Summary
Kevin Van Houtte is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building production-ready, cloud-native backend systems using Java, Spring Boot, and resilient microservice patterns. He has led cloud-native efforts at major banks and startups, delivering reliable APIs, event-driven integrations, and CI/CD pipelines across OpenShift, EKS, and AWS. Kevin combines deep expertise in observability, messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS), and IaC (Terraform, Helm, Kustomize) with an API-first mindset and strong SRE practices. He also founded BitElite Solutions and continues to balance consultancy and product work, showing entrepreneurial initiative alongside enterprise delivery. Based in Leuven, Belgium, he’s particularly focused on pragmatic resiliency for distributed systems and enjoys turning complex legacy integrations into robust, observable services.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Multimedia Techniques, High School, Multimedia Techniques at Technisch Heilighart Instituut Tessenderlo
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven
English, Dutch, French