Summary
Claude Michiels is a seasoned microservice platform designer and developer with 14 years of experience building Java and Go systems for large enterprises, currently freelancing at BNP Paribas Fortis. He architects cloud-native microservice platforms and reference implementations while integrating robust security and legacy systems, and he routinely provides guidelines, training and hands-on support to development teams. An agile and DevOps advocate, Claude combines TDD/BDD practices with CI/CD, containerization and infrastructure automation to improve efficiency, simplicity and software quality. He has led teams up to ~28 engineers as a chief architect, shepherding standards, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement across product lifecycles. Based in Brussels, he blends deep backend engineering with a passion for coaching and pragmatic problem solving, often acting as an early adopter and evaluator of new tooling to accelerate team delivery.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur Industriel (Master), Ingénieur Industriel (Master) at Haute Ecole 'Léonard de Vinci', Bruxelles
Ingénieur Industriel (Bachelier), Ingénieur Industriel (Bachelier) at Haute Ecole de la Communauté française 'Paul-Henri Spaak', Bruxelles
CESS, CESS at EMILE JACQMAIN
French, English, Dutch