Wouter Coekaerts
IT Consultant at Branch Consulting
Herentals, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolWouter Coekaerts is a senior software engineer and IT consultant with 21 years of experience architecting scalable Java-based systems and evolving legacy stacks into modern Spring- and streaming-driven platforms. He played a pivotal technical leadership role at Block (Square), rebuilding reconciliation systems for IPO readiness and building ML data infrastructure that underpins fraud controls and underwriting across products handling $400B+ in annual transactions. Experienced in both backend systems and security-minded engineering, he has led teams delivering real-time feature extraction and data pipelines that scaled to 100+ product integrations. Early career work modernizing banking and insurance back-office frameworks and ongoing open-source contributions (including deep core fixes to the irssi IRC client) reflect a pragmatic engineer who balances operational rigor with hands-on coding. Now based near Antwerp and open to opportunities, he also pursues side projects like FlowTracker demonstrating continuous curiosity and practical tool-building.
21 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at KU LeuvenPius X
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Github Skills (20)
debug10
c1110
java10
c1710
irc10
tostring9
bitmap9
actionscript9
timezone9
maven9
generics6
logging6
design-patterns6
surefire6
php6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
irssi/irssi
Sep 2004 - Jul 2010
The client of the future
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:137 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Wouter primarily focused on fixing bugs and implementing enhancements related to the IRC client's core functionality. Their contributions included addressing issues with commands like `/WHOIS` and `/JOIN`, and also working on the proxy and hilight features. The user's work involved changes to code across multiple source files, including core IRC commands, channel management, and message handling. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of the project's internal workings.
irssirustirc-clientsaslirc-protocol
coekie/gentyref
Dec 2008 - Nov 2021
Contributions:79 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 13 years 1 month
reflectionjavareflection-librarygeneric
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