Niek Candaele
Lead AI Engineer at RightCrowd
Bruges Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolNiek Candaele is a software engineering manager with nine years of experience building cloud-native backend systems and secure on-prem platforms from Belgium. He led architecture and automation efforts at RightCrowd, designing an internal deployment application that cut new-customer deployment time from months to minutes and now manages platform reliability across managed Kubernetes (Azure) and air-gapped RKE2 environments. Skilled across DevOps, serverless AWS, containers, and full-stack engineering, he has delivered scalable data-processing features such as a COVID-era contact processing pipeline and an AI-driven photo recommendation system. A pragmatic leader and hands-on engineer, Niek combines operational rigor with product-focused engineering to tame ambiguous technical problems and accelerate business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at HOWEST Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
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Github Skills (166)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
niekcandaele/Support-bot
Dec 2020 - Feb 2025
Highly customized Discord support bot
Contributions:2 reviews, 34 PRs, 57 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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niekcandaele/Bill
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
Bill is a discordbot that likes to play 7 days to die
Contributions:1 release, 245 commits, 5 PRs in 6 months
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