Wouter Van Hemel
Lead Developer at Montel Intergalactic
Kuopio, Mainland Finland
Summary
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SeniorWouter Van Hemel is a Lead Developer with 12 years of experience specializing at the intersection of security, development, and operations, helping organizations modernize cloud-native infrastructure and move to Kubernetes securely. He excels at translating specialist knowledge into pragmatic architectural guidance, choosing appropriate technologies, and preventing costly mistakes while enabling teams to focus on their core work. As a consultant and hands-on contributor he audits, teaches, and implements secure software supply chains, APIs, and cloud integrations for clients with high confidentiality, reliability, or security requirements. His background spans national-scale public services (Fairdata at the National Library of Finland) to private-sector security consulting, giving him a rare perspective on both open-science platforms and regulated industries. Based in Kuopio, Finland, he pairs technical leadership with a practical, mentorship-oriented style that favors maintainable, auditable outcomes. Outside work he’s a devoted guitarist, runner, and a reliably terrible dad-joke source, which keeps teams human during stressful projects.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, French, English, German, Finnish, Swedish, Latin
Github Skills (200)
component-library10
flask10
javascript10
text-based10
jwk10
golang10
markup10
wai-aria10
progressive10
wai10
vue10
combobox10
endpoint10
accessibility10
bootstrap10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
NatLibFi/qvain-js
Mar 2018 - Jul 2019
Qvain frontend
Contributions:260 commits, 2 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 4 months
frontend
NatLibFi/qvain-api
Mar 2018 - Jul 2019
Qvain backend
Contributions:124 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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