Summary
Andy Lester is a senior full-stack software engineer based in Brussels with over 14 years of professional experience and a 20+ year coding background focused on Java, Spring, Angular, React and REST services. He currently develops tax applications for the Belgian federal government and has a track record delivering mission-critical web systems for European institutions, telecoms and finance. Comfortable leading teams and projects under tight deadlines, he combines pragmatic architecture with hands-on implementation and strong communication skills. He also maintains an open-source HTML5 media centre he conceived and built in Java, showing entrepreneurial drive and a taste for cross-platform browser-based media delivery. Known for clean, maintainable code and proactive collaboration, he thrives on complex integration challenges and modern best practices.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Software Engineering, MSc, Software Engineering at Edinburgh Napier University
French