Summary
Tom Verelst is a software engineer with 11 years of professional experience building and operating Java Spring business applications across sectors, currently based in Antwerp. He favors domain-driven design and bounded contexts to keep systems simple, readable, and maintainable, and values collaborative practices like pair programming and thorough pull-request reviews. Tom has delivered scalable, event-driven backend features for social media platforms—chat, livestreaming, push and inbox notifications, search and deep links—and has led cloud and automation knowledge-sharing as a competence leader. Starting to code at age ten, he combines deep hands-on craftsmanship with mentoring and workshop experience, and recently launched his own venture while continuing engineering work at Kannika.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Bachelor, Computer Science, Professional Bachelor, Computer Science at Karel de Grote-Hogeschool
English, Dutch, French