Wouter Groeneveld

As a Brain Baker, my broad areas of interest facilitate baking diffuse thoughts into concrete new ideas. I love inspiring others to bake their brain (and bread) as well.
As a software development generalist, I am fluent in a variety of languages and technologies. I approach problems test-first and value knowledge sharing. I took on various roles from agile coaching to technical lead.
As an academic researcher, I study how software engineers creatively discover and solve problems. I value science communication and summarize findings for broader audiences. I regularly teach both in industry and in academia.

Curriculum Vitae

2024—now
Tech Lead, Nexuzhealth
I coordinate and facilitate technical discussions within our team and other domain teams, architects, and the product division. I coach software developers, help design and implement the solution architecture, reducing technical debt along the way.
Go, Google Cloud Spanner, Kubernetes, Grafana
2024—now
Independent Brain Baker, Brain Baking (own company)
As a software architect, I support and coach software development teams and help laying out, maintaining, and redesigning architectures of medium to large software projects, without sticking to just one technology stack. As a writer, I translate tech and science into comprehensive books and posts. As a baker, I organize bread baking workshops.
2018—2023
PhD Researcher, KU Leuven
I divide my time between 50% research, studying creativity in computing education, and 50% teaching, building many courses from scratch, including fundamental software design and advanced software engineering, databases, and operating systems.
TeX, Node, Python, Android, C++, Kotlin/Java
2016—2018
Guest Lecturer, PXL Hasselt
I teach clean code and test-driven development courses to both college students and their teachers to further support the informatics curriculum.
2014—2018
Senior Software Developer, Prato
I coach and support colleagues within and across multiple software development teams. I help lay the foundations for a self-improvement culture and give multiple internal and external talks on motivation, inspiration, and productivity.
C#/.NET, ExtJS, MSSQL, Azure, Octopus Deploy
2012—2014
Teamcoach, Cegeka
I develop software together with the rest of the team while also helping overcome technical and collaborative challenges. I coach junior developers and monitor and safeguard our internal agile values.
Java, Spring, MongoDB, Vaadin, AngularJS, C#/.NET
2011—2014
Guest Lecturer, Thomas More, Geel
I teach multiple workshops and courses, such as: JavaScript as a dynamic and functional language, agile software engineering, and an introduction to self-improvement and getting things done.
2007—2012
Agile Software Developer, Cegeka
I am part of the Cegeka Agile Software Factory that delivers enterprise software with co-located teams. I help facilitate lean software development principles such as pair programming and test-driven development.
Java, Spring, Hibernate, JEE, JSF, JavaScript, Oracle SQL

Education & Training

2018—2023 Doctor of Engineering Technology, KU Leuven
Thesis: Identifying & Amplifying Non-Technical Skills In Software Engineering Education.
2013—2016 Professional Bread & Pastry Baker, Syntra
I did an internship at renowned bakery De Superette in Ghent to specialize in sourdough bread baking. I maintain a bread baking blog and wrote a book on the science of sourdough.
2003—2007 Master of Computer Science, Hasselt University
Specialization: Human Computer Interaction.
Certificates Sun Certified Java Developer & Programmer, Zend Certified PHP Engineer, SpringSource Certified Spring Professional, Certified Scrum Master.
Programming Languages Expert in: JavaScript, Java, C#/.NET, PHP, HTML/CSS.
Experience with: Python, Kotlin, Go, C/C++, SQL, Bash/shells.

dr. Wouter Groeneveld

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