Patrick Dessalle
Senior Solutions Architect at DatafeedAPI.com
Brussels, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Dessalle is a Senior Solutions Architect and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience designing payment platforms, SaaS integrations and adtech products from Brussels. He has led large-scale banking implementations at Clear2Pay/FIS for clients like Commerzbank, Credit Suisse and Euroclear, built crypto and BaaS tooling at Motive Partners, and founded DatafeedAPI.com and Shoptimate to simplify affiliate marketing. Technically fluent in Java and Python, he marries deep backend engineering with pragmatic product focus—often translating complex customer requirements into resilient, enterprise-grade systems. He currently architects customs message workflows for national and EU ICS2 compliance while still maintaining open-source Python tooling such as an enhanced Amazon Product Advertising API wrapper. Holding a Master in Software Engineering (ULB) and a Master in Management (Solvay), he blends rigorous technical training with business acumen. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on architect who prefers shipping practical, long-lived solutions over theoretical designs.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
KU LeuvenMaster Civil Engineer in computer sciences, Master Civil Engineer in computer sciences at Université libre de BruxellesCollège Saint-MichelMaster Management, Master Management at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management
French, English, Dutch, Japanese
Github Skills (7)
urllib10
api10
python10
apidoc10
amazon-web-services9
error-handling9
networking8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lionheart/bottlenose
Dec 2011 - Jun 2014
A Python wrapper for the Amazon Product Advertising API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the Amazon Product Advertising API wrapper. Their contributions included adding timeout functionality to improve request handling and error management. They also added service domains for additional Amazon marketplaces, specifically Spain and India. Furthermore, the user appears to be maintaining the library by merging updates from the upstream repository.
apiamazon-productpythonpython-wrapperamazon
patrickdessalle/periscope
May 2011 - Jan 2016
Python module searching subtitles on the web. Used in plugins for the GNOME desktop.
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 8 months
pygobjectpythongnomepython-modulepython3
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