IT Consultant to strengthen your team
Together with you and your team, I can put my shoulders to the wheel to plan and execute your challenging assignments. My passion for IT and eagerness to learn have been my driving forces for building up 9 years of experience in various development and management positions. I'm a problem solver and critical thinker by nature, and thrive when seeing a product grow or people develop in their position.
How can I be of service to you?
Expertise
Backend Development
DevOps Engineering
Microservices & Kubernetes
Continuous Integration & Deployment
Containerization
Performance & Work Process Improvement
Education
Leadership Training
@ Atlas Grow How | 2021 - 2021
IT Courses
@ Ghent University | 2013 - 2014
Bachelor Multimedia & Communication Technologies
@ Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen | 2010 - 2013
Skills
Analysis, Planning & Collaboration
Node.js & Typescript
Kubernetes & Docker
Serverless & Microservices
Google Cloud Platform & Firebase
Scripting, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI & Drone CI
SQL & NoSQL
Logstash & Elasticsearch
New Relic & Google Cloud Trace
PHP
Python
Highlighted Experience
Freelance Software Engineer
@ In The Pocket | Aug 2023 - Now
Engineering Manager
@ Tinder / Match Group (ACQ) | Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Director of Engineering
@ Massive Media / Match Group | Jan 2021 - May 2022
Technical Lead
@ Massive Media / Match Group | Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
Mobile App Engineer
@ Massive Media / Match Group | Jan 2017 - Jan 2020
Web Engineer
@ Massive Media / Match Group | Mar 2015 - Dec 2016
Student Work as Programmer
@ Corilus | Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
Internship as Programmer
@ Microsoft Innovation Center Vlaanderen | Feb 2013 - Jun 2013
Expertise
Backend Development
DevOps Engineering
Microservices & Kubernetes
Continuous Integration & Deployment
Containerization
Performance & Work Process Improvement
Highlighted Experience
Freelance Software Engineer
@ In The Pocket | Aug 2023 - Now
Engineering Manager
@ Tinder / Match Group (ACQ) | Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Director of Engineering
@ Massive Media / Match Group | Jan 2021 - May 2022
Technical Lead
@ Massive Media / Match Group | Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
Mobile App Engineer
@ Massive Media / Match Group | Jan 2017 - Jan 2020
Web Engineer
@ Massive Media / Match Group | Mar 2015 - Dec 2016
Student Work as Programmer
@ Corilus | Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
Internship as Programmer
@ Microsoft Innovation Center Vlaanderen | Feb 2013 - Jun 2013
Education
Leadership Training
@ Atlas Grow How | 2021 - 2021
IT Courses
@ Ghent University | 2013 - 2014
Bachelor Multimedia & Communication Technologies
@ Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen | 2010 - 2013
Skills
Analysis, Planning & Collaboration
Node.js & Typescript
Kubernetes & Docker
Serverless & Microservices
Google Cloud Platform & Firebase
Scripting, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI & Drone CI
SQL & NoSQL
Logstash & Elasticsearch
New Relic & Google Cloud Trace
PHP
Python
Interests
Woodworking
Embedded Systems
Snowboard, Ski & Water Sports
Full Experience
Freelance Software Engineer
@ In The Pocket | Aug 2023 - Now
Applying my skill set to a project with over a million IoT-devices as freelance Software Engineer. Managing backend-service-codebases as well as AWS cloud-infrastructure through Terraform. Skills: AWS, Terraform, Node.js, Typescript, Bash, Docker, CI/CD, Redis, MongoDB, NoSQL, New Relic, AWS, Lambda, S3, EC2
IT Consultant
@ Onsar | May 2023 - Now
Freelance IT Consultant at own consulting company. Applying knowledge and experience to take your products and services to new heights. Together with you and your team, I can put my shoulders to the wheel to plan and execute your challenging assignments.
Planned Career Break
Nov 2022 - Apr 2023
Planned career break before starting as IT consultant. Continued to work on personal projects. Skills: GCP Load Balancing, GCP, Kubernetes Engine, CloudFlare DNS, CloudFlare R2, UFW, Dnsmasq, IPsec, Docker, MQTT
Engineering Manager
@ Tinder / Match Group (ACQ) | Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Leading the Tools team to analyze and draw up a technical plan to expand the existing file upload infrastructure of Tinder. A unique challenge for a complex, extremely high-traffic product. Skills: Java, Node.js, AWS, DynamoDB, S3, Kubernetes
Director of Engineering
@ Massive Media / Match Group | Jan 2021 - May 2022
People management, proposals, and planning became an integral part of my responsibilities next to those as technical lead. Making a bigger impact and helping people develop in their position is what motivated me to grow into a management position. Skills: PHP, Bash, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Redis, Memcached, SQL, NoSQL, Logstash, Elasticsearch, New Relic, AWS, Lambda, S3
Technical Lead
@ Massive Media / Match Group | Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
Leading the engineering decisions for the new Tools team. Responsible for managing and developing in-house services, like payments, scam-detection, translations, and logging, as well as supporting the migration to Kubernetes through containerization. Skills: PHP, Bash, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Redis, Memcached, SQL, NoSQL, Logstash, Elasticsearch, New Relic, AWS, Lambda, S3
Mobile App Engineer
@ Massive Media / Match Group | Jan 2017 - Jan 2020
With a global shift to mobile, I broadened my knowledge as a mobile app developer. We migrated the Twoo app to React Native and developed Ablo, a new product, that won “App of the Year” by Google in 2019. Next to mobile development I was responsible for CI/CD, scripting, and improving development processes. Skills: React Native, Node.js, Typescript, Java, GraphQL, Docker, CI/CD, Bash
Web Engineer
@ Massive Media / Match Group | Mar 2015 - Dec 2016
Developing new features for Twoo, a high-traffic website used by 200 million accounts worldwide. Planning, growing, iterating and optimizing were essential to get to know our users better and ensure a stable product. Skills: PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS, SQL, NoSQL, Redis, Memcached, Couchbase, Websockets, New Relic, Jenkins
Student Work as Programmer
@ Corilus | Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
Corilus is a market leader in eHealth solutions. I was responsible for refactoring code in software that manages patient files and administration for doctors. Skills: .NET, Visual Studio
Internship as Programmer
@ Microsoft Innovation Center Vlaanderen | Feb 2013 - Jun 2013
We developed Ocoda, a Windows Store application that allowed people without any programming knowledge to create Windows Store applications using simple drag and drop gestures for distribution and commercialization. Skills: .NET, WPF, Visual Studio