Niels Meersschaert
Fractional CTO CPO at Freelance
Town of Bedford, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNiels Meersschaert is a seasoned technology leader with 17 years of experience building high-scale, data-driven systems and leading product and engineering teams across startups and global consultancies. As a Fractional CTO/CPO he advises clients on AI/ML strategy, product vision and engineering operations, drawing on senior leadership roles at McKinsey where he ran global banking solutions and scaled an innovation hub fivefold. He has deep hands-on experience architecting large graph and high-throughput systems (notably building one of the largest Neo4j deployments and high-concurrency ingestion pipelines) and migrating platforms across AWS and Google Cloud. Niels blends product intuition with low-level technical craft—spanning NodeJS, Ruby, MongoDB, Hadoop/Spark and cloud messaging—while also shaping technologist career development and vendor strategy. He’s comfortable shifting between incubation, platform scale, and client-facing delivery, and has a track record of turning research-level ideas (e.g., Intent Quality) into production impact. Based in Bedford, NY, he pairs strategic leadership with practical engineering mentorship to help organizations modernize and monetize complex data products.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Television & Film Production, BS Television & Film Production at Hofstra University
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Github Skills (55)
codeclimate8
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google-drive-api6
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asp-net6
angularjs6
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nielsm/metric_fu
Jul 2009 - Aug 2010
Contributions:11 commits in 1 year 1 month
nielsm/tracker-ical
Jul 2010 - Apr 2011
Contributions:27 commits in 9 months
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