Kevin Van De Velde
Development Team Manager at @mire
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
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Top SchoolKevin Van De Velde is a seasoned development leader based in Brussels with 14 years of software engineering experience, currently managing the development team at mire while continuing hands-on engineering there since 2007. He combines team leadership with deep backend expertise, evidenced by his long-term committer role on the widely used DSpace open-source digital asset management project. His contributions to DSpace include improving Spring configuration handling, XML workflow data migration for collection roles, and fixing metadata export edge cases—work that underpins institutional repositories worldwide. Kevin’s background in informatics from Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven grounds his pragmatic, systems-focused approach to delivering reliable, maintainable software. He is comfortable moving between code and coordination, mentoring engineers while still shipping critical backend fixes. Colleagues would describe him as a steady technical steward who quietly improves infrastructure that others depend on.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Informatics, Bachelor, Informatics at Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven
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Github Skills (7)
javas10
workflow-management10
java10
spring-boot10
database-migration9
database-migrations9
xml8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DSpace/DSpace
Aug 2011 - Dec 2022
(Official) The DSpace digital asset management system that powers your Institutional Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 reviews, 395 commits, 167 PRs in 11 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's contributions focus on improving the underlying framework and functionality of the DSpace digital asset management system. The user implemented enhancements to the handling and loading of Spring configuration files, and updated the code related to processing and migrating data for the XML workflow, specifically for collection roles. They also addressed a bug related to metadata export by adding the filename extension.
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KevinVdV/DSpace
Jan 2015 - Jan 2020
(Official) The DSpace digital asset management system that powers your Institutional Repository
Contributions:4 PRs, 133 pushes, 93 branches in 5 years 1 month
management-systemdigital-assetdigital-asset-managementpowersinstitutional
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