Kilian Lievens is a senior backend and infrastructure engineer with a decade of experience building resilient production systems across startups and scale-ups. He has led engineering teams and re-architected core services for speed, security, and shorter development cycles, most recently guiding Markmi.ai through a production-grade infrastructure migration and investment-round tech due diligence. Comfortable across the full stack, Kilian has designed Kubernetes-based platforms, GraphQL/Node microservices, and authentication systems (OpenID Connect) while also mentoring junior engineers and shaping engineering culture. Based in Ghent, he combines hands-on implementation with strategic roadmap setting, and has a practical business-engineering perspective from dual studies in IT and Business Engineering. An avid problem-solver, he tends to focus on measurable reliability and observability improvements that pay off during fast product iterations.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at HOGENT
Business Engineering, Business Engineering at Ghent University
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