Jef Claes
Principal Solution Architect at Nike
Antwerp Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolJef Claes is a Principal Solution Architect with 14 years of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale supply chain and marketplace systems, currently shaping Marketplace and Supply Chain Technology at Nike from Antwerp. He blends deep backend engineering, platform and infrastructure expertise—AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability—with a knack for domain language and pragmatic architecture that keeps complex warehouse and returns ecosystems running. At Nike he progressed from lead platform roles and IoT-enabled warehouse solutions to driving principal-level standards across EMEA, often interfacing directly with senior leadership and global teams. Earlier roles include modernizing financial transaction systems, growing online gaming platforms, and operationalizing incident- and crisis-management software, showing a consistent track record of shipping reliable systems and decommissioning legacy tech. Known as a "professional codeslinger" who also enjoys the accidental joys of plumbing infrastructure, he pairs gritty implementation skills with strategic thinking to move products from prototype to production.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Information Technologies, Bachelor Information Technologies at Thomas More University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (52)
aspnet-web-api9
aws-services9
bus9
domain-driven-design9
docker8
servicestack8
aws8
graph8
kubernetes8
terraform7
dotnet-core7
go7
message-bus7
stream6
mongodb6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JefClaes/consumed
Jan 2014 - Jan 2018
Contributions:100 commits, 1 push in 4 years
JefClaes/data-structures-and-algorithms-in-js
Jul 2011 - Jun 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 1 push in 7 years
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