Jérome Van Der Linden
Solutions architect & Software craftsman
📍 Geneva, Switzerland / Remote ✉️ jeromevdl at gmail dot com
📍 Geneva, Switzerland / Remote ✉️ jeromevdl at gmail dot com
Passionate software engineer and cloud technology expert with extensive experience in application modernization, microservices, DevOps, and serverless architectures. Active contributor to the tech community through blogging and speaking engagements (see publications). Seeking an engineering role to design and build cutting-edge cloud-native products that delight users while adhering to best practices.
✅ Cloud Computing - AWS
✅ Software craftsmanship
✅ Architecture (solutions, software)
✅ Agile & Devops methodologies
✅ Sharing (trainings, articles, conferences)
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Master's Degree in Engineering 2005
EPITA - School of Engineering and Computer Science (Paris, France)
Designing and building reusable assets (available on GitHub)
Main maintainer of Powertools for AWS Lambda (Java)
Creator of the AWS Lambda Java Tests library
Designing, building and deploying prototypes for customers (5-6 weeks engagements)
Designing and building internal tools at AWS
Sharing knowledge / advocacy through social networks, blog posts and conferences
Helping my customers in their journey to the cloud:
Guiding them in the AWS ecosystem with presentations, workshops, demos and sharing best practices
Helping in the design of well-architected applications and architecture reviews
Driving AWS adoption (identifying and pursuing opportunities) while ensuring they build the most cost-effective solutions
Member of the Serverless specialty, assisting customers in deeper questions and problems
Providing issues, feedbacks and feature requests to AWS service teams
Recruiting other Solutions Architect (interviews, technical assessments)
Sharing knowledge / advocacy through social networks, blog posts and conferences
Organising and facilitating in-person and virtual events, to share knowledge, discuss best practices, and network within the AWS community, growing from 130 members in 2019 to more than 600 today.
Iniated the Serverless Meetup Geneva and growing it from 0 to 130 members today.
Author of a monthly newsletter on Serverless technologies for more than one year.
Leading a development team of 12 developers: best practices around tests, automation, code quality, code reviews, katas, make them grow
Designing curriculums and providing trainings (software craftsmanship, git)
Introduction and animation of agile practices
Designing critical systems for my customers:
Modernisation of a legacy application with microservices, both technical (untangling / splitting the monolith) and organisational (devops, team structure, ...) in a assurance company
Redesigning fragrance and flavor creation application for better scalability and flexibility (CQRS, offline)
Redesigning a critical legacy automotive application with REST, SPA (AngularJS)
Designing and developing mobile applications: Android frontend, Java REST APIs for a big french newspaper, a digital bank, a credit company, an insurance, ...
Leading multiple Android development teams in agile context: design, code reviews, best practices, recruitment, and growing skills
Appaloosa Store is an internal mobile application store, private and secured for your company. As easy as the Google Play Store or the Apple Store, distribute your applications to your employees in just a few clicks.
Development of a business plan and presentation to the OCTO direction committee
Designing the product and development of the first version
Initial marketing
Development of many solutions for different customers, mainly in Java / JEE / Spring
Automating development and releases (CI/CD) and promoting best practices (automated tests, code reviews, code quality principles)
For the detailed list of experiences and customers, please reach out to me at jeromevdl at gmail dot com.