Stefan De Boey
Senior Java Developer at FDS, A DXC Technology Company
Zwijndrecht, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolStefan De Boey is a senior Java developer with over 15 years of hands-on experience and a 20+ year affinity for the JVM ecosystem, delivering scalable backend systems across public sector, manufacturing, and telecom domains. He combines deep Java (SE/EE), Spring and Hibernate expertise with Scala, Akka and functional techniques to build high-performance services and real-time processing pipelines. Stefan has designed and operated microservices on Kubernetes, implemented Elasticsearch-backed search APIs, and contributed reusable Spring Boot libraries to improve engineering productivity. He is comfortable across the full stack—Angular frontends, REST APIs, MongoDB/relational and NoSQL datastores—and automates testing and performance validation with tools like Locust and Python. An active open-source contributor, he added Swagger documentation support to the popular Scalatra Scala framework, enabling easier API discovery for developers. Based in Zwijndrecht, Belgium, he leverages AI tools to accelerate development and stays focused on pragmatic, maintainable solutions that solve real business problems.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Applied Informatics, Bachelor Applied Informatics at Karel de Grote-Hogeschool
Dutch, English, French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
json10
apidoc10
swagger10
scala10
api10
web-framework10
web-application9
java9
validation9
xsd9
jetty9
xml9
maven6
eclipse6
h26
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
scalatra/scalatra
Mar 2012 - May 2012
Tiny Scala high-performance, async web framework, inspired by Sinatra
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Stefan implemented initial support for Swagger documentation within the Scalatra framework. They added case classes and serializers for documenting routes, including JSON serialization. They also provided the necessary support for generating API documentation, including resource listings and operation definitions. These changes enabled developers to generate and serve Swagger documentation directly from their Scalatra applications.
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sdb/play2-metrics
Mar 2013 - Jul 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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