Summary
Michiel Huygen is a Lead Programmer with 15 years of experience building performant, scalable software and real-time systems from Leuven, Belgium. He currently architects pathfinding, performance optimization, and core systems for the RTS title Starship Troopers - Terran Command, bringing a game-developer’s focus on deterministic behaviour and efficiency. As founder and technical lead of Sleek he designed cross-platform architectures to help users regain control of personal data, combining product ownership with hands-on engineering. Earlier roles include accelerating large-scale document migrations by 10x and building backwards-compatible REST APIs and integration test systems for enterprise content platforms. Comfortable moving between DevOps, automated testing and core application architecture, he blends research experience from KU Leuven with practical startup and studio delivery. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who favors elegant, measurable improvements over cargo-culted technologies.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science at KU Leuven
Dutch, English, French