Yves Van Goethem's Resume

Skills

Team management: focusing on autonomy, collaboration, "ask-anything" culture.
Technical leadership: Taking into account long-term business opportunities and immediate needs.
Application development: Conception, development, testing and optimisation of software, including but not limited to web apps, mobile apps and SaaS applications.

Software development, software "-ilities", application testing, system thinking, data modeling.
Developer experience, process efficieny, software delivery.
Strong understanding of design, user experience, and usability.
Internationalisation, including US, UK, South America, France, Germany, Brazil, and Poland.
White-label applications, design tokens, design systems & component libraries
Semantic & accessible HTML. Modern CSS & JavaScript.

Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin, Java, Makefile, YAML,…
Frameworks & Libraries: React, SpringBoot, NodeJS, React Native, HeadlessUI, MUI, StoryBook, BackboneJS,…
Cloud Computing: AWS, GCloud, Firebase,…
Operations: GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitOps/ArgoCD, IaC (Terraform),…
Storage: Relational DBs (Postgres, Maria/MySQL), NoSQL (DynamoDB, Redis)

ToolTime GmbH, Berlin, Germany Sep 2019 - May 2024

Engineering Lead 2021 - 2024

Led two teams: one team fostered collaboration between users, the second team transformed the application into a white-label product.
Encouraged team autonomy by adopting efficient methods and continuous improvement practices (agility, lean methodologies, etc…).
Reviewed technical architectures with "software -ilities" in mind to enhance system resilience and scalability, ensuring alignment with long-term business opportunities and immediate needs.
Hired full-stack, back-end & front-end engineers, expanded the product-engineering team fourfold by prioritizing individuals with the right mindset over specific skills.
Supported the professional growth of people, with a focus on competency, and successfully recommended people for promotions into leadership positions.

Technical Lead 2020 - 2021

Responsible for software delivery, developer experience, technical alignment and cross-team agreements to foster developers' competency, increase product value and reach business goals.

Senior Software Engineer

Enhanced maintainability of React/TypeScript WebApps by introducing tools and providing mentorship on software principles, design patterns, software languages, and best practices. It resulted in more robust feature development and shorter delivery times from all team members.
Improved CI pipelines, cutting processing time from 45 to 5 minutes enabling faster feature releases, and improving developer experience.

SoundCloud Ltd, Berlin, Germany Jan 2011 - Sep 2017

Front-End Engineer, Creators 2017

Contributed to the Android & iOS Creator App "SoundCloud Pulse", published from a single JS React-Native codebase.

Internationalisation Engineer 2015 - 2017

Successfully internationalised SoundCloud in 7 languages.
Lead consensus for internationalisation through all SoundCloud's user-facing products.
Build internationalisation into countineous delivery, rewrote all Web products to allow for localisation, developed Node APIs and CLI tools to help engineers and translators integrate software with our external TMS provider.

Front-End Engineer, Growth 2014 - 2015

Implementation of growth strategies on SoundCloud's Web platforms and third-party partners, inter alia, Server Side Rendering for SEO, tracking, A/B testing, and custom apps for IMs such as Kik.

Front-End Engineer, Web 2011 - 2014

Lead the development of SoundCloud's mobile website to be visually closer to Native Apps, ready for internationalisation, performing faster, and serve as an upsell to Native Apps.
Lead and developed a public initiative "AreWePlayingYet?" to harmonize HTML5 Audio implementations across browsers.
Contributed to soundcloud.com new Single Page App in Backbone.js, its accessibility, CSS styleguide, and modulability of JS code to share with our embeddable player and mobile website.
Contributed to soundcloud's new HTML5 embeddable player to work across all major browsers, focusing on performance, mobile, and various compatibility issues.
Maintained and added features to the existing RoR soundcloud.com website.

Publicis, Paris, France

Front-End Developer Sep 2008 - Aug 2010

Lead the front-end development, mobile websites, and internationalisation of clients such as Capgemini, Festival de Cannes, and iDTGV.
Trained the team on various topics: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Accessibility, Web Performance, and build a JS library to expedite development of common tasks.

Digitas, Paris, France

Front-End Developer Jun 2007 - Sep 2008

Delivered websites for clients including EDF, La Poste, Longchamp, Metaxa, and Bouygues-Construction.
My main focus was XHTML/CSS, JavaScript (ExtJS, jQuery), and browser quirks, particularly Internet Explorer. As-well as producing accessible and semantic code.

Etoody, Brussels, Belgium

Co-founder, Engineer Jun 2006 - Jun 2007

Build one of the very first SPA (Ajax) to date. Its mission was to allow collaborative learning between students on a social platform. We build tools to edit text, share tests, upload documents, etc. Similar to what Google Drive and Google Docs allow today.

tyro nomads: My year long bicycle trip from Germany to Australia, and other adventures. May 2017 - Present

Paris-Web Conferences: Speaker relations, project management, social media, web development. 2009 - 2013

Songbird, POTI Inc: Add-ons developer (XUL/JS), french localisation. 2008 - 2010

Firefox, Mozilla: Quality Assurance Tester (Litmus), french localisation. 2007 - 2009

Cycling, running, strength training, music, sci-fi, comics.