Nick Verlinde
Software Engineering Team Lead at European Commission
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolNick Verlinde is a software engineering team lead with 12+ years of hands-on experience building reliable, auditable production systems across fintech, commerce, and the public sector. He specializes in Java/JVM and event-driven architectures, with a strong track record in investment banking where correctness and uptime are non-negotiable. Nick has led and mentored small engineering teams, instituted solid practices around clean code, testing, CI/CD, and operated mission-critical systems under pressure. An early adopter of LLMs, he built the popular CLI tool Chatblade (~2.6k stars), giving him a pragmatic view of where AI adds value versus noise. Today he focuses on practical AI automation for SMEs—integrating AI into existing workflows to reduce manual, text-heavy work without breaking what already works. Based in Antwerp, he combines startup agility with enterprise-grade discipline to deliver dependable software.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Msc Management of IT, Msc Management of IT at University of NottinghamBsc Software Engineering, Bsc Software Engineering at Karel de Grote-Hogeschool
English, Dutch, Spanish, German
Stackoverflow
1,837reputation
32kreached
2answers
29questions
Github Skills (58)
linux10
ruby10
homebrew10
macos10
package-manager10
javascript9
material-ui9
react9
docker8
material-design8
typescript8
rethinkdb8
react-components8
caching8
golang8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
npiv/dots
Feb 2015 - Sep 2021
Contributions:9 pushes in 6 years 8 months
npiv/rethink-java-driver
May 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:66 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 9 months
rethinkdbrethinkdb-driverdatabaserethinkdb-javajava
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