About Francis
- Freelance iOS developer since 2010. Shipped apps for banking (Belfius), travel, and insurance.
- Mostly hands-on development; product ownership on an early travel app (2010) and full product ownership of Chalk Rebels since 2020 (B2C/B2B: physical products, shop, social, wholesale).
- Pragmatic AI-assisted dev: human architecture & design, AI where useful.
- Looking for freelance work on digital products: strong mobile engineering & product ownership XP.
- Flexible & Pragmatic: MVPs, native app delivery, rebuilds, web/data/mobile as necessary.
French
Native or bilingual
Dutch
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
German
Fluent
Can work on-site
Leuven (up to 50km)
Experience
- CHALK REBELSFounderSPORTSJuly 2020 - Today (5 years and 11 months)Leuven, BelgiumFounder, Chalk Rebels (2020). Climbing chalk and skincare: I run B2C and B2B product and opsProduct development end-to-end: physical line (formulas, packaging, trademarks) plus digital (shop, internal tools) ... idea to live product on both sides.B2C: online shop, catalog, site, social media.B2B: wholesale to climbing gyms; outreach backed by a gym list I built (~2,600 venues).Gym DB as Tech Edge: crawlers, dedupe, geocoding, published as SEO pages + leads for cold-calling.
- Self-EmployedMobile Developer (iOS)January 2010 - November 2020 (10 years and 10 months)Brussels, Belgium
- Freelance iOS developer since the early App Store (~2010): design, build, and ship mobile apps for clients in banking (Belfius), travel, and insurance.
- Work spanned product ownership and hands-on development :requirements, UX, native iOS, release and iteration, not just implementation tickets.
- Founded Chalk Rebels in 2020 (climbing brand); ran product and ops B2C/B2B while still building software and data tools in-house.
- Now looking to return to freelance tech work, with a focus on product development / product ownership and digital products : stay close to the code, not only strategy.
- Comfortable owning a product 0 to 1 or improving an existing app: mobile-first, but open to web and backend where the product needs it.
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