About
Maarten is a software engineer/solutions architect who graduated in 2011. He's very eager to learn and needs complex technical and/or functional environments to feel well, he needs to be challenged. In this regard, Maarten became a freelance software developer in secondary occupation in 2014: Now he could use and research al the newer, state-of-the-art technologies that the more mature companies still thought were too new. Maarten works best in an environment that is quite open, where there is room for a joke and some chit-chat as he's rather outgoing in personality.
Available for secondary occupation projects: Feel free to contact me for software development projects (from scratch or as a consultant), to evaluate and propose process improvements, or to guide non-IT minded organizations with IT projects. I help bridge the gap between technical solutions and business requirements, ensuring successful project outcomes.
Solutions architect, software developer/architect, technical lead, SCRUM master.
- Birthday: 17 April 1989
- Website:
maarten-vandeperre.be (Personal)
viae.solutions (Secondary occupation) - Phone: +32(0)479/58.40.45
- City: Terneuzen, NL
- Nationality: Belgian
- Language: Dutch (mother tongue), English
Tech stack
I have no issues learning/working with other technologies than the ones listed over here, but these are my favorites. (E.g., experience with Spring & some experience with C#.NET, data science platforms and Python as well, but these are not part of the tech stack I "master" or would choose myself.)
Skills
This section contains a quick summary of my skill set. If you want to read more about my experience with it, continue to section Skill experience
Resume
Summary
Maarten Vandeperre
Innovative and deadline-driven solutions architect/software architect/full stack developer/SCRUM master with focus on code & platform quality. 10+ years of experience in analysing, designing and setting up software solutions from initial concept to final, polished deliverable.
Education
Red Hat Certified Specialist in Service Mesh for Resilient Microservices
October 2023 - October 2026
Credential ID: 230-018-251
Red Hat Certified Specialist in Event-Driven Application Development - Kafka
April 2023 - April 2026
MSC INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
January 2021 - Ongoing (should be December 2024)
Maarten enrolled in this master to improve on his non-technical skills. This course covers "DIGITAL MARKETING ANALYTICS AND STRATEGY", "INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION", "INNOVATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING", "PROJECT MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP AND SKILLS: PLANNING AND CONTROL".
BIG DATA HANDS-ON
September 2021 - December 2021
Hands-on course covering kappa architectures, NLP, Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, ....
DATA VISUALIZATION:
COMMUNICATING DATA AND COMPLEX IDEAS VISUALLY
July 2021 - July 2021
This program combines the science of data visualization with the art of graphic design to help you communicate complex information more accurately and effectively.
CSAIL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
IMPLICATIONS FOR BUSINESS STRATEGY PROGRAM
April 2021 - May 2021
During this 6 weeks course Maarten got a high level overview of the current state of AI and implemented a strategic roadmap that could incorporate AI within an existing software company.
CERTIFIED SCRUMMASTER
October 2018, Renewed in September 2020
A two day SCRUM master course.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
September 2007 - September 2011
As a bachelor paper, Maarten created (in group) a karaoke program accompanied with a YouTube like website to upload your videos to. During this education he oriented towards algorithms and Java development. As a master paper he developed software that controls a drone to fly autonomous and developed an optimal path algorithm to let the drone search for boxes in a warehouse where the box is on position x with probability Px and on position y with probability Py.
Professional Experience (Main Occupation)
Specialist Solutions Architect (AppDev & AI)
January 2023 - Present
With a background on software development, Maarten started in the beginning of 2023 as specialist solutions architect for Red Hat, with a specialisation on application development, being: the developer usage of OpenShift, the integration/middleware layer (i.e., 3Scale API Gateways, Kafka, Keycloak, Camel, ServiceMesh, Knative/serverless, ...) and the developer tooling (i.e., dev spaces, ArgoCD, Tekton pipelines, ...).
SOFTWARE ENGINEER - TEAMLEAD
August 2017 - End of 2022
Axians, Ghent, BE
Maarten started as software engineer at Axians where he developed a CRM focused on welding for Actemium. This was a SpringBoot/VueJS application hosted on OpenShift. Next to the CRM, Maarten developed a home automation tool in OpenHAB for Cegelek. Later on Maarten became part of the COP architectuur at Axians. Maarten became software teamlead from January 2021 onward.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER - SCRUM master (As Axians consultant)
January 2018 - Present
BASF crop science, Ghent, BE
Maarten started as SCRUM master and software engineer (Java) at the Phoenix team as a consultant from Axians. This team is responsible for creating applications for breeders, labs and data scientist to ameliorate performance of plants and to guide genetic modification of plants. This experience is labelled under "BASF": the department started as being part of Bayer, but BASF took it over in 2019 following the Bayer - Monsanto merger.
Technical lead
February 2016 - August 2017
Foreach, Antwerp, BE
Maarten was technical lead for projects regarding the InvestImmo project (management tool for your real estate portfolio), Knooppunt (license management tool for educational books), and De tijd (newspaper in Belgium). He left quite fast as he didn't agree with management's view on code quality and customer treatment.
Software developer
September 2011 - February 2016
AGFA HealthCare , Ghent, BE
Maarten was part of a SCRUM team that developed interfaces in between software used in hospitals (software of Agfa with software of external parties).
Professional Experience (Secondary Occupation)
Maarten started his own company (in secondary occupation) in April 2014. He did some projects for the university of Ghent (creating a tailor- made CRM for ordering lab samples), MRL (creating a tailor-made CRM for metal recycling), developing actively at the Eqify platform (Belgian horses CRM), developing applications for Creafor and he developed an Android application for the technical department of city Lokeren.
Next to this all, he became CTO of WilisWilis inc (US) and PointSpot inc (US), both targeting the real estate market in the US. WilisWilis has next to the board (3 members. including Maarten) only one extra developer so far, so the term "CTO" is a fancy name for main developer at the moment.
Master paper
Skill experience
Java (8,9,11,17,21)
From 2011 onward experience in Java projects.
Kotlin
Back-end of projects in Axians, sample projects at Red Hat and all private projects are written in Kotlin.
Team management (SCRUM)
Being SCRUM master at BASF.
Microservices & front-end microservices
Maarten got in touch with microservices at Foreach, Axians and BASF. Next to that he uses microservices in his private projects as well. For the US projects, Maarten started with developing front-end microservices as well.
Clean architecture
Maarten got in touch with clean architecture when he started at Axians. Since then, he uses it for his private projects and got it introduced at BASF.
AWS
All private projects are hosted on AWS. Main components: EC2, ECS, RDS, Route53, integration with wix.com, CI/CD pipelines integrated via gitlab, .... Part of the Cloud Architect Workgroup at Axians.
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is used as read database at BASF.
Redis
Maarten used Redis in a private project and did set up a POC in scope of BASF at Axians.
JBoss
JBoss was used as application server at AGFA and BASF.
SpringBoot - Spring
Spring and SpringBoot are used during all the projects of Maarten's main profession. Later on SpringBoot 2 and Spring 5 are used at Axians and BASF.
Quarkus (on GraalVM)
All the US projects were developed in Micronaut on GraalVM. Next to that Maarten used Quarkus during a hackaton at Axians (i.e. RedHat premium partner). Last but not least, Maarten now uses Quarkus as a default in his own projects and has Quarkus in his portfolio at Red Hat.
MySQL - Oracle - PostgreSQL
Oracle was chosen as write database at AGFA and BASF. MySql was chosen in some private projects and at Foreach. Postgresql was chosen at the internal projects at Axians.
MongoDB
MongoDB was chosen in some private projects. Two certificates were obtained and Maarten started to migrate the first projects at Phoenix (BASF) to MongoDB (from Oracle).
Kubernetes - OpenShift - ECS (AWS)
Kubernetes used for private projects and at BASF. OpenShift was used as hosting platform for internal projects at Axians. ECS (AWS) is used within some private projects, ROSA in others. OpenShift is as well part of Maarten's portfolio at Red Hat.
React
Favourite front-end library: when Maarten can chose, he'll use react (and redux) as main front-end library. Almost all private projects have a react front-end.
Vue
The front-end library for private projects and at Axians.
Angular
Used at AGFA and in a private project (CRM Ugent).
3Scale API Gateway
Maarten has 3Scale in his portfolio at Red Hat and uses it in sample projects and workshops. Next to that, Maarten is certified in this technology as well.
Camel
Maarten has Camel in his portfolio at Red Hat and uses it in sample projects and workshops. Next to that, Maarten is certified in this technology as well.
Kafka - AMQ streams
Maarten has Kafka - AMQ streams in his portfolio at Red Hat and uses it in sample projects and workshops. Next to that, Maarten is certified in this technology as well.
Service Mesh (Istio)
Maarten has Service Mesh in his portfolio at Red Hat and uses it in sample projects and workshops. He is certified as Red Hat Certified Specialist in Service Mesh for Resilient Microservices.
Microsoft Azure
Maarten is Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals and has experience with cloud services and AI implementations on the Azure platform.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Maarten has completed MIT's AI strategy program and Azure AI Fundamentals certification. He focuses on AI implications for business strategy and practical AI implementations.
Quantum Computing
Maarten completed Introduction to Quantum Computing and Quantum Computing Fundamentals courses at MIT, gaining foundational knowledge in quantum computing principles and applications.
Testimonials
I had the pleasure to have Maarten in my team at Agfa HealthCare for a few years. From a team perspective Maarten a great team player who thinks about the team and its targets first. He easily picks up both the more challenging and even less appealing tasks with great dedication and patience. What stands out is his big eye for quality. He understands very well that each deficiency in software today will come back at a tenfold price tomorrow if not tackled properly. Furthermore, he stays on top of the latest technologies and is eager to learn, improve and help others grow. I highly recommend Maarten to anyone that wants to build a solid product that stands the test of time.
Stijn Coolbrandt
Connecting health and social care with Zipster
Social Entrepreneur
Maarten kreeg de ondankbare taak om halfweg een project de fakkel over te nemen als technical lead. Met grote deskundigheid is hij in andermans code gedoken om het project succesvol te laten landen. Geen excuses maar oplossingen. Het motto "werken tot het werkt" kleeft op Maarten. Met de glimlach. Maarten is van het zeldzame type ontwikkelaars die kwaliteit combineren met inzicht, engagement en goesting. And above all, gewoon een toffe gast.
Xavier Carbonez
Co-founder at Investdata
Vlotte communicatie. Proactief. Neemt het werk ter harte; steekt een tandje bij als het moet.
Mieke Van der Heyden
Projectcoördinator bij Van In
I had an opportunity to work with Maarten in one of our group project in Digital Marketing Analytic and Strategy class. It was a very difficult assignment that involved analyzing Google Analytics data from an online store and Maarten was a great asset for the team. He made data analytics look so simple and he was available for each member of the team whenever we needed help on data transformation. I cannot thank him enough for that.
Natacha Nzabampema
Business Transformation Officer at World Food Programme
Contact
Location:
Terneuzen, NL (close to the Belgian border)
Email:
maarten.vandeperre@gmail.com
maarten.vandeperre@viae.solutions
Call:
+32(0)479/58.40.45