Niels Claeys
Partner at Dataminded
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolNiels Claeys is a seasoned data engineer and partner with a decade of hands-on experience building distributed, cloud-native data platforms and reusable infrastructure. He has moved from consultancy to product development, driving backend systems in Go for data product tooling (Conveyor) that integrate with Azure, AWS and Kubernetes. His background spans streaming and batch architectures using Kafka, Spark and Kubernetes, and he consistently emphasizes maintainability and user experience in platform design. Niels combines deep technical curiosity—often explored in technical blog posts—with practical delivery across industries like aviation and telecom. Colleagues know him for turning complex pipelines into composable building blocks that reduce cognitive load for engineers.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science: Master of engineering (Burgerlijk Ingenieur), Computer Science, Master of Science: Master of engineering (Burgerlijk Ingenieur), Computer Science at KU LeuvenData mining specialization, Data mining specialization at CourseraLatin-Math, Latin-Math at Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege Westmalle
French, English, German, Dutch
Github Skills (112)
python10
metadata10
terraform10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
governance10
orchestration10
apache-airflow10
datahub10
data-engineering10
scheduler10
elt10
data-integration10
data-pipelines10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nclaeys/fluent-bit-go-azure
Jan 2025 - Mar 2026
Fluentbit output plugin in go to write to Azure logs ingestion API
Contributions:36 PRs, 50 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 2 months
azurefluent-bitgo
datamindedbe/kubernetes_academy_course
Aug 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 63 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
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