Olivier De Meulder
Senior Director Of Engineering, Commerce Platforms
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolOlivier De Meulder is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years in software leadership and two decades of entrepreneurial and consulting experience, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering for Commerce Platforms at The New York Times. He leads ~50 engineers to modernize subscription, billing, payments, and revenue accounting systems, driving initiatives that reduce involuntary churn and improve observability and SLO-driven reliability. Known for breaking monoliths into microservices and delivering measurable delivery improvements, he pairs strategic product thinking with hands-on architecture and operational rigor. His background includes founding e-commerce ventures and building web-to-print and recommendation systems, giving him a rare mix of product, business and technical depth. Trained at MIT Sloan and with an MBA and engineering background from the University of Antwerp, he blends executive leadership skills with deep systems and payments expertise. Colleagues describe him as a metrics-focused coach who scales teams and systems while keeping a founder’s eye for revenue impact.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at University of AntwerpExecutive Certificate Management and Leadership, Executive Certificate Management and Leadership at MIT Sloan School of ManagementHigh School, High School at onze lieve vrouwe college
French, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (60)
amazon-connect9
angularjs8
membership8
contact-center8
modular7
amazon7
single-page-application7
csharp7
strings7
entity-framework-core7
yelp7
localization7
api7
html6
sql-server6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
odemeulder/pley
May 2019 - Jan 2022
Study project using dotnet core, react, postgres, Yelp style application.
Contributions:48 commits, 13 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 years 8 months
reactdotnetreact-coredockeryelp
odemeulder/react-redux-class
May 2018 - Jun 2019
From a Pluralsight class
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
dotnetpluralsight
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