Rik Vanmechelen
Associate Director, Enterprise Applications
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRik Vanmechelen is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and running complex digital systems for cultural institutions, currently heading Software Engineering at The Museum of Modern Art. He combines hands-on technical roots in Ruby on Rails, Go and Swift with strategic leadership—scaling global teams of 25+ engineers, managing multi-million-dollar programs, and delivering enterprise platforms like MoMA.org, POS/kiosk systems, and a data warehouse used daily by 300 staff. Rik has a master's in computer science and brings a mission-driven approach to product and architecture, having led migrations (Salesforce Commerce Cloud to Shopify), linked open data initiatives, and features that measurably increased ticket sales. He teaches graduate courses on cultural heritage tech at Pratt Institute, pairing academic rigor with practical delivery, and is pushing sustainable AI practices to amplify engineering impact across the museum.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Applied Sciences and Engineering: Computer Science Web & Information Systems Engineering, Master of Science in Applied Sciences and Engineering: Computer Science Web & Information Systems Engineering at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dutch, English, French
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Github Skills (36)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rikvanmechelen/Asp.netMVCPatchExample
Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 8 months
rikvanmechelen/pratt-info-638-class-project
Jan 2024 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
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