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Work Experience

• Lead developer, 

  Dec, 2021 - Feb, 20253 years 2 months

  • Update the application to Spring Boot 3

  • Update the olingo library to work with Spring Boot 3

  • Fixed various pipeline issues

  • Hired a senior QA

  • Managed 2 FTE

• Consultant, 

  Aug, 2005 - Dec, 202116 years 4 months

  After completing my internship, I decided to join the company. Throughout the years I've worked at Optis, I had the opportunity to work in a wide variety of sectors (financial, automotive, government, utilities, etc).

  • Followed up on several internships.

  • Tried to help colleagues with issues both technical and non-technical.

  • Organized 2 go-karting events for Optis and several other subsidiaries of the parent company.

• Senior Consultant, 

  Jan, 2020 - Sep, 20211 year 7 months

  • Took part of migrating applications on-prem to cloud (hosted on an AWS EKS Cluster on ec2 instances)

  • Improved cross-team collaboration

  • Coaching junior developers

  • Make improvements on shared libraries

  • Created library used by spring boot 1.5 applications to perform actions on Hashicorp Vault

• Senior Full stack Consultant, 

  Nov, 2018 - Dec, 20191 year 2 months

  • Performed technical analysis on the new functionalities

  • Full stack development using Spring Boot, Angular 6, NgRx, RxJs and PostgreSQL with the PostGIS extension.

• Senior Consultant, 

  Sep, 2017 - Sep, 20181 year

  • Worked in a Microservice architecture running on GCP using Docker containers on Kubernetes

  • Used Domain-Driven Design

  • All internal events were sent through a central Apache Kafka

  • The front-end was written in Angular, communicating with the microservices using the API Gateway pattern

  • All microservices were created using Spring Boot and stored their data on a MongoDB NoSQL database

  • Volunteered to set up a central code analysis platform using SonarQube to ensure quality for both the front-end and the back-end for all squads in the organization

• Senior Consultant, 

  Sep, 2014 - Sep, 20173 years

  • Created the first application in Belgium to communicate with a central application containing all the anonymized traveler information. This required extensive communication with developers from another organization

  • Migrated 5 applications from IBM WebSphere version 6 to version 8.5. This included both the technical parts and the installation documentation for the infrastructure team. After migration was done, I supported the applications and added new features. Later, I helped with onboarding 2 new developers

  • Improved the performance of certain parts of the application by a factor of 2.

  • Our team created a greenfield version of the previously migrated application using a Java EE back-end and a React front-end

  • All microservices were created using Spring Boot and stored their data on a MongoDB NoSQL database

  • Spearheaded the installation and configuration of a CI/CD and SonarQube setup for different teams within the organization

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