Stein Desmet
Senior Software Engineer at leadlife
Merelbeke, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolStein Desmet is a Senior Software Engineer with over 13 years of experience designing and building secure mobile clients and Java backends, currently shaping architecture and delivery at leadlife and IT Generators. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from Ghent University and spent five years as a PhD researcher focused on Service-Oriented Architectures and resource-efficient load balancing for media and broadcasting environments. His career blends hands-on native mobile development (Android, iOS, Windows Phone) with identity provider and mobile payment systems, plus frontend work using AngularJS and Bootstrap. As a technical lead at Fluvius and long-term contributor at linkID, he’s proven at translating research-grade architectures into production-grade, security-conscious platforms. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architectural decisions that balance performance, security, and maintainability. Based in Merelbeke, Belgium, he brings a rare combination of academic rigor and long-standing product delivery in online security and mobile ecosystems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Science-Math, Science-Math at Sint-Hendriks- en Zusters MaricoleninstituutMaster, Informatics, Master, Informatics at Ghent University
English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (138)
facebook-sdk10
facebook-api10
swagger10
guice10
annotation-processor10
specification10
rest-api10
openapi10
mybatis-generator10
api-specification10
api10
rest10
azure10
cloud-api10
java10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sgdesmet/android-utils
Feb 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 1 year 8 months
sgdesmet/whatsapp-business-java-api
Dec 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 18 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
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