Giselle Van Dongen
Developer Advocate
Greater Bergamo Metropolitan Area Italy
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Top SchoolGiselle Van Dongen is a Developer Advocate with nine years' experience specializing in distributed stream processing, IoT and big data analytics. She currently helps developers build resilient async/await applications at Restate, bringing deep hands-on knowledge from leading data science teams and architecting cloud-native pipelines using Spark, Flink, Kafka and Kubernetes. Earlier roles include PhD research benchmarking streaming frameworks and establishing Klarrio’s APAC presence, reflecting a rare mix of academic rigor and customer-facing delivery. Based in the Bergamo area, she pairs technical leadership and hiring experience with practical implementation skills—often translating complex distributed systems into usable products and clear developer guidance.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Business Engineering, Data Analytics (2MA), High distinction, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Business Engineering, Data Analytics (2MA), High distinction at Universiteit GentMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Business Engineering, Data Analytics (1MA), High distinction, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Business Engineering, Data Analytics (1MA), High distinction at Leibniz Universität HannoverLatin-Mathematics, Latin-Mathematics at Sint-Pietersinstituut Turnhout
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
485reputation
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1answer
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Github Skills (32)
durable-functions10
event-driven10
async-await10
serverless10
cli10
kotlin-coroutines9
benchmark9
kafka-streams9
distributed-computing9
spark-streaming9
kotlin9
distributed-systems9
workflow-engine9
stream9
microservices9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
restatedev/examples
Oct 2023 - Apr 2025
Restate examples
Contributions:40 reviews, 131 PRs, 468 pushes in 1 year 6 months
restatedev/node-template-generator
Dec 2023 - Jan 2025
Template generator for Restate TypeScript/NodeJS SDK: `npx @restatedev/create-app`
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 4 PRs in 1 year 1 month
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