Pascal Widdershoven
CTO at Kabisa - Software Artisans
Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPascal Widdershoven is a CTO and hands-on software engineer/architect based in Maastricht with 14 years of experience building full-stack and mission-critical systems. He leads technology and innovation at Kabisa while remaining deeply involved in coding, bridging strategic leadership with day-to-day engineering across mobile frontends, backend microservices and API gateways. His background includes architecting data-processing platforms for Philips and improving robustness in open-source projects like the Stringer RSS reader, where he worked on feed import resilience and URL normalization. A Cum Laude Software Engineering graduate, he pairs craftsmanship and customer focus with a relentless curiosity for learning — and a soft spot for cars.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bernardinus collegeBachelor of Science (Cum Laude), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (Cum Laude), Software Engineering at Fontys Hogescholen
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (9)
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rss10
url-encoding10
rss-reader10
reader10
urn10
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ruby10
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Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
stringer-rss/stringer
Aug 2014 - Sep 2017
A self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 5 PRs, 21 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Pascal primarily focused on improving the functionality and robustness of the Stringer RSS reader. Their contributions included refactoring the `FetchFeed` class to use named parameters, adding integration tests for handling feeds with invalid publication dates, and refactoring the feed importer to utilize story IDs for more reliable story identification. They also addressed URL handling, specifically normalizing story URLs, and included a fix to handle relative URLs. Additionally, the user made several code style improvements.
rssantirss-readerhostedfeedjira
kabisa/jenkins-docker
Apr 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 8 months
jenkinscontainersjenkins-plugindockerjenkins-jobs
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