Pieter De Schepper
VP Of Engineering at Timefold
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolPieter De Schepper is a seasoned engineering leader with 10+ years scaling consumer platforms and leading cross-functional teams for multi‑million user products like Twoo and Ablo. Currently VP of Engineering at Timefold, he blends hands-on expertise in backend, APIs, mobile and security with strategic roadmap and org design experience from roles at Massive//Media and Tinder. He has repeatedly led integrations after acquisitions, driving cross-continental collaboration and rapid delivery under tight deadlines while maintaining quality. A pragmatic technologist, he’s comfortable diving into development and data engineering work himself, and has contributed backend fixes to notable open-source projects such as google/budou. Trained in industrial engineering/management at KU Leuven and Sint‑Lieven, he pairs systems thinking with people-focused leadership to grow both teams and products. Colleagues know him for structuring diverse teams and turning complex architectural choices into executable long-term plans.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master Industrial Management, Master Industrial Management at KU LeuvenMaster Industrial Engineering, Master Industrial Engineering at Katholieke Hogeschool 'Sint-Lieven', Gent
English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (4)
natural-language-processing10
python10
web-development-project9
web-development9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google/budou
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Budou is an automatic organizer tool for beautiful line breaking in CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Pieter contributed to the `budou` project by addressing several key issues and enhancing the project's functionality. They focused on improving usability by ensuring the correct handling of standard input and output, addressing UTF-8 encoding issues, and displaying usage instructions when no input is provided. Their work also involved refactoring code, making the project more robust by ensuring a custom separator can be used, adding a separator function docstring and updating obsolete arguments.
chinesepythonline-breakingjapanesecjk
pieterdeschepper/timefold-solver
Nov 2023 - Nov 2024
The open source AI solver. Timefold is the successor of OptaPlanner, by the OptaPlanner team. Optimize the vehicle routing problem, employee rostering, task assignment, maintenance scheduling and other planning problems
Contributions:17 pushes, 7 branches in 11 months
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