Gert Verbruggen
Solution Engineer at CGVS/CGRA Official
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolGert Verbruggen is a solution engineer and architect with 8 years of professional experience designing systems that compute and transfer high volumes of data, currently working at CGVS/CGRA in Ghent. He builds APIs and microservices in C#, Java and Node.js and has led multidisciplinary teams in agile environments to turn prototypes into scalable, production-grade platforms. His background spans large-scale streaming and message processing (Kafka, Storm, Spark), NoSQL datastores and cloud deployments, and he has driven architecture and technical leadership roles across logistics, media R&D and government projects. Notably, he blends hands-on coding with team leadership—having moved core systems to more scalable architectures while managing client integrations and BI concerns. With an M.S. in Computer Science (distinction) and a permaculture design certificate, he brings both analytical rigor and systems-thinking to resilient software design.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High school diploma, Science and Mathematics, High school diploma, Science and Mathematics at IKSO DenderleeuwM.S., Computer Science (graduated with distinction), M.S., Computer Science (graduated with distinction) at Ghent UniversityPermaculture Design Certificate (PDC), Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) at Permaculture Research Institute, Jordan
French, English, Dutch
Github Skills (6)
in-place9
logic7
api7
scala5
visualize5
documentation2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
NxtPort/nxtport.github.io
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
Lets you visualize and interact with the NxtPort API's without having any of the implementation logic in place.
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 10 months
placeapivisualizeapi-sinteract
NxtPort/API
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Documentation of the public API's
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 months
apiapi-spublic-api
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