey to Antwerp — the first app in Europe letting users navigate multimodal routes. We built a package exposing mapbox-navigation to React Native, with a dependency on a third-party route suggestion SDK.

  • React Native
  • Mapbox

City of Antwerp profile

Developer

A dashboard for the citizens of Antwerp with integrations for relevant services such as personal data, account management, appointments and the A-card. We also created a REST service to dynamically manage properties for a profile, plus integrations for MailChimp and Campaign Monitor.

  • React
  • REST

stad.gent

Developer

The city of Ghent migrated their website from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8+ and reinvented its visual style. Full accessibility was a hard requirement, so we built and documented components in HTML + (S)CSS + JS as a single source of truth and distributed libraries for React, Angular and more.

  • React
  • Drupal
  • Design system

Education

Certified Scrum Product Owner

Scrum AllianceAntwerpen

To fulfil my role as a developer even better I followed this training, which also allows me to help steer projects and to serve client needs more closely.

Bachelor Graphic and Digital Media

Arteveldehogeschool GentGent

In the proDEV specialisation I built up broad knowledge of both front-end and back-end skills.

Secondary education — ASO

Sint-LaurensinstituutZelzate

With six hours of mathematics a week, this education mainly gave me logic, broad general knowledge and common sense.

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