Jérôme Van Der Linden
Senior Specialist Solutions Architect Builder at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJérôme Van Der Linden is a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS with 13 years of experience designing cloud-native, serverless and DevOps-first systems. He blends hands-on backend and CI/CD engineering with architect-level guidance, having contributed to notable AWS sample projects that showcase event-driven serverless ecommerce patterns and bootstrap kit deployments. A pragmatic software craftsman, he focuses on automation, testing, observability (adding event-driven metrics and Lambda Powertools instrumentation) and reproducible infrastructure across accounts. Jérôme is active in the Geneva serverless community as a meetup organizer, translating community learnings into production best practices. His open-source work includes a DynamoDB feature store for FF4J and CI/CD improvements that smooth deployment at scale, showing attention to both developer experience and operational reliability. Trained in computer engineering at EPITA, he combines deep technical implementation skills with a strong drive to change how teams build software.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, Sciences, Baccalauréat, Sciences at Lycée Sainte CroixComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
French, English
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Github Skills (38)
aws-cdk10
python10
feature-toggle10
aws-lambda10
microservices-application10
feature-flags10
amazon-web-services10
cicd10
java10
aws-dynamodb10
javas10
dynamodb10
aws10
aac10
infrastructure-as-code10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/aws-bootstrap-kit-examples
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 27 commits, 6 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jérôme primarily contributes to the CI/CD pipeline configuration and deployment process within the AWS environment. Their commits involve modifying the CDK pipeline, adding manual approval steps, and incorporating steps to bootstrap accounts and deploy infrastructure. Key changes include updating the pipeline to use cdk v2, integrating with GitHub for source control, and updating the bootstrap-kit version. The user also makes code adjustments in the configuration of the landing zone and integrates account reuse strategies.
ff4j/ff4j
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021
Feature Flags for Java made easy
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jérôme primarily contributed to the implementation of a DynamoDB-based feature store for the FF4J project. Their work included developing a DynamoDB client, refactoring constructors, and incorporating properties to configure billing modes. The user also addressed a critical error, fixing a null pointer issue, and made updates to the code related to deprecation and properties. The changes involved updating the DynamoDB SDK to version 2 and removing localstack dependencies from tests.
feature-flagsjavatoggleflipping
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