Youri Ackx
Software Craftsman at Sugoi Consulting
Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Walloon Brabant, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolYouri Ackx is a Software Craftsman with 12+ years crafting pragmatic, business-focused systems across Java, Python and a variety of languages (Go, Groovy, Swift, Scala, C). Based in Belgium, he blends full‑stack development, DevOps and Agile coaching—often acting as Scrum Master and trainer—to help teams deliver clean, lean and secure solutions. He has led technical architecture and GDPR/security initiatives as CTO and built IoT-enabled mobility backends, GraphQL/REST APIs and cloud-native deployments on GCP and Kubernetes. A practical open-source contributor, he implemented and refined DuckDuckGo’s “Uptime” instant answer in Perl, showing attention to user-facing detail as well as backend robustness. Former founder of an assistive iPad app and frequent corporate trainer, he pairs entrepreneurial curiosity with a law background that informs his strong focus on compliance and privacy.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in law, Law, Bachelor in law, Law at Université libre de BruxellesAnalyst-programmer, Computer Science, Grande distinction / Magna cum laude, Analyst-programmer, Computer Science, Grande distinction / Magna cum laude at Institut Paul Lambin
French, Dutch, Spanish, English
Github Skills (5)
instant-view10
duckduckgo10
perl10
instantsearch10
javascript4
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on Perl & JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 12 days
Contributions summary:Youri primarily contributed to the "Uptime" goodie, a feature within the DuckDuckGo instant answers system. They developed the core logic for calculating and displaying downtime durations, using Perl. Their work included defining triggers, handling user input, and formatting the output. They also refactored the code by adopting DDG::GoodieRole::NumberStyler and improved the presentation of the output.
javascriptduckduckgoinstant-answersperlinstant
yackx/c64
May 2023 - Oct 2024
Commodore 64 MOS 6510 asm programming 💾
Contributions:8 PRs, 44 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 5 months
8bitasmc64retrocomputingroutines
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