Ruben Vermeersch
Founder at Independent
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolRuben Vermeersch is a founder and seasoned full-stack software engineer with 20 years of experience building products, architectures and DevOps enablement, currently running Garage 61 to create innovative motorsports software. He blends hands-on systems work in Go and Kubernetes with product-minded engineering, having co-founded Flow Pilots and led technical direction for fast-growing teams. Ruben is an active open-source contributor—his work on projects like sql-migrate and gorocksdb shows a focus on reliable backend tooling, migrations and native bindings that improve developer workflows. His background includes research and internships with GNOME and Google Summer of Code, reflecting a long-term commitment to open communities and tooling for media and data formats. Based in Leuven, Belgium, he pairs deep technical rigor with entrepreneurship and a practical emphasis on infrastructure, automation and operational resilience. A less obvious thread through his career is a sustained interest in low-level data handling (media metadata, DB bindings, migrations), which informs his pragmatic approach to system design.
20 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at KU LeuvenAutomotive Technology, Automotive Technology at Thomas More University of Applied Sciences
French, English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
database-migrations10
tiff10
meta10
rocksdb10
command-line-interface10
metadata10
file-parsing10
file-format10
jpeg10
go10
parsing10
sql10
file-parser10
dotnet-core10
data-handling10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rubenv/sql-migrate
Sep 2014 - Jan 2023
SQL schema migration tool for Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 7 reviews, 196 commits in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ruben primarily contributed to the core functionality of the SQL schema migration tool. They implemented the ability to read migrations from SQL files and added support for applying and rolling back migrations, including adding down migrations. The user also added a dry-run mode and implemented a plan migration feature to enable a more controlled migration process. These changes involved modifying the migration logic and adding command-line interface capabilities.
golangsql-schemamysqlsqlsql-schema-migration
mono/taglib-sharp
Oct 2009 - Apr 2011
Library for reading and writing metadata in media files
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:194 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ruben primarily worked on implementing and enhancing the metadata handling capabilities of the project. Their contributions included adding support for various image file formats, notably for parsing and writing metadata in formats like TIFF and JPEG, and the corresponding extraction of metadata properties. They also added unit tests to validate metadata invariants and modifications across multiple file types, ensuring code quality. Furthermore, the user focused on adding support for storing image data into new formats like the RAW and DNG formats.
id3v2mp3mp4media-filesvideo
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