Stijn Seghers
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolStijn Seghers is an independent software consultant and hands-on technical leader with 13 years of experience building SaaS across Rust, Python, and TypeScript for startups and scale-ups. He specialises in rescuing complex, legacy codebases—most recently leading a technical and cultural turnaround at Vectera that modernised a 250k LoC system, eliminated five years of tech debt, introduced continuous deployment and E2E testing, and helped drive +62% YoY net new MRR. Comfortable across front end, back end and cloud infrastructure, he prefers small, quality-first teams where he can remain an individual contributor while shaping strategy. His background includes shipping ML-heavy backend scheduling in Rust at Narrative and contributing performance-focused improvements to the popular moto AWS testing library. Stijn is Ghent-based and seeks staff/principal IC or engineering lead roles with direct coding time, ideally on products that advance economic equality, democracy, or climate action. He blends deep technical problem-solving with a pragmatic, consensus-driven leadership style and is available immediately for contract or permanent work.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Mathematics and Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Mathematics and Computer Science at Ghent University
English, Dutch, French
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Github Skills (25)
lib10
boto10
python10
ui-design10
uid10
aws10
front-end-development10
rust10
windows-gui10
aws-cloudformation9
s3-bucket8
ui-testing8
amazon-ec28
visual8
textual8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
enso-org/enso
Mar 2023 - May 2023
Enso Analytics is a self-service data prep and analysis platform designed for data teams.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:65 reviews, 21 PRs, 59 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Stijn contributed to the Enso Analytics platform by primarily focusing on frontend development and UI enhancements. They added new UI elements, such as icons, tooltips, and buttons to the graph editor and execution mode selector. The user also implemented a feature to enable/disable output context. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the text visualizations, showing a strong focus on improving the user interface and overall user experience.
polyglotjitfunctional-programminglanguage-designrts
getmoto/moto
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Stijn focused on optimizing the `moto` library by reducing import times. Their contributions involved making imports function-local, specifically for dependencies like `cfnlint`, `pkg_resources`, and `sshpubkeys`. The user also implemented lazy loading of submodules and fixed import errors related to this new loading strategy. These changes aimed to improve the library's startup performance.
ec2bototestinginfrastructureaws-infrastructure
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