Alex Wauters

CTO

Leuven, Flemish Region, Belgium14 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led development of AI-powered customs SaaS.
Technical lead for Uber Freight's carrier booking team.
Coached engineers while staying hands-on.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Native Development expert with strong leadership capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipBackend DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentSoftware ArchitectureCloud Native DevelopmentTechnical CoachingSoftware Development

Other Skills

JavaJavaScriptPythonGoApache KafkaReact.jsNode.jsScyllaElasticsearchVue.jsSpring BootGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Amazon Web Services (AWS)KubernetesAzure Cloud

About

Scaling Customaite.ai's AI platform, modernizing infrastructure, and growing the engineering team. Still shipping code. Previously Staff Software Engineer at Uber, as tech lead for Uber Freight's carrier booking team. I write about software development and tech leadership at scalex.dev

Experience

14 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Customaite

CTO

May 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Leuven, Flemish Region, Belgium

Leading development of an AI-powered customs declarations SaaS.
Setting technical direction while systematically reducing tech debt.
Evolving architecture to support business growth without sacrificing reliability.
Drove ISO 27001 certification.
Coaching engineers while staying hands-on (Java, JavaScript, Python).

JavaJavaScriptPythonAI DevelopmentTechnical Leadership

Freelance

Freelance Software Engineer

May 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Belgium · Hybrid

Freelance software engineer, technical architect and coach

Uber

Staff Software Engineer

Feb 2021 – May 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Technical lead of Uber Freight's Carrier Booking team - working on search, recommendations and booking experience for carriers in the web & mobile apps.

GoApache KafkaReact.jsBackend DevelopmentTechnical Leadership

Cardiogram

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2020 – Feb 2021 · 11 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Healthcare start-up, app visualizing heart rate for patients with arrhythmia
Feature development with A/B testing in React & Node.js
Set up search infrastructure (ElasticSearch), indexing 380k docs daily

Node.jsScyllaElasticsearchReact.jsFrontend DevelopmentBackend Development

Brussels airport company

Technical Lead

Apr 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Responsible for architecture, development and managing the delivery team of Digital Twin for Brussels’ Airport Operations Center.
Development in Java (Spring), JavaScript (Vue.js)

JavaVue.jsSpring BootSoftware ArchitectureBackend Development

Bpost

Technical Lead

Jun 2014 – Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Brussels Metropolitan Area

Led the development and technical operations of a peer-to-peer delivery platform with pilot program launched under 6 months (Bringr).
Project received datanews’ ICT Project of the Year 2016 award.

JavaJavaScriptKubernetesAzure CloudMongoDBTechnical Leadership+1

Ae nv/sa

Senior Technical Consultant

May 2014 – Mar 2020 · 5 yrs 10 mos

Cloud native software development as consultant in Java, JavaScript and Go
Technical Coach & training instructor for Cloud Native software development & Secure Software
Founded the AE garage: an offering to explore emerging technologies and their possible value for businesses

GoJavaJavaScriptGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud Native Development+1