Summary
Vandenbogaerde Nicolas is a seasoned backend engineer with 17 years of experience designing scalable distributed systems, microservices, and AI-augmented applications, primarily using Ruby on Rails and Elixir. He has led engineering efforts across startups and remote teams—building real estate back offices, payment gems, and telephony/AI prototypes integrating Twilio and IBM Watson—while improving performance with Redis, Docker, and Kubernetes. An active OSS contributor in the Ruby ecosystem (Rails, RSpec, RuboCop, Redis), he’s been recognized by the Rails Foundation and featured in the US press. He combines hands-on coding, architecture definition and mentoring—regularly tutoring juniors and running tech demos—to raise team craft and delivery. Based in Dinan, France, he pairs deep backend expertise with a practical interest in AI-driven features and developer tooling.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bac sti electronique, Bac sti electronique at lycée condorcet, montreuil
Diplôme d'ingénieur, Ingénierie informatique, Diplôme d'ingénieur, Ingénierie informatique at insia
TOEFL, TOEFL at Salem State University
Bts informatique de gestion, Bts informatique de gestion at Lycée charles de Foucauld
Toeic, Toeic at linguaphone (formation anglais)