Summary
Stein 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 Maricoleninstituut
Master, Informatics, Master, Informatics at Ghent University
English, Dutch, French