Summary
Norbert Van Nobelen is a pragmatic CTO and Go/Kubernetes architect with over eight years focused on building high-availability, horizontally scalable microservice platforms across advertising, transport, transactional systems and internet entertainment. He has led product engineering at TX.org and previously headed product development at adacado, designing extreme-scale microservices, advanced caching and AI-driven ad solutions that achieved source compression ratios above 99%. Comfortable from database internals to cloud-native orchestration, he pairs deep performance and process analysis experience (Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres) with hands-on implementation in Go, Java, Docker, Istio, Knative and Kubernetes. His background includes leading cross-border DBA teams and landscape optimizations that cut TCO dramatically, showing a rare mix of operational discipline and architecture vision. Based in Vancouver, he combines founder-level entrepreneurial experience with enterprise-grade delivery, often rethinking legacy processes rather than simply replacing them. Colleagues know him for turning complex requirements into auditable, highly efficient systems and for bringing “out-of-the-box” engineering tradeoffs to pragmatic production reality.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
English, German, Dutch