Frederik De Smedt
Backend Engineer at itsme®
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolFrederik De Smedt is a backend engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building systems at itsme® after senior Rust and tech lead roles at Luzmo and dataroots. He combines a strong academic background in Applied Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from KU Leuven with hands-on experience delivering data and backend solutions. Known for valuing clean, efficient code over quick fixes, he consistently pushes for maintainable designs and pragmatic engineering trade-offs. His career spans data engineering, technical leadership, and low-level systems work—including commercial Rust development—showing versatility across the stack. Based in Leuven, Belgium, Frederik brings a steady mix of academic rigor and production-focused craftsmanship to complex backend challenges. Colleagues describe him as a developer who measures progress by continuous improvement rather than just shipped features.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at KU LeuvenBachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Applied Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Applied Computer Science at HOGENT
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (49)
python10
collections10
cron9
aws-ecs9
jupyterlab-extension9
hydrogen8
jupyterlab8
nteract8
jupyterhub7
snowflake7
jupyter7
golang7
visualization7
terraform7
scheduler7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IWMC/geofencing-beacons
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:82 commits, 72 pushes, 37 branches in 2 months
frederikdesmedt/Projecten-2
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:173 commits, 2 PRs, 165 pushes in 1 year 2 months
cssjavascript
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