Olivier De Meulder
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
New York, NY, United States
Toptal member since June 18, 2019
Olivier is a pioneer of eCommerce, an entrepreneur, and a multifaceted software engineer who's passionate about the internet and web tech. He firmly believes that the best software engineers are the ones who know how to communicate and that this skill is crucial to a successful project. Olivier has worked on several varied projects with a range of technologies for companies big and small.
Portfolio
Experience
- C# - 15 years
- JavaScript - 8 years
- SQL Server 2012 - 6 years
- .NET Core - 3 years
- Agile - 3 years
- AngularJS - 2 years
- React - 2 years
- Vue - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Go, Java, PHP, React, C#, .NET
The most amazing...
...things I’ve built are completely unrelated: an online preview engine for a web-to-print app and a voice-over-IP solution for 500 customer service agents.
Work Experience
Engineering Manager
New York Times
- Designed a caching application for high availability and a low-latency application to support up to 30,000 requests per second; used AWS Elasticache.
- Architected the development of a new application to support specialty billing scenarios, using Java, Postgres and Apache Beam (GCP dataflow).
- Dismantled a legacy monolith application into micro-services; used Google App Engine and Java and Spring Boot.
- Developed a new REST API application using Go for a legacy application.
Senior Software Engineer
New York Times
- Developed custom features in a type of SugarCrm software to support over 500 customer service agents.
- Implemented a new voice-over-IP solution for 500 customer service users, including Computer Telephony Integration (CTI), using Amazon Connect.
- Evaluated the replacement of Backbone.js framework with React or Vue.js.
- Implemented a data warehousing application by hooking up an AWS Kinesis stream to an AWS lambda function into Google BigQuery, and finally created the reports in ChartIO.
- Developed an app to consume GCP pub sub-events, decode them from AVRO format, and placed them into a custom app.
Software Engineer
Autoloop
- Created a major integration with a third party by building a state machine to ingest hundreds of files on a daily basis.
- Developed several REST API endpoints for third parties to integrate with the company and decoupled the application using RabbitMQ.
- Built an interactive single-page application using AngularJS to allow users to upload a CSV file and map several columns to database fields.
- Performed in-depth database optimization research to increase performance by analyzing traces and execution plans and recommending new indexes.
Founder | CTO
Invitation Consultants
- Custom built a website with a shopping cart and credit card integration.
- Developed a custom content management system (CMS) for the maintenance of an eCommerce website.
- Created an online preview engine for a web-to-print application.
- Built a recommendation engine using collaborative filtering and a graph database, Neo4j.
- Create a geolocation application using Google Places API and Ruby on Rails.
- Developed an online portal to integrate with third-party vendors, including automatic submission of orders using XML.
- Built a reporting application to interact with Quickbooks API.
- Created a desktop application to scan barcodes and print UPS shipping labels.
Experience
Online Preview Technology
Personal Blog
https://github.com/odemeulder/pyblogEducation
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree in Business
University of Antwerp - Antwerp, Belgium
Master of Information Services (MIS) Degree in Business and Engineering
University of Antwerp - Antwerp, Belgium
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
AWS Certified Developer
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
Neural Networks for Machine Learning
Coursera
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, React, Vuex, Vue
Tools
RabbitMQ, SugarCRM, Adobe InDesign, Jenkins, Ansible
Languages
C#, JavaScript, PHP 7, PHP, Java, Java 10, Go, Python, Ruby
Paradigms
Agile
Frameworks
.NET, .NET Core, Ruby on Rails (RoR), AngularJS, Django, Ruby on Rails 4, Redux
Storage
SQL Server 2012, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Neo4j, Redis
Platforms
Oracle, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Windows, Drone CI
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