Tom Eyckmans
Principal Engineer at Showpad
Wuustwezel, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolTom Eyckmans is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience building Java-based, cloud-native systems and a strong focus on Kubernetes and Spring Boot. Currently at Showpad and running his own consultancy, he architects and ships containerized backends using Micronaut, Kotlin, TypeScript, and serverless AWS patterns while guiding teams through production-grade deployments. He brings deep operational experience—from single-table DynamoDB designs and messaging with SQS/Kinesis to large-scale Oracle maintenance and release management—and a history of improving developer workflows (Gradle contributions and build migrations). Tom stays technically ahead by contributing to open source and exploring build tooling and parallel test execution, combining practical delivery with a penchant for tooling improvements that boost team productivity. Based in Wuustwezel, Belgium, he pairs enterprise consulting experience with entrepreneurial initiative, often tackling the intersection of developer ergonomics and resilient cloud architecture.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
applied informatics commercial and business, applied informatics commercial and business at Karel de Grote-Hogeschool
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Github Skills (60)
kotlin10
python10
groovy10
aws-lambda10
java10
automation10
sst10
lambda10
gradle10
javascript9
serverless-stack9
capability9
full-stack9
csharp9
aws9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
teyckmans/ui-rig
Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:24 commits, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
teyckmans/http2-push
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:11 commits, 12 pushes in 1 day
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