BIO
Staff Software Engineer: 11+ years at Google, 10+ as Tech Lead, 5 as People Manager
Designing and building ultra large scale data processing pipelines and back-end systems. Worked on Gmail, Google Chat, GSuite Security Center & Google's in-house cyber security Detection & Response Platform
EXPERIENCE
Feb 2014 – Present
Google
Staff Software Engineer (TL) - AppHub, Google Cloud Platform
- Provided technical leadership for the GCP AppHub team, focusing on data ingestion strategies.
- Lead the development of the ingestion systems to power unified application-centric platform for Google's Cloud offerings.
Staff Software Engineer (TL/M) - Detection & Response Pipeline, Core
- Led the development of the enrichment component for Google's next-generation Detection & Response Pipeline, processing over 100M events per second.
- Successfully deprecated the legacy detection system, enhancing operational efficiency for security teams across Google.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enrich security logs at 10M+ QPS from thousands of diverse data sources.
Staff Software Engineer (TL/M) - Google Chat, Cloud
- Led the "Google Chat Integrations" team during the pivotal consolidation of Google Chat with Gmail and Meet.
- Designed and implemented multiple back-end integrations with Google Meet, Tasks, and Drive to enhance user experience.
Senior Software Engineer (TL/M) - GSuite Security Center, Cloud
- I spearheaded the infrastructure engineering initiatives for the GSuite Security Center. I led a 10+ team in creating the 'Action Pipeline' for the Security Investigation Tool, capable of performing security mitigations at high volume.
- Additionally, I designed the Security Rules project, empowering customers to automate security detections based on custom queries, ultimately enhancing their security posture.
Senior Software Engineer (TL) - Learning & Development, CorpEng
- Joined the company as a Software Engineer working on 'Celsus' a back-end system capable of aggregating the content from Google's many Learning & Development systems and surfacing them into a unified front-end.
- Starting TLing the team after ~2 years.
Feb 2013 – Jan 2014
Mindspark, an IAC/InterActiveCorp company, New York City
Software engineer (back-end)
- As the sole back-end engineer for the 'recipes' project, I architected and developed a REST API using Spring MVC, which is currently used to power recipe related smart answers for the ask.com search engine.
- I joined the back-end development team of price finder, a tool which extracts product information on online retail websites and provides price comparison information.
- There I developed our automation site modelling solution, adding support for 3000+ online merchants in one day.
- I spearheaded, designed and developed our regression tool: A fully automated and distributed systems which checks for data extraction failures on thousands of supported websites.
May 2009 – Dec 2012
Smals, Brussels, Belgium
Java Developer
- Using technologies such as Spring, GWT, Drools and Spring batch we modernized and automated this department's two functions: to process data flows between government departments and to use that data to calculate and pay social security payments to millions of Belgians.
- As the sole developer of the work planning module, I successfully used OptaPlanner in order to implement a solution for the organisation's employee scheduling problem.
- The main challenge laid in translating the extremely complicated and continuously changing business processes caused by decades of law-making into a robust, scalable and easily maintainable system.
Feb 2008 – Dec 2008
3RDSense Australia Pty, Sydney, Australia
Flash game developer
- I was given the chance to developed a couple of my own games from scratch. Both games ended up being very successful driving web traffic back to the company's games portal.
Sep 2007 – mid 2009
Self employed
Web application developer
- Designed and built web applications for the Facebook platform using my knowledge of PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and Flash.
- At the height of their success the combined applications reached 1.5M unique visitors a month.
EDUCATION
2006 - 2007
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
MSc. Multimedia Systems
2001 - 2006
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
MSc. Computer Science
