Bert Verstraete
Senior Software Engineer at Cognite
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolBert Verstraete is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years' experience building resilient, scalable back-end systems and orchestration tooling from Oslo. With an MSc in Information Engineering Technology, he combines strong systems programming (Go, C++, Java) and cloud-native expertise (Kubernetes, Kafka, Postgres) to deliver production-grade workflows and monitoring for industrial data platforms. At Cognite he helped build a Netflix Conductor-based orchestration layer and contributed fixes and concurrency improvements to the popular Conductor open-source project, demonstrating an eye for race conditions and database optimization. His side projects range from a serverless stream-processing framework to a custom C-like compiler and GAN-driven art generation, showing both deep engineering rigor and creative experimentation. Comfortable across data, ML, and infra, he focuses on clean code, robust architectures and operating software at scale while continuously learning Kotlin and Apache Flink.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Information Engineering Technology, Master of Science - MS Information Engineering Technology at Ghent UniversityBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Applied Informatics - Systems & Software Engineer, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Applied Informatics - Systems & Software Engineer at HOWEST Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
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Github Skills (10)
javas10
orchestration10
workflow-automation10
postgresql10
java10
concurrency10
spring-boot9
distributed-systems9
database-design8
testing7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
conductor-oss/conductor
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Conductor is an event driven orchestration platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 8 PRs, 17 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Bert primarily focused on improving the Conductor orchestration platform's back-end functionality. Their contributions included addressing race conditions in the `AsyncSystemTaskExecutor` and `WorkflowRepairService`, implementing a Postgres lock DAO for enhanced concurrency, and refactoring existing PostgreSQL queries for improved efficiency. Additionally, the user worked on join task fixes, ensuring proper handling of task failures and state transitions. The changes included fixing tests and optimizing database interactions.
distributed-systemsdurable-executiongrpcjavajavascript
VerstraeteBert/plumber
Apr 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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