Maarten Casteels
People Manager 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
eloquent10
binaries10
java10
homebrew10
administration10
jekyll10
spring-boot10
command-line-tool10
macos10
tech-blog10
cli10
angular10
laravel-package9
laravel9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
DenMette/homebrew-cask
Nov 2016 - Mar 2019
A CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
cliworkflowdistributed-applicationsadministrationbinaries
denmette/denmette.github.io
Jul 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:20 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 7 months
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