Tim Cools
Electronic Music Lover DJ Producer at Tim Cools
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolTim Cools is a seasoned software engineer with 12+ years of experience building scalable, event-driven back-ends, distributed systems, and high-performance architectures across .NET and JavaScript ecosystems. He has led architecture and teams, migrated legacy systems to cloud-friendly, CQRS/Event Sourcing designs, and contributed backend/database engineering work to notable open-source projects like Marten (a .NET transactional document DB on PostgreSQL). Equally at home profiling low-level performance issues as he is designing CI/CD, automated testing and resilient message-driven systems, Tim pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and architecture. Outside software he is a long-time electronic music DJ/producer and party organizer since the 1990s, bringing a creative, community-oriented mindset to his technical work. He also founded a psychedelic community resource and taught mindfulness, reflecting a commitment to wellbeing, harm reduction and inclusive communities. Based in Antwerp, Tim combines deep technical craft with a rare blend of creative practice and human-centered leadership.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Secundary Industrial Informatics, Secundary Industrial Informatics at Technische Scholen MechelenBachelor's degree Informatics, Bachelor's degree Informatics at BIRM Anvers
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (17)
eventstore10
postgresql10
documentdb10
net10
dotnet10
event-sourcing10
asp-net10
document-database10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
testing9
dispose6
visual-studio6
mstest6
unit-testing6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JasperFx/marten
Nov 2015 - Nov 2016
.NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:59 commits, 26 PRs, 51 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Tim's commits primarily focus on implementing and modifying core features of a transactional Document DB and Event Store built on PostgreSQL. Their contributions involve the development of new functionality, specifically the addition of an `EntityMap` for loading documents and the implementation of schema modifications. The commits also include refactoring and additions to the database layer, and expanding functionalities through the development of various new tests. The user's work also includes support for immutable events and custom Id generators.
dotnetmartenevent-sourcingtransactionalsql
tim-cools/soloco-talks
May 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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