Summary
Ben Cochez is a Senior Developer based in Antwerp with two decades of experience delivering complex IT projects and 13 years in hands-on software roles, specializing in microservice architectures, integrations and pragmatic cloud migrations. He excels at turning legacy stacks into maintainable, cloud-native systems using Java/Spring backends and Angular frontends while applying Continuous Delivery and agile practices. As a consultant and owner of his own practice, he combines broad technical depth with a structured, long-term approach to solutions and a knack for making hard problems simple. Comfortable as both an implementer and integrator, he has led CMS and ECM projects, supported enterprise toolchains, and driven administrative tooling for public-sector users. Notably, he augmented his practical experience with summa cum laude postgraduate studies in Big Data & Analytics, bringing data-aware perspectives to systems design.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree, Postgraduate Studies in Big Data & Analytics in Business and Management, Summa cum laude with congratulations of the board of examinors, Postgraduate Degree, Postgraduate Studies in Big Data & Analytics in Business and Management, Summa cum laude with congratulations of the board of examinors at KU Leuven
Master of Industrial Sciences, Electronics (ICT), Master of Industrial Sciences, Electronics (ICT) at Groep T - Internationale Hogeschool Leuven
English, Dutch, French