Lieven Merckx
Senior Technical Architect at ING
Aalst, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolLieven Merckx is a Senior Technical Architect with 11+ years focused on infrastructure and systems architecture, and decades of hands-on experience in networking, operating systems, databases, hardware and J2EE. At ING he led design of the Global Financial Messaging Engine and pioneered logging, tracing and event-driven patterns (ELK, Graphite/Grafana, Kafka) for highly distributed systems. He blends technical leadership with vendor steering and account management for infrastructure services, while maintaining deep operational sensibilities around performance, resilience and lifecycle management. A trained electronics engineer who tinkers with robotics and home automation, he brings a maker’s curiosity to production-grade software and control systems. Fluent in Dutch, English and French, he’s known for translating complex cross-border requirements into practical, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
ASO, wiskunde-wetenschap, ASO, wiskunde-wetenschap at Sint-Jozefscollege Aalstengineer, electronics, engineer, electronics at Ghent University
Dutch, French
Github Skills (200)
bluetooth10
arduino-library10
esp3210
eclipse10
espressif10
platformio10
gateway10
paho10
zenoh10
esp826610
ethernet10
usb-serial10
serial-port10
esp-idf10
arduino10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
vortex314/mqtt2serial
Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:143 commits, 137 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
vortex314/ea_actor
May 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:44 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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