Description

Senior Software Engineer and Architect with 10+ years of experience designing, modernising, and scaling enterprise systems across telecom, energy, SaaS, real estate, and healthcare domains. Proven track record in legacy modernisation, cloud-native architecture, performance optimisation, and domain-driven design.

Recognised for translating complex business problems into robust, maintainable architectures,

mentoring engineers, and driving technical decisions across cross-functional teams. Strong focus on clean architecture, system reliability, and long-term scalability.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
Dutch
Native or bilingual
Turkish
Native or bilingual
French
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paal (up to 50km), Antwerpen (up to 15km), Leuven (up to 20km), Hasselt (up to 30km), Brussel (up to 15km)

Elia
Senior SWE / Architect
ENERGY AND UTILITIES
May 2025 - Today (1 year and 1 month)
Brussels, Belgium
• Reengineered an existing Python system into .NET 8, reducing processing time from 2–3 days to under 30 minutes.
• Designed data streaming and caching strategies using intermediate tables to optimize performance.
• Collaborated with architects and domain experts to establish a modern and maintainable architecture.
• Made use microservices, gRPC and orchestrator for communication in between.
• Delivered 100% code coverage across domain and business layers.
• Further details hidden due to NDA.
.NET Grpc MongoDB Atlassian JIRA Blazor
Telenet - Belgium
Application Specialist (Senior SWE)
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
January 2024 - May 2025 (1 year and 4 months)
Mechelen, Belgium
- Lead: Spearheading interfacing efforts for the Marlin application, optimizing inventory processes for coax and fiber components.
- Collaborate: Actively collaborating within the Product Journey Tribe, engaging with GIS experts, testers, and external developers.
- Own Delivery: Ensuring seamless software delivery with end-to-end responsibility for multiple APIs.
- Expertise: Demonstrating expertise in API .NET development, security, high-available setups, and complex data models.
- Impactful Contribution: Contributing significantly to Fiber to the Home (FTTH) and coax sales processes.
- Ownership: Organize meetings, communicate the next steps to relevant colleagues for progressing further.
- Flexibility: Work with multiple teams, projects and (programming) languages. (C#/Java/English/Dutch)

Part of teams:
- NDT: Network Design Tooling
- NFA: Network Field Assurance

Projects worked/working on:
- Smartwork Concept Api
- MRO Validation Service
- Transforming Services from GeoTEV to Marlin
- Omgevingsloket
- Test automation on several projects
- Commercial WHS SP: Appointment Mgmt

Functional & technical analysis (documentation) on:
- Sync Gipod Eagle Infra
- Omgevingsloket
.NET ASP.NET Core Blazor Oracle Test Automation
Teamleader
Senior Full-stack developer
SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
August 2022 - January 2024 (1 year and 5 months)
Ghent, Belgium
Development of SaaS Teamleader Orbit (previously Yadera).

https://www.teamleader.eu/orbit/

- Use of multiple tech: .NET (C#), ExtJS, JS, MSSQL and many more.
- Maintain and develop further the codebase
- Analyze user feedbacks/tickets to work towards solutions
- Share knowledge by creating documentation for use by other/future developers (Atlassian Confluence)
- Pair programming
- Peer/code reviewing
- Help out colleagues whenever needed
.NET Ext.js Microsoft Azure SQL Atlassian Confluence Atlassian JIRA