Summary
Karel Eeckelaert is a Senior Back End Developer based in Antwerp with 11 years of experience building robust server-side systems, currently driving backend work at Verhaert Digital Innovation since 2015. He brings deep PHP/Laravel and C#/.NET Core expertise alongside modern stacks like Go, Node.js, Ember and Vue.js, and designs APIs using JSON:API and GraphQL. Karel blends cloud and infrastructure skills—GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform—with multi-cloud experience on AWS and Azure (AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate). His background in telecoms and VoIP from Siemens and Unify gives him a pragmatic systems mindset and strong ops troubleshooting skills. Comfortable across development and deployment, he pairs hands-on coding with infrastructure automation to deliver reliable services. Colleagues value his breadth from legacy telecom platforms to cloud-native architectures and his penchant for turning complex integration challenges into maintainable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
IT, IT at Hogeschool Antwerpen
Secundair ASO, Latijn Moderne Talen, Secundair ASO, Latijn Moderne Talen at Sint Jan Berchmanscollege
English, Dutch, French, German