Youri Ackx

Louvain-la-Neuve · Belgium · youri@ackx.net

With simplicity and elegance in mind, I design efficient, ergonomic and reliable information systems.
Agile Developer. Pragmatic, to the point approach. Keep it clean and lean!

Full stack development with a preference for backend (Python, Java, Kotlin). GDPR consulting.

Main Experience

Python Developer

Shayp

Cost-efficient water monitoring technology. Python, MongoDB, React, REST-API design

Jan. 2019 - Present

Co-Founder & iOS Developer

DysNote

DysNote is an iPad application that helps children with learning disabilities through their learning process at school.

Feb. 2018 - Oct. 2018

Team Lead & Partner

Adessa

Team lead and full-stack developer (Grails, Angular, AWS) for an employee flexible income web site.

Aug. 2016 - Jan. 2018

Java Developer & Scrum Master

UCM

Java developer on a social insurance fund web application. Lead for redesign and re-architecture of a social security contributions calculation engine.

Jan. 2015 - Nov. 2015

Grails Developer

uMedia

Custom HR and CRM.

Nov. 2011 - Mar. 2013

Certifications

Certified ScrumMaster

Scrum Alliance
Jan. 2016 - Nov. 2017

Functional Programming Principles in Scala

Coursera
Apr. 2013

R Programing

Coursera
Aug. 2014

Education

Institut Paul Lambin

Bachelor in Computer Science
Business Computing - Analyst-Programmer

with honors (Grande distinction / Magna cum laude)

1997 - 2000

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bachelor in Law
1994 - 1997

Skills

Programming Languages
Tools and Frameworks
Focus
  • Back-end (Python, Java, Kotlin, Go)
  • REST API design
  • Coaching in Agile development with Scrum and Kanban
  • Lean GDPR

Languages

French

Native proficiency

English

Bilingual proficiency

Dutch

Average working proficiency

Spanish

Elementary proficiency

Talks

Retrospective on a much agile project

Journée Agile 2018
Scheduled May 2018

From Startup to Administration - 5 Agile Projects

Journée Agile 2017
Jun. 2017

Java 8 migration follow-up

UCM
Apr. 2015

Agile & Scrum - Questions pratiques

UCM
Mar. 2015

Java 7+8

UCM
Feb. 2015

Agile & Scrum - Une introduction en douceur

UCM
Jan. 2015

Scrum from the trenches

Journée Agile 2013
Jun. 2017

Lab & Blog

Most of my work is part of large projects deployed on intranets. But I also develop side projects, mostly non related to business web applications.

Checkout my Lab for some random experiments in HTML5, go-lang, python, Java FX...

I also write technical and non-technical articles on my blog.

Most of the code can be found on GitHub.