Summary
Michael De Lang is an Embedded Software Team Lead and C++ architect with 15 years' experience designing maintainable, data-driven systems for embedded, cloud and large-scale government projects. With dual degrees in Electrical and Software Engineering, he blends low-level expertise in latency, throughput and WCET analysis with pragmatic architecture for long-lived, multi-team systems. He has led and mentored cross-functional teams at companies from startups to ChargePoint and Thales, shipping safety-critical firmware and telematics while steering architecture, processes and compliance. As a freelancer under Volt Software he navigates varied contexts—from scaling SMEs to fixed-price government contracts—and enjoys teaching others to elevate engineering craft. Notably, his background includes optimizing petabyte-scale pipelines and applying Domain-Driven boundaries to minimize long-term overhead in distributed systems.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Software Engineering, Master's degree Software Engineering at University of Amsterdam
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Saxion University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch, German, Spanish, Korean