Hi, I'm Chris a full stack developer

15+ years development experience

I am a dutch 🇳🇱 citizen living in South Africa 🇿🇦, I love developing, writing and my wife.

These are skills I've mastered over the years

Skills I'm super comfortable with

Skills I'm mastering

Things I'm proud of

Yaatree

Our amazing puppy, who goes on all kinds of cool adventures

Daily Dev Tips

My Daily Development Tip Blog!

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My Neighbor Totoro

Completely build in CSS

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HQ Pack Service Center

Symfony backend, with Angular front-end service center.

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A hitchhiker's guide to Chris's life

2030

Senior full stack remote developer ☁️

It's my dream to be a senior full-stack developer who can work remotely.

2021

Got married 🍾

We got married in the mountains of South Africa

Blogged for a year non-stop

Every single day one article!

2020

Got engaged 💍

My beautiful wife Nicole said, Yes!

Started daily-dev-tips 🚀

I started my blog, where I write daily development tips to help new people!

Moved back to South Africa ✈️

This time for Laméco I moved back to South-Africa and fell in love with the country again.

2016

Senior developer 💪🏻

I started as a senior developer at Laméco, working mainly on Symfony, Angular, and node.js projects. I also was responsible for mentoring students and new employees.

2015

Full-time app developer 📱

I got hired by Bengees, a mobile app startup, to be the lead developer on an Ionic app!

2014

First time to South-Africa 🇿🇦

A nice perk of Engagement Factory was a work trip to South Africa, little did I know I would fall in love with the country.

Medior developer at engagement factory 🤓

My hard work paid off, and I became a Medior Developer at Engagement Factory, picked up a lot of JavaScript, PHP and Marketing skills.

2013

Started my own company 🤯

The moment I Graduated I also started my own company, which I still have on the side.

Graduated at Fontys 🎓

Graduated the communication and multi-media Design course at Fontys Eindhoven.

2012

Won the Atos IT challenge 🏆

In 2012 we entered the ATOS IT challenge, our team "MultiLens" finished first in this worldwide competition. My role in this project was project managing, development en thinking on features, and the global idea.

First tech job 🥳

Started working as a PHP Developer for ScriptMotion, programming in CodeIgniter.

1989

I was born 👶

This is where the whole journey started.

Don't take my word for it

Nicole Bongers ~ Wife

Chris is an amazing husband and dog father!

Guus Meuwissen ~ Colleague

'Ridiculously fast' is the phrase that comes to mind when I think about Chris. I had the please of working with Chris for around 2 years at Engagement Factory, while collaborating on several project teams. Chris's ability to juggle multiple projects while always committing to the highest quality is truly exceptional. Hence the reason I would say Chris is one of the most dedicated professionals I've worked with and he's always willing to go the extra mile to help you when needed. Thanks Chris!

Amer Jaganjac ~ Mentee

Chris is a very intuitive and skilled mentor. I had enjoyed learning from him. Chris made efforts in pointing out fields for development in my professional performance, and advising me on how to become a better IT professional. Thank you Chris!