About Adrien
I'm a senior data and software engineer specialising in real-time streaming and data platform engineering. Over the past 8+ years, I've built and scaled event-driven architectures using Kafka, Flink, Apache Iceberg, Scala, Databricks, and Kubernetes — mostly in high-volume, production-critical environments.
My recent experience is in the media sector, where I spent 6+ years at DPG Media designing the kind of infrastructure that has to work, every day, at scale. I enjoy complex technical challenges, high ownership.
I work primarily remote from Belgium through my own company . For Belgian clients, I'm happy to come on-site occasionally when it adds value.
Dutch
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
French
Conversational
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- DPG MediaSTREAMING DATA ENGINEERDIGITAL AND ITMay 2023 - Today (3 years and 2 months)Antwerp, Belgium• Replacing legacy Spark batch pipelines with event‑driven Kafka Streams applications in Scala for real‑time user profile generation from Snowplow event streams.• Developing stateful stream processors using the Kafka Streams DSL and Processor API, leveraging state stores and interactive queries for complex aggregation logic.• Building and maintaining an event‑driven identity resolution service in Scala using the Kafka Consumer/Producer API, matching co‑occurring identifiers across event streams to resolve users.• Managing infrastructure with Terraform, deploying streaming applications to AWS EKS with Argo CD and batch workloads with Airflow.
- imecDATA ENGINEERRESEARCHDecember 2022 - June 2023 (6 months)Ghent, Belgium• Data engineering on Azure, building ETL pipelines in Scala and Python.• R&D and prototyping for digital twins, implementing data contracts in Scala with Avro.
- DPG MediaDATA ENGINEERDIGITAL AND ITOctober 2020 - December 2022 (2 years and 2 months)Antwerp, Belgium• Built data platform with Kafka, Spark, Airflow, and Snowflake on AWS.• Developed batch jobs in Scala Spark and a real‑time streaming application in Flink.
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Education
- M.SC. COMPUTER SCiENCEVrije Universiteit BrusselM.SC. COMPUTER SCiENCE
- B.SC. MULTiMEDiA AND COMMUNiCATiON TECHNOLOGYErasmus University College BrusselsB.SC. MULTiMEDiA AND COMMUNiCATiON TECHNOLOGY