Tom Desair
Solution Architect at itsme®
Hoegaarden, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolTom Desair is a cloud-native Solution Architect with a decade of hands-on experience guiding teams from vision to production, skilled at modernizing complex legacy systems while building scalable microservices and Kubernetes platforms. He designs GitOps-driven CI/CD and observability into architectures, balancing strategic roadmaps with pragmatic, iterative delivery and frequent stakeholder alignment. Prior roles at Cegeka and Atmire show a track record of building centralized customer portals and improving institutional repository backends, including concrete contributions to the DSpace project to optimize group management and DB migrations. Tom pairs architecture leadership with active engineering—rolling up his sleeves to coach teams and reduce technical debt during migrations. Based in Belgium, he brings a disciplined, measurable approach to success metrics and feedback loops, informed by an MSc in Computer Science from KU Leuven. Outside work he mentors at CoderDojo and rides the countryside, which he credits for creativity and patience in complex projects.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Engineering: Computer Science (option Software Engineering), Master of Science (MSc), Engineering: Computer Science (option Software Engineering) at KU LeuvenIngeniería de sistemas, Ingeniería de sistemas at Universidad Privada del NorteBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Hasselt University
English, French, Spanish, Dutch
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Github Skills (20)
postgresql10
java10
javas10
hibernate10
sql10
spring-boot9
dspace9
database-design9
jpa8
git-repository8
java-persistence-api8
package-repository8
rest-api7
mongodb6
cocos2d-x6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DSpace/DSpace
Feb 2016 - Mar 2019
(Official) The DSpace digital asset management system that powers your Institutional Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:252 commits, 59 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the DSpace backend, focusing on the implementation of features related to group management, specifically adding group names as a column, and creating unique indexes. They modified the Group entity and associated DAO implementations to optimize group searches and added a PostgreSQL migration script to update the database. The user also made modifications to the AuthorizeService and GroupService to leverage the updated Group information for more efficient membership checks.
management-systemopen-accessdigital-assetdigital-asset-managementpowers
tomdesair/DSpace
Feb 2016 - Mar 2019
(Official) The DSpace digital asset management system that powers your Institutional Repository
Contributions:2 PRs, 93 pushes, 29 branches in 3 years
management-systemdigital-assetdigital-asset-managementpowersinstitutional
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