Sam De Backer
Senior Software Development Engineer at iReact
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolSam De Backer is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 11+ years of experience specializing in Scala and the Lightbend reactive stack (Akka, Play, Slick) to build CQRS/event-sourced microservices for Big Data, GIS and real-time data domains. He combines hands-on engineering, architecture and analysis—having led solutions in advertising telemetry, government transport systems and targeted marketing pipelines using Spark, AWS, Postgres and TypeScript/Angular frontends. A former researcher with a KU Leuven Master in Computer Science, Sam pairs deep academic grounding with practical roles from technical architect to team lead and business owner. He is comfortable designing resilient, clustered Akka systems with persistence and sharding and has applied them to production-scale streaming problems like TV-ad synchronization and construction/transport workflows. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex domain requirements (e.g., GIS and real-time bidding) into pragmatic, maintainable architectures. Based in Leuven, he is seeking environments that appreciate specialist drive and continued focus on Scala/Akka and data-driven solutions.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering, Master in Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering at KU LeuvenLatijn-Wiskunde (Latin-Mathematics), Latijn-Wiskunde (Latin-Mathematics) at St.-Vincentius College, Ieper
Dutch, English, French
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Github Skills (46)
dashboard8
monitoring8
mysql8
visualization7
analytics7
compiler-plugin7
prometheus7
elasticsearch7
data-visualization7
go6
grafana6
visualize6
scala6
apache-spark6
influxdb5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ireactsam/akka-persistence-postgresql
Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
An akka-persistence plugin for Postgresql
Contributions:3 pushes in 11 months
akka-persistence-pluginscalapostgresakkapostgresql
ireactsam/hello-circleci
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 2 days
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