Summary
Godfried Meesters is an Application Cloud Architect with 10+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise Java and cloud solutions, currently shaping cloud strategy at Sword Group from Brussels. He combines deep J2EE and full‑stack Java expertise (Angular/Spring) with practical DevOps skills—having operated as an independent DevOps specialist and delivered cloud platforms for UNDP in challenging environments. His background spans long-term public sector projects building tax applications and modern EU institution systems, and he is fluent with AWS, Linux, OpenSSL, PHP and WordPress when projects require polyglot solutions. Godfried pairs formal training (BSc Computing, MSc in Software Engineering studies) with a pragmatic engineering mindset that favors maintainable, auditable systems. Notably, he has experience standing up cloud-based academic services in nascent data centers, showing an ability to deliver infrastructure under resource and connectivity constraints.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen
Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering at Open Universiteit
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computing, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computing at Letterkenny Institute of Technology
English, French, German, Amharic, Dutch