Johan Brichau
VAST Consultant And Senior Software Engineer at Instantiations
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolJohan Brichau is a senior software engineer and VAST consultant based in Brussels with over 15 years of industry experience and a research background culminating in a PhD from Vrije Universiteit Brussel. As co-founder and software architect at Inceptive.be and long-time CTO of Yesplan, he blends hands-on product development with strategic technical leadership across startups and scale-ups. His career bridges academia and industry—five years of postdoctoral and research roles informed a methodical, data-driven approach to system design and architecture. Now at Instantiations, he continues to deliver pragmatic engineering solutions while advising on tooling and best practices for complex software products. Colleagues note his ability to translate deep technical concepts into actionable roadmaps, reflecting both entrepreneurial instinct and scholarly rigor.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Sint-JorisinstituutPhD, PhD at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
English, French, Dutch
Stackoverflow
2,471reputation
32kreached
53answers
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Github Skills (136)
continuation10
testing10
pharo10
web-testing10
gemstone10
moose10
object-oriented-programming10
smalltalk10
selenium-webdriver10
selenium-grid10
browserstack10
gitlab-ci10
appveyor10
squeak10
selenium10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jbrichau/weblogstat
Jan 2013 - Feb 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 1 push in 4 years 1 month
SeasideSt/Seaside-old
Sep 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 7 pushes, 7 comments in 8 months
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