Rico van Zelst

My name is Rico van Zelst, I’m currently a Fullstack Development student at the Bit Academy in the Netherlands. I’m also a freelance web developer and I’m currently working on a few projects, both private and public. I specialize in building web applications with Laravel, and I also have experience with other frameworks and languages such as Astro, Angular, NodeJS, C# and some C++. I’m also a big fan of open source software and I try to contribute to open source projects when I can.

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