Jeroen Minnaert
Company Owner at Wintercircus Ghent
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolJeroen Minnaert is a seasoned software architect and founder with 11 years of experience building and scaling data-driven SaaS platforms from startup inception to global operations. As Chief Software Architect and later VP of Software Architecture at Showpad, he led the creation of a ~20-person data organization, shaped strategy for a ~200-person product & engineering org, and established core services like analytics, search, CI/CD and API-first backends. Now running his own company and teaching engineering leadership at Wintercircus, he blends hands-on backend engineering with executive leadership and a strong focus on data maturity and operational excellence. An active contributor to open-source (notably backend work on the mysql-to-json Kafka producer Maxwell), he brings practical experience optimizing schema capture, logging and production readiness. Based in Ghent with an MSc in Computer Science from Ghent University, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with deep technical craftsmanship and a knack for turning complex systems into reliable, scalable products.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Middle School, Middle School at European School VareseMSc, Engineering; Computer Science, MSc, Engineering; Computer Science at Ghent UniversityDiploma, the International Baccalaureate Organisation, Diploma, the International Baccalaureate Organisation at International School of Monaco
English, Dutch, French, Italian
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Github Skills (21)
back-end-development10
mysql10
kafka10
schema-design10
java10
schema-org10
javas10
schema10
logging9
database-design8
jdbc8
stream6
resultset6
koa6
http-verbs6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/maxwell
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Maxwell's daemon, a mysql-to-json kafka producer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 3 PRs, 13 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Jeroen primarily contributed to the backend logic and schema management of the `maxwell` repository, a MySQL to JSON Kafka producer. They implemented logging enhancements, optimized schema capture by introducing prepared statements, and improved schema restoration. Furthermore, the user added support for root users and made several code improvements in the MaxwellMysqlConfig.java and UpdateRowsEvent.java files.
to-jsonavrosinkmysqldaemon
showpad/showpad-samlbundle
Sep 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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