Maarten Casteels
Co Host at Sopra Steria
Sint-Niklaas, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolMaarten Casteels is a hands-on Java architect and people-focused engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and modernizing enterprise applications from Belgium. He blends practical architecture and coding—ensuring maintainable, scalable systems—with servant leadership, currently empowering a 25-person team to own their career growth. Maarten has progressed from backend development and integration work (including payments, e-signing and POS systems) to technical leadership roles where he pairs client-facing guidance with internal practice development. He’s known for translating legacy knowledge into modern Java practices, coaching Cobol-trained colleagues into Java ecosystems. Based in Sint-Niklaas, he combines a pragmatic developer mindset with a strong commitment to talent development and long-term architecture.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Informatica, Bachelor Informatica at AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (24)
spring10
java10
homebrew10
jekyll10
spring-boot10
tech-blog10
angular10
eloquent9
laravel9
media-library9
media9
php8
wordpress-plugin8
laravel-package8
hugo7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
denmette/denmette.github.io
Jul 2022 - Jan 2026
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 51 pushes in 3 years 6 months
denmette/denmette
Jul 2020 - Jan 2026
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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