Pieter Soels
Software Engineering at Picnic Technologies
North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPieter Soels is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently improving developer efficiency as a Developer Platform engineer on Picnic’s Java Platform team. He combines strong academic credentials—a cum laude MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Amsterdam—with hands-on platform work automating CI/CD, dependency management, authorization and an extensible DSL to streamline developer workflows. Previously he led technical efforts at Xillio, architecting a uniform API for 20+ CMS connectors, driving CI/CD, multi-tenancy and integration projects, and starting his career building a widely used scripting language and IDE for content migration. Pieter’s background shows a consistent focus on reducing cognitive load for engineers through tooling and automation, and his thesis research applied data-driven methods to identify microservice boundaries in legacy monoliths. Based in North Holland, he blends practical product delivery with research-informed engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 7.7, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 7.7 at Utrecht UniversityMaster of Science - MSc, Software Engineering, 8.6 (cum-laude), Master of Science - MSc, Software Engineering, 8.6 (cum-laude) at University of Amsterdam
Dutch, English
Github Skills (77)
abstract-syntax-tree10
refactoring10
static-analysis10
java10
battery10
code-transformation10
checkers10
spinnaker10
error-prone10
authentication9
aws9
updating9
velocity9
auth-service9
azure8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
xillio/xillio-api-release-notes
Jan 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Badbond/jacoco
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
:microscope: Java Code Coverage Library
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 8 PRs in 2 months
jvm-bytecodemicroscopejacocogroovyjava-agent
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