Svend Vanderveken
Back End Developer at Octave
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolSvend Vanderveken is a pragmatic back-end developer with 14+ years building data and service architectures across IoT, telecom, energy and public-sector projects, now focusing on battery monitoring and AWS Greengrass at Octave. He prefers Scala and Python and has led real-time platforms using Kafka, Flink, Spark and Druid, guiding teams on event schemas, ingestion and CI/CD. A strong advocate of "you run it, you ship it," he blends hands-on coding with infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible) and monitoring to keep systems production-ready. He has contributed to the famous Apache Airflow project by improving its unit test and CI infrastructure and fixing subtle logging and deserialization bugs, reflecting attention to testability and operational robustness. Trained in applied mathematics and optics, he brings analytical rigor to pragmatic engineering trade-offs and cross-team communication.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ir. (Computer Science), Informatique et gestion, Ir. (Computer Science), Informatique et gestion at UMONSUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaMRes, Optics, Human factors, MRes, Optics, Human factors at Cranfield University
French, English
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Github Skills (32)
unit-testing10
spark10
python10
scripting10
work-flow10
bash10
workflow-engine10
cicd10
automation10
apache-kafka10
automations10
orchestration10
devops10
hadoop9
data-engineering9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
DevOps & Backend Engineer
DevOps & Backend EngineerContributions:6 PRs, 11 comments, 3 issues in 4 months
Contributions summary:Svend primarily contributed to improving the unit testing infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for the Apache Airflow project. They introduced more flexible unit test execution by adding command-line parameters. Additionally, the user modified the Travis CI configuration to run integration tests on multiple database backends, enhancing the testing coverage. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to datetime handling in the logging system and fixed json deserialization within the variable functionality.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
svendx4f/altermotif
Nov 2011 - Jun 2013
Contributions:189 commits in 1 year 7 months
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