About me

Hello, I’m Frank Delporte, living in Passendale (Belgium), a software developer/technical lead/writer with more than 30 years of experience in video, multimedia, technical project management, digital signage, and (web) programming. I’m married to Conny and we have a music-playing-son Vik.

My current work tools are Java/GitHub/GitLab/Atlassian/IntelliJ IDEA/Visual Studio Code/AsciiDoc, but also use/used ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript, Angular, React, SQL Server, Flex, CSS, HTML5, Eclipse, QT, Python,…

I love to KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) and try to do this in everything I do.

Career

I started programming at the age of 10 when I got a Commodore 64 and discovered Basic and combined it with a relays-board to control my Lego trains. I was hooked and started to learn more and more about programming. The Commodore Amiga was my entry point into multimedia and I went to film/electronics/engineering school to discover the world of film, video, and television.

I took my first professional steps as a video editor for television and business movies. This soon brought me back to programming as my customers were looking for a solution to bring their video to CD-ROMs, DVDs, and the new thing at that moment: “the internet”…

During my professional journey I had various roles: self-employed building a website CMS system, web developer at a web agency, ten years at Televic Rail as developer and technical lead where I “fell in love” with Java and product development, technical lead at startup Eeve in December 2020 where I used Java for several backend services. Since June 2022, I’m a technical writer at Azul, the world’s only company focused solely on Java.

Achievements

In March 2023 I became a Java Champion, selected by other Champions, for my contributions to the Java community over many years, including writing articles, books, teaching, videos, and speaking at conferences and JUGs. Also contributing to open-source projects, like Pi4J, has been crucial in becoming a Java Champion.

In January 2024, I was nominated as a Vaadin Champion. I love to talk and write about “all things Java” because there are many excellent frameworks and libraries to build whatever fits a specific business need. Vaadin is one of those amazing Java tools created by brilliant people who make it available for free (or freemium) for everyone to build - in a simple way - any kind of tool they have in mind. Thanks to the many open-source tools and libraries within the Java system, we can create both professional and personal projects with ease.

Inspiring the Next Generation

I’m also the lead coach of the CoderDojo Belgium club in Ieper where we teach children (7-18) programming with Scratch, Arduino, Minecraft, Mindstorms,… since January 2014 (video WTV television channel).

Through speaking at conferences and JUGs, writing on various blogs and in magazines, I hope I can inspire the next generation of developers to learn, create, evolve their career, and have fun while doing so.

Work with me at CodeWriter

You can hire me for small coding jobs, writing, and presenting through my company CodeWriter bv.

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