Bas Van Gaalen

Current

Owner at webtweakers (Self-employed)

Past

Lead Engineer at Videostrip
Senior Software Developer at TomTom
Intranet software developer at ABN Amro

Software engineer / Developer at Sogyo

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Education

Fontys Hogescholen

Recommended

7 people have recommended Bas

Connections

128 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

My Website

Bas Van Gaalen’s Summary

Bas van Gaalen, who graduated from the polytechnic of Eindhoven with a degree in Applied Physics, is a senior web application developer. Particularly interested in smart use of open source technologies, adaptations of internet standards, client/server programming, development of online communities. Currently available as part-time freelancer.

Bas Van Gaalen’s Specialties:

Specialities range from back-end to front-end, server to client: PHP, MySQL, Javascript, Dynamic XHTML, CSS, etc.

Bas Van Gaalen’s Experience

Owner
webtweakers (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

January 2000 — Present (9 years 11 months)

Webtweakers is the label I use for my open source software distributions and freelance work. Please see my website for more information: www.webtweakers.com.
Lead Engineer

Videostrip

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — July 2009 (1 year 7 months)

Senior software developer
Senior Software Developer

TomTom

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

July 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 6 months)

Web developer at TomTom's Desktop & Services department, responsible for TomTom HOME server development, PLUS Portal development and other projects (currently in the making). Specialising in front-end developing, but not shy of implementing other layers.
Intranet software developer

ABN Amro

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

January 1999 — December 2000 (2 years )

Started of as a R&D position, but shifted to web developer for part of the bank's intranet web applications.
Software engineer / Developer

Sogyo

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )