Jérome Van Der Linden

Work Experiences (summary)

Senior Prototyping Architect - AWS (Geneva)   Nov 2022 - Today

• 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

Solutions Architect - AWS (Geneva)   Aug 2018 - Oct 2022

• 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

AWS Geneva User Group / Serverless Meetup leader (Geneva)   2019 - Today

• 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.

Tech Leader, Trainer & Coach - OCTO Technology (Lausanne)   Sep 2016 - Dec 2017

• 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 

Solutions Architect - OCTO Technology (Lausanne)     Sep 2015 - Jun 2018

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)

Tech Leader Mobile - OCTO Technology (Paris)       Sep 2011 - July 2015

• 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

Co-founder Appaloosa Store - OCTO Technology (Paris)     Jun 2011 - Dec 2011

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

Developer and software craftsman - OCTO Technology (Paris)   Aug 2005 - May 2011

• 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)