Niels Bekkers

Software Architect at FORWARD | Integration Specialist | Digital Transformation 🚀 | Commerce Consultant 🛒

Beringen, Flemish Region, Belgium

About

🔝 Senior IT Software Architect 🔝 AI-powered building automations 🔝 Fascinated by Internet Of Things (IOT) 🔝 Drive project requirements and deliver outstanding customer satisfaction. 🎯 Experienced with: 🎯 Restful webservices | Data management | Data processing | Scrum Agile methodology | Continuous Integration | DevOps project integrations | Unit testing | NodeJS | VueJS | Jenkins | Git | Atlassian Stack (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, ..) | Third Party API integrations | Core codebase development | jQuery | Javascript | Sass | ExpressJS | Visual Studio Code | IOT | Raspberry Pi | AWS EC2 | Mocha | Chai | Slack | Gitkraken | Docker | Python | Angular | EJS | OOP | CI/CD | Clean Code/TDD | Process Manager 2 | APEX | Java

Experience

  • Owner at Digivise BV
    Jan 2026 - Present · 7 mos

  • FORWARD (Full-time · 8 yrs 5 mos)
    • Senior Software Developer
      May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

      Order Management Architecture, Implementation, Warehouse flows, Middleware architecture, Salesforce commerce cloud, Salesforce Core, …

    • Software Architect
      Aug 2024 - May 2025 · 10 mos

      Core codebase performance optimizations

    • Software Architect
      Nov 2022 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

      🚀 Design & implement new CRM architecture system 🚀 Research & optimize backend data flows 🚀 Technical Team management 🚀 Client/Third party integration kick-offs 🚀 Optimize and extend the entire digital architecture of Inno

  • Philips Lighting (Brabantine City Row)
    • Philips Hue Beta Program
      Oct 2017 - Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Develop custom HueLabs experiences for internal research purposes

    • Internship Software Engineering
      Sep 2017 - Jan 2018 · 5 mos

      During my internship I was part of the global Philips Hue product management team, responsible for enhancing the Hue Lighting experience and provide new exciting use cases to our consumers. I contributed to the vision, strategy and product roadmap by creating tools and strategies to deal with large and diverse sets of data. My assignment was to create supporting tools for the product management team that enables them to quickly review and analyse their portfolio. ✔️Data driven market analysis: Analyze market including consumer needs, customer reviews, competitor benchmarking. ✔️Dashboarding: create dashboards that help the product management team to review data from various sources in order to make well-informed decisions. ✔️Improve product performance by creating a prioritized list of improvements. ✔️Help define new user stories and support to get those stories validated with consumers . ✔️Create marketing communication and market intelligence briefings ✔️Ensure consumer satisfaction by reviewing product samples (lights, App, etc.), documentation.

  • R&D Lab at iLumen BVBA
    Feb 2017 - May 2017 · 4 mos

    ✔️Student job ✔️Programming circuit boards ✔️Upgrading production tool v1.0 (PowerShell coding) ✔️introduce and initial start of v2.0 production tool in Java