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Melle, Vlaanderen, België

Gent, Vlaanderen, België

As a Software & Solution Architect at ACLVB, the role involves designing and guiding the implementation of technical solutions to support the organization’s digital transformation. The focus is on creating scalable, secure systems that enhance user experiences and align with business objectives. Key responsibilities include applying Domain-Driven Design principles, transitioning systems to microservices, and integrating legacy systems with modern technologies. Mentoring developers, maintaining architectural standards, and exploring innovative technologies are essential aspects of the work to ensure readiness for future challenges.

Brussel, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, België

As a Software Development Team Lead on the Security & Anti-Fraud team, I lead the development of solutions that enable robust customer authentication and signing through the use of various tokens. Additionally, we are developing a sophisticated fraud-detection engine.

Gent, Vlaanderen, België

- [01/2023 - 12/2023] Serving as a Staff Engineer in helping to re-architect the POI generation process, serving and swarming between 5 different teams, and hands-on coding as co-crafting the software landscape on lower and higher levels. Our mission is to become the market leader regarding POIs and navigable maps in general. The leading technologies are Databricks, Spark, Scala, and Java.- [10/2022 - 01/2023] Part of an international team (+- 35 engineers) that is rethinking software and processes that aim to provide TomToms digital maps with best-in-class Points of Interest (hotels, restaurants, parking, shops...), combining the best of what the community and TomTom have to offer.- [05/2022 - 10/2022] Responsible for serving teams with a focus on engineering the core Operational Data Plane of the new TomTom Maps Platform, with a heavy emphasis on incremental, freshness, and real-time maps and an architecture that is heavily inspired by the data mesh ideology. The leading technologies are Confluent Kafka, Azure, and Java.- [01/2021 - 05/2022] Head of CPP Service Platform, growing other engineering managers, a project manager, an architect, and a fantastic bunch of 15 engineers. We focus on enabling peer engineering teams to reach elite software delivery performance and operational excellence. We focus on providing opinionated tools covering the entire software delivery lifecycle, allowing other teams to focus on what truly matters. We reduce their extrinsic cognitive load while spearheading innovation, playing a crucial role in our software ecosystem's continuous improvement and modernization. The leading technologies are Kubernetes, Azure, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, and ArgoCD.

Gent, Vlaanderen, België

- Engineering in the T&D department, evolving the software landscape to a higher level of automation and autonomy, which can provide real-time maps and incremental updates to the end customer. The leading technologies are Java, Spring, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, CQRS, and AWS.- Partial cloud migration from AWS to Azure of the CMR software stack.- Engineering CMR self-service software for mapmakers to configure and manage their map layers, decreasing the necessary support to be given by our engineering teams. The leading technologies are Java, Spring, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS.- Managing young and seasoned engineers, helping them and myself grow in their professional careers.

Gent, Vlaanderen, België

- Initially invested in QA software guaranteeing the quality of maps, optimizing performance by introducing state-of-the-art technologies like Hazelcast, enabling grid computing to achieve higher throughput in checking the consistency of maps.- Initiator of a brand new greenfield workflow system, intending to deliver a backbone for all TomTom Maps-related activities. This workflow system needs to support manual (e.g., human verification of map changes) and automated processes (GPS probing). Java, Activiti/Flowable, Spring Boot/Cloud, RxJava, and Kafka are the leading technologies, with a front-end built in Angular/TypeScript.- Engineering in the T&D department, evolving the software landscape to a higher level of automation and autonomy, which can provide real-time maps and incremental updates to the end customer. The leading technologies are Java, Spring, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, CQRS, and AWS.

Brussel, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, België

Hands-on Software Architect/Developer for the project INT, which is part of the larger NewTM project. INT is a core Infrabel application used for managing the railway network topology. It provides a rich client (mix Swing/JavaFX) and several sophisticated graph algorithms helping the users manage geographical railway topology data.

Brussel, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, België

Designated Software/Solution Architect for the New Traffic Management project, replacing core railway management software with more innovative solutions and integrating them into an existing software landscape. The leading technologies are Java, Spring, Apache Camel, and Oracle Coherence.

Brussel, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, België

Part of the ARTEMIS (Advanced Railway Traffic Electronical Management Information System) team, as well as advisor, architect, and developer. The ARTEMIS suite consists of the core applications of Infrabel. It consists of the railway infrastructure, train planning, real-time follow-up and manipulation of traffic, archiving, and statistics/capacity tools.Primarily engaged in co-creating real-time follow-up applications for signallers, enhancing the automation of train traffic regulation by combining forecasting and conflict detection with automatically manipulating the train traffic.The leading technologies are Java, Spring, Swing, and JavaFX.

Master, Computer Science

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