Summary
Niels Delestinne is a pragmatic full-stack developer and tech lead with nine years of experience building maintainable Java and Angular applications for complex, high-availability domains like payroll and wind-turbine assembly. He combines hands-on coding, pairing and architecture design with coaching and workshop facilitation, having led a 10-person team and helped found a developer retraining program. Niels is an advocate of software craftsmanship and eXtreme Programming, favoring readable, well-tested code and thoughtful designs that address operational concerns. His recent work includes designing a measurement-coordination system for Siemens Gamesa and implementing a contract-testing strategy across microservices for a national payroll engine. Based in Diest, Belgium, he brings a creative, continuous-learning mindset and practical ops experience from configuring production infrastructure to his solutions.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) MSc. Applied Informatics, Master of Science (M.S.) MSc. Applied Informatics at KU Leuven
ASO Mathematics (6 hrs) & Science, ASO Mathematics (6 hrs) & Science at Sint-Franciscus college
Bachelor's degree Applied Informatics: Application development, Bachelor's degree Applied Informatics: Application development at Hogeschool PXL
Dutch, English, French