Bert Goethals
CTO at Trusted Family
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolBert Goethals is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Ghent, Belgium, with 18 years of experience designing and shipping maintainable, market-aligned products. He blends hands-on system architecture and backend development—evident from contributions like refactoring the delayed_paperclip integration for background processing—with strategic product stewardship at Trusted Family. His background includes building transactional frameworks and hardware-agnostic T&A solutions, showing a knack for turning complex integration challenges into reliable, reusable platforms. Comfortable moving between prototyping, analysis and production coding, he’s as pragmatic about usability as he is about long-term maintainability. An unusual combination of systems architecture training and philosophical study gives him a thoughtful, user-centered approach to technical decision-making.
18 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
philosophy (Attended), Moraal Filosofie, philosophy (Attended), Moraal Filosofie at Universiteit GentKA VijverhofSystems Architect, Analysis, Design, Development, Systems Architect, Analysis, Design, Development at Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen - Vlaamse Autonome Hogeschool
English, Dutch, French
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Github Skills (16)
ruby10
delayed-job10
paperclip10
resque10
rails9
activerecord9
ruby-rails9
rspec8
testing8
test-unit8
graph6
ruby-on-rails6
assertion6
cycle6
family-tree6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jstorimer/delayed_paperclip
Jul 2011 - Nov 2011
Process your Paperclip attachments in the background with delayed_job or Resque.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Bert primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the `delayed_paperclip` library, which integrates Paperclip with background processing systems like Delayed Job and Resque. They offloaded core logic into the attachment itself, optimized the enqueueing process, and addressed compatibility issues with newer versions of Paperclip and Delayed Job. Key contributions involved improving the integration with Rails applications and providing more flexibility through configuration options.
paperclipresque
younited/detect-branch-changes-action
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
Action to detect changes in a branch
Contributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 7 commits in 1 year
detectdetect-changeschanges
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