René De Waele
Co-Founder & CEO at Fluxzero
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRené De Waele is a software founder and architect with 11+ years building scalable, event-driven systems and a PhD-trained scientist’s approach to complex problems. As Co-Founder & CEO of Fluxzero he turned frustration with boilerplate and ops into a cloud runtime that helps teams ship backends without infrastructure overhead, scaling from MVPs to mission-critical systems. He’s an active contributor to the Axon Framework and a longtime practitioner of event sourcing, CQRS and DDD, bringing hands-on experience across Java, messaging and cloud-native tooling. René combines entrepreneurial grit from multiple startups with consultancy and in-house roles at organizations like Portbase and ANWB, balancing product focus with deep technical design. Less obvious: his background in experimental physics and a Caltech research stint inform a rigorous, evidence-driven approach to software architecture and reliability.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Physics, PhD Physics at Utrecht UniversityCalifornia Institute of Technology
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
78reputation
554reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (17)
eventstore10
cqrs10
event-sourcing10
java10
javas10
spring-boot10
mongodb-database9
jdbc9
mongodb9
jpa9
database-management8
api6
axon6
jta6
java-streams6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AxonIQ/AxonFramework
Aug 2015 - May 2017
Framework for Evolutionary Message-Driven Microservices on the JVM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:134 commits, 7 PRs, 112 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:René primarily worked on fixing build issues and other API changes within the Axon Framework, specifically related to the event store and its interactions with various database implementations (JPA, Mongo, JDBC). The user's commits involve code modifications across multiple modules (core, mongo, and JDBC), indicating a focus on improving the framework's stability and functionality. These changes include modifications to test classes, suggesting a focus on ensuring proper event storage, retrieval, and upcasting.
jvmmessage-drivenmicroservicesjavacqrs
flux-capacitor-io/flux-capacitor-io.github.io
Sep 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.