About Francois Huyzers

Technical Achievements:

• Built a Node.js CLI (package.json bin entry + shebang) runnable via npx github: directly from a private repo
• Supports multiple SPFx versions with structurally separate template folders per toolchain (1.21 gulp-based vs 1.22/1.23 Heft-based)
• Implemented placeholder token replacement and fresh GUID generation per web part using crypto.randomUUID()
• Auto-wires selected web parts into config.json and package-solution.json
• Pre-wires the standard stack: PnPjs v4, React Hook Form, Zod, TanStack Table, a getSP() factory, plus CLAUDE.md and lessons.md
• Supports multi-web-part selection in a single command (e.g. form, approvals, dashboard)

Business Impact:

• Eliminates repetitive manual scaffolding and post-generation cleanup on every new SPFx project
• Distributed straight from a private GitHub repo via npx, so no public npm publication or hosting is required
• Proposed combining the tool with the team Docker frontend/backend solution to share a single GitHub source of truth for templates

Technical Achievements:

• Built complete SPFx solution using React framework
• Implemented user authentication and role-based permissions
• Created responsive design working across desktop and mobile devices
• Developed admin dashboard for idea management and reporting
• Currently managing ongoing updates, bug fixes, and feature enhancements

Business Impact:

• Successfully deployed to production environment
• Serving several active users across the organization
• Facilitating employee innovation and idea management processes

Technical Achievements:

• Extended Zed's workspace, git, project and settings systems with more than twenty new Rust crates (panels, backends and a workflow engine) inside the Zed codebase
• Added zoom, pan and fit-view scaling to GPUI, which it previously lacked; upstream PR in preparation
• Built a workflow engine and visual editor with try/catch, if/else, loops and error paths, showing per-node results
• Built a database panel with simultaneous live SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL and MSSQL connections, a schema explorer, a relationship graph and a SQL workbench
• Built npm, NuGet and pip package managers with vulnerability scanning, plus one active-target interaction model across Node, .NET and Python
• Wrote a Zed-to-GPUI theme adapter so panels follow the active theme, checked across four themes

Business Impact:

• Demonstrates the ability to work in, and extend, a large unfamiliar Rust codebase
• Shows, with working panels, what a native panel API for Zed extensions would need to support
• Licensing documented: a GPL-3.0-or-later fork with Apache-2.0 and MIT components identified

Technical Achievements:

• Troubleshooting SharePoint Online issues and user requests
• Managing support tickets through ServiceNow platform
• Implementing fixes and improvements to existing SharePoint solutions
• Documenting solutions and creating user guidance materials

Technical Achievements:

• Architected a RAG pipeline on Supabase using Voyage AI embeddings and pgvector similarity search over a self-growing knowledge base, assembled into context for Groq inference
• Built an autonomous learning loop driven by pg_cron across five topics on staggered schedules: web discovery via Tavily, then chunking, embedding, deduplication, and opinion generation with zero human involvement
• Implemented a memory subsystem that records facts and resolves conflicts across conversations
• Built Conversation, Brainstorm, and Coding modes as streaming SSE edge functions, each mapped to its own model (Groq and Gemini) and system prompt
• Embedded the Twin natively into Mentenaz Forge via a direct Rust-to-Supabase streaming integration, alongside the original Flask-proxied terminal CLI
• Pre-loads identity documents directly from a dedicated identity table, bypassing embeddings, to keep persona stable under embedding rate limits

Business Impact:

• Demonstrates end-to-end ownership of a multi-service architecture (Supabase, Render, and multiple external AI APIs) as a solo build
• Functions as a continuously-learning personal assistant and coding/brainstorm partner that improves itself with no manual intervention
• Explored a SaaS multi-tenancy design as a potential path to productization

Technical Achievements:

• Built a Tauri v2 / Rust backend (161 Rust commands) with a React/TypeScript frontend using Monaco as the editor engine, backed by 15 Zustand stores
• Embedded a custom AI assistant directly into the IDE via a Rust-to-Supabase streaming SSE pipeline with a 5-provider fallback chain (Gemini, Groq, HuggingFace, Mistral, OpenRouter)
• Built a canvas-based Task Chain workflow editor and a Database panel supporting SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Supabase, and SQLite
• Achieves roughly 80MB RAM and 20% CPU under load with multiple schema graphs, .NET, and SQL panels running concurrently
• Set up a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline covering build verification, automated testing, and cross-platform release packaging for Windows and Linux

Business Impact:

• Serves as a flagship technical demonstration of full-stack systems engineering across Rust, React, and cross-platform desktop tooling
• v0.2.4 Developer Preview released to GitHub Releases across Windows (NSIS), Linux (.deb/.rpm/.AppImage)
• Targets a defensible niche: a Windows-first, Microsoft-stack-native IDE experience with a 33-feature roadmap spanning editor, and workflow tooling

Technical Achievements:

• Built a React/TypeScript/Vite front end styled with Tailwind, MUI, and shadcn/ui primitives
• Used Supabase Postgres and Auth for data and session-protected admin routes, with a clean separation between public read-only queries and authenticated admin CRUD
• Implemented Deno-based Supabase Edge Functions for contact notifications, contact replies, newsletter campaigns, and welcome emails
• Built dual active-state filtering for retail links, evaluating both platform-level and per-book link active flags
• Implemented an admin contact workflow with unread/read/responded status tracking and CSV export for newsletter subscribers

Business Impact:

• Full admin back office covering content, platform links, newsletter, and contact management, not just a public-facing site
• Automated newsletter and transactional email delivery via Resend-backed Edge Functions

Technical Achievements:

• Built full task CRUD with React Hook Form and Zod validation
• Implemented a drag-and-drop Kanban board driven by status values
• Added a reporting panel covering tasks by status, by assignee, and overdue count using charts
• Integrated Power Automate for due-date reminder emails
• Used TanStack Table for filterable, sortable list views and PnPjs v4 for list operations

Business Impact:

• Designed as a generic, reusable product deployable to any SharePoint Online site rather than tied to one tenant
• Zero-setup deployment: provisions its own data structures automatically on first run

Technical Achievements:

• Bypassed the SharePoint list-view threshold by querying through the Search API rather than list views
• Implemented batch-processing strategies for large datasets
• Built Power Automate flows for automated quarterly document-library creation
• Debugged complex flow issues including pagination, action-reference errors, and loop conditions

Business Impact:

• Replaced a manual standards-management process for a large industrial enterprise
• Handles a catalogue of over 8,000 controlled documents with reliable search and retrieval

Technical Achievements:

• Built an Azure Functions backend that resolves site information and ownership through the Microsoft Graph API
• Implemented multi-step request wizards with validation and approval routing
• Wired Power Automate flows for approvals, notifications, and provisioning
• Separated thin SPFx web part front ends from a shared serverless backend

Business Impact:

• Replaced manual, ticket-based IT workflows with self-service request and approval experiences
• Reduced service-desk load by giving users self-service discovery of site owners and access paths

Technical Achievements:

• Migrated a legacy Script Editor web part to a modern React-based SPFx solution
• Built contract submission forms with validation and document-library integration
• Implemented contract numbering, status lifecycle, and expiry-reminder logic
• Managed file upload with metadata via PnPjs

Business Impact:

• Digitised contract submission and tracking for multiple business units at a large enterprise
• Modernised a legacy solution ahead of Microsoft Content Security Policy enforcement that would have broken the old implementation

Technical Achievements:

• Authored a Zed extension providing SPFx snippets and task providers covering PnPjs, Microsoft Graph, Fluent UI, and gulp tasks
• Implemented built-in language definitions for PowerShell, Razor/cshtml, and SPFx localization patterns
• Published the extension following Zed conventions for manifest, licensing, and repository requirements

Business Impact:

• Open-source contribution usable by the wider Zed and SPFx developer community
• Improves day-to-day development productivity for Microsoft-stack developers

Technical Achievements:

• Built a full terminal UI in React using Ink, with list-to-detail-to-refreshed-list navigation and consistent Esc-to-back/cancel handling
• Authenticated via the GitHub CLI credential store rather than managing tokens independently, using gh as a shared behavioral core
• Implemented a computed 3-tier confirmation system (Enter, Y/N, and type-to-confirm) scaled to the destructiveness of the action
• Verified working end-to-end against real GitHub: authentication, repository detail views, invitations, repo creation, and cloning

Business Impact:

• Designed as a standalone CLI product with its own release path, ahead of being bundled into the wider Mentenaz Forge ecosystem
• Architecture doc functions as a shared contract between the standalone CLI and a future Forge GitHub panel, avoiding duplicated design work

Technical Achievements:

• Built custom in-app approval actions in SPFx rather than relying on native Power Automate approvals, giving full control over the approval UI and state transitions
• Implemented a request lifecycle with edit, submit, and withdraw states, including a confirm-with-reason modal for withdrawals and automatic notification to whichever approver currently holds the request
• Built an allocation screen for the IP Technology Analysis Senior Manager to assign incoming requests to individual team members for review
• Reused a decoupled email-notification pattern: the main flow writes to an Automation list, and a separate flow handles the actual email send
• Designed an admin section for managing lookup data (Business Units, Technology Areas, IPTA team members) so the workflow doesn't require code changes as the org structure evolves

Business Impact:

• Replaces an ad-hoc IP approval process with a structured, auditable multi-stage workflow spanning three distinct approval roles
• Gives the IP Technology Analysis team a dedicated allocation queue so review work is distributed and tracked rather than handled ad hoc

Technical Achievements:

• Designed a lightweight metadata-only initial load for site info (library, list, page, and subsite counts), with each count acting as a click-to-explore entry point that lazily fetches full contents on demand to stay under a sub-3-second load target
• Investigated and hardened the underlying permission-granting logic while integrating Access Requests: found and fixed inconsistent unique-permission-walking coverage across Folder, List, and Document Library request types, and closed an unconditional site-level grant gap for Document-type requests
• Built the Access Requests panel against the live SharePoint Access Requests list schema, correctly interpreting both group-based and role-definition-based permission requests
• Added pagination to the Access Requests panel and a lightweight nearing-expiry visual indicator, scoped deliberately to avoid duplicating SharePoint's existing admin-notification behavior

Business Impact:

• Gives site owners a single dashboard to both understand site activity and act on pending access requests, replacing separate tools and manual checks
• Two-tier experience keeps the interface relevant to each audience: members see activity and popular content, owners see actionable approval work