Milan Van Der Meer
Staff Software Engineer, Hotels at Capital One
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
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Top SchoolMilan Van Der Meer is a Staff Software Engineer based in Brussels with 11 years of experience building distributed, microservices-driven systems across travel, fintech, and telecom domains. He specializes in Scala-based backend architectures using functional libraries (Cats, Cats-Effect), event-sourcing/CQRS, Kafka, Akka, and cloud-native deployment (Docker, Terraform, OpenShift), and has moved from hands-on engineering to staff-level ownership through roles at Paidy, ING, Hopper and now Capital One via acquisition. Milan’s work blends rigorous engineering (financial messaging, payments APIs) with operational observability improvements like ElasticAPM, reflecting a practitioner who ships resilient, observable systems. Educated in AI and computer science at KU Leuven and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, he pairs a research-informed mindset with production-grade delivery. An avid reader whose public Goodreads list hints at continuous learning, he often surfaces non-obvious design trade-offs between functional purity and pragmatic reliability in large-scale services.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Master's Degree, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence at KU LeuvenThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (200)
akka-cluster10
automation10
scheduler10
data-science10
apache10
apm10
airflow10
intellij10
python10
etl10
mlops10
data-engineering10
elt10
data-pipelines10
monitor10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
milanvdm/apm-agent-java
Feb 2020 - Oct 2021
Elastic APM Java Agent
Contributions:45 pushes, 6 branches, 3 tags in 1 year 7 months
agentapmelasticjava-agentelastic-apm
milanvdm/MedicalLSTM
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 115 pushes, 3 branches in 10 days
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