Axel Smeets
A creative and
autonomous
software engineer
tel. 070 687 88 16
Lund, Skåne
About me
I am a thoughtful and self-motivated computer scientist with experience in the design and development of distributed systems. My area of interest is broad, and I seize every opportunity to deepen and expand my knowledge. My personal motto is to use the right tools from my toolbox to build effective and goal-oriented solutions.
At the age of 12, I stumbled upon programming by chance when I joined a community that made custom maps for Warcraft 3. This interest spiraled out of control, and a few years later, I found myself at the Department of Computer Science in Lund.
Utanför arbetet gillar jag att hacka på spelmotorer, kompilatorer och andra grejer under rubriken "learning-by-doing". Vid sidan av det tekniska har jag en stor passion för dykning & undervattensfoto (tyvärr död) och småskaligt, hederligt hembrygge. Outside of work, I enjoy tinkering with game engines, compilers, and other things under the "learning-by-doing" motto. Besides the technical, I have a great passion for diving & underwater photography (unfortunately defunct). small-scale homebrewing and tinkering with espresso.
Technical Skills
Experience
- Co-developing and performing security audit with CTO
- Leading and shipping cross-team features
- Design & implementation of a type-safe caching infrastructure using codegen
- Leading observability effort through our codebase from prototype to rollout
- Further development of existing, and design and implementation of new ~domain services~
- Implementation of our "detect and fix bugs before features" philosophy
- Design & implementation of a content-addressable audio synthesis architecture
- Blameless postmortem template
- Informal cluster operator (kubernetes, docker-compose)
- Tech: Golang, spanner, pubsub, redis, openapi,
- Other: one half of the technical interview
- Small team, significant individual responsibility, often in direct contact with clients.
- Optimized data collection processes by 10X through offline preprocessing and "smart" caching.
- Led migration of several systems to containers & Kubernetes.
- Built Expo apps for Android and iOS with React-Native.
- Designed and implemented a distributed system for both video-on-demand and livestreaming of thousands of video streams.
- Designed and implemented a system for on-premise, anonymized video processing based on EdgeTPU with an accompanying web UI in Mithril. From riced grub, to debootstrap to admin portal.
- Tech: Golang, python, javascript, bash (🙃)
- Other: interviewing & onboarding new colleagues
- Projektanställd inom Software Engineering Research Group (SERG)
- Modellering och visualisering av forskningsfrågor och resultat i webbläsaren.
- Design och implementering av backend med stöd för dynamiska taxonomier och forskningssamarbete.
- Introduktion och handledning av nya amanuenser inom projektet.
- Tech: java, neo4j (backend); js, html, css (frontend)
- Design, utveckling och projektledning av app-relaterade projekt.
- Appar för Android & iOS med delad kodbas.
- Tech: Golang, PhoneGap (js, html, css)
- Huvudansvarig för nätverksdrift och backuplösningar baserat på FreeNAS.
- Remote-work system mha Wireguard.
- Handledning av studenter inom programmeringskurser i Java.
- Introduktionskursen & fortsättningskursen.
Utbildning
- Specialisering: Software Engineering.
- Anordnat "Wargame" (Capture-the-Flag event).
- Datainriktning.
- "IT-stöd".