Pieter De Schepper
VP Of Engineering at Timefold
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolPieter De Schepper is a VP of Engineering based in Ghent, Belgium, with 9 years of leadership experience building and scaling multi‑million‑user platforms such as Twoo and Ablo. He combines hands‑on technical depth across backend, APIs, mobile, security and data engineering with strategic leadership—having designed engineering roadmaps, led architectural decisions, and integrated Massive Media teams into Tinder. Pieter has managed 20–25‑engineer divisions, hiring and structuring cross‑functional teams to deliver fast, high‑quality releases under tight deadlines. He’s also an open‑source contributor (notably improving Unicode and stdin/stdout handling in Google’s Budou CJK line‑breaking tool), reflecting attention to internationalization and robustness. Practical and people‑oriented, he pairs day‑to‑day engineering involvement with long‑term planning to scale products and develop engineering talent.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Industrial Management, Master, Industrial Management at KU LeuvenMaster, Industrial Engineering, Master, Industrial Engineering at Katholieke Hogeschool 'Sint-Lieven', Gent
English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (4)
natural-language-processing10
python10
web-development-project9
web-development9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google/budou
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Budou is an automatic organizer tool for beautiful line breaking in CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Pieter contributed to the `budou` project by addressing several key issues and enhancing the project's functionality. They focused on improving usability by ensuring the correct handling of standard input and output, addressing UTF-8 encoding issues, and displaying usage instructions when no input is provided. Their work also involved refactoring code, making the project more robust by ensuring a custom separator can be used, adding a separator function docstring and updating obsolete arguments.
chinesepythonline-breakingjapanesecjk
pieterdeschepper/timefold-solver
Nov 2023 - Nov 2024
The open source AI solver. Timefold is the successor of OptaPlanner, by the OptaPlanner team. Optimize the vehicle routing problem, employee rostering, task assignment, maintenance scheduling and other planning problems
Contributions:17 pushes, 7 branches in 11 months
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