Niek Candaele
Software Engineering Manager at RightCrowd
Bruges Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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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.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen - Vlaamse Autonome Hogeschool
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
CatalysmsServerManager/7-Days-to-Die-API-wrapper
Jun 2018 - May 2022
🌯 Interact with a 7DTD web API
Contributions:14 releases, 129 commits, 71 PRs in 4 years
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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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