About

Jean Mertz is a freelance software engineer with over 10 years of professional experience in software development. He has worked in various roles ranging from technical support agent to CTO. Jean is a skilled communicator and has spoken at conferences, led technical teams, and built and delivered software. He is passionate about software development and is currently diving into C to gain a deeper understanding of CPU registers, cache lines, and instruction sets. Jean's main languages of choice are Rust, Golang, Ruby, and sometimes Swift or Typescript. He has extensive knowledge of both bare-metal infrastructure and cloud-based environments, mostly AWS and Google Cloud. He has managed multiple Kubernetes clusters, is familiar with Docker, and knows his way around *nix systems. Jean is involved in maintaining his own open-source projects on GitHub and has dabbled in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. He has also done programming screencasts on YouTube and is currently working on an open-source game engine and space exploration game. Jean is an avid reader of technical and non-fictional books and maintains a reading list on Goodreads. He is currently open to interesting remote-only opportunities that fit his profile. Jean's past experiences include working as a technical helpdesk call center agent at twenty4help, a consultant for communication and new media at r2m, and a software developer at ASML. He holds a degree in Communication and Multimedia Design from Hogeschool Zuyd and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Software Engineering, English Language, Digital Communication, Marketing, and Economics from Zuyd Hogeschool | Zuyd University of Applied Sciences. Jean's tech stack includes software engineering, senior software engineering, AWS, blockchain, Kubernetes, Docker, Typescript, backend, infra, Ruby, Golang, Swift, and C. With relevant experience of 10.94 years, Jean is a highly skilled and passionate software engineer who is always eager to learn and explore new technologies.