Mathieu Hinderyckx
Software Engineer at Octave
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolMathieu Hinderyckx is a software engineer and solution architect with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native, high-performance distributed and big data systems. He blends hands-on DevOps and backend expertise—particularly with Python (Django/Flask) and Go—with deep production experience on GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Istio, and observability tooling. Mathieu has driven end-to-end product delivery from architecture and CI/CD to monitoring and scaling across microservice fleets, and has a track record of improving system robustness and performance. An active open-source contributor, he improved security and logging in the widely-used djangosaml2 Django SAML2 service provider, fixing XSS issues and hard-to-find template bugs. Based in Ghent, Belgium, he favors modern open-source tooling and collaborative teams, and brings a background in multimedia research and large-scale infrastructure to pragmatic engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Sciences, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Sciences at Ghent UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science Engineering at UGentLatin - Mathematics 8, Latin - Mathematics 8 at Sint-Lodewijkscollege Brugge
English, Dutch, French
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Github Skills (14)
user-authentication10
authentication10
python10
back-end-development10
django10
saml10
testing9
templater8
template-tags8
security8
template-engine8
databinding6
windows-phone6
mvvm6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
IdentityPython/djangosaml2
Jan 2017 - Aug 2020
Django SAML2 Service Provider based on pySAML2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:49 commits, 27 PRs, 46 comments in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mathieu primarily contributed to the Django backend of the djangosaml2 project. Their work included implementing user-customizable error handling, improving logging, and addressing XSS vulnerabilities in the templates. They also made crucial bug fixes by adding a decode to fix template containing a b' prefix. The user also added testing and cleaned up outdated compatibility code.
pythonprovideridpdjangoauthentication
OTA-Insight/djangosaml2idp
Mar 2017 - Mar 2021
SAML 2.0 Identity Provider in Django
Contributions:4 releases, 99 commits, 67 PRs in 4 years
pythonprovideridpdjangosaml2
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