Folke Lemaitre

Current

VP Engineering at Netlog

Past

Director of Development at Netlog NV
Software Developer at Language & Computing
R&D Team Manager at DataCenterTechnologies

Senior Software Developer at DataCenterTechnologies
Software Developer at DataCenterTechnologies

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Education

Universiteit Gent
Atheneum Kortrijk

Connections

237 connections

Industry

Internet

Folke Lemaitre’s Summary

Folke Lemaitre’s Specialties:

Project Management, Computer Savvy, Scheduling/Planning, Technology Development, Mentoring & Coaching

Folke Lemaitre’s Experience

VP Engineering

Netlog

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

Netlog is an online community site with a focus on fun and entertainment. The website is very popular among youngsters in and outside of Europe. The average Netlog user spends about 1h a day on gaming, communicating with friends and watching photos and movies. Netlog was founded in 2003 by Lorenz Bogaert and Toon Coppens in Ghent; it counts more than 50 million members worldwide and is available in 30 languages. Every month, Netlog is visited by more than 50 million unique visitors. In 2008, Netlog was awarded the Mashable! Open Web Award for best social network site, and was named Most Promising Enterprise of the year by the Flemish government. Netlog is ranked 2nd in the TechCrunch Europe Top 100 Index.
Director of Development

Netlog NV

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

July 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 7 months)

- Day-to-day management of development & design team
- Architecture and design of complex social networking software
- Risk assessment and change assessment of ongoing projects
- Develop and manage project plans
Software Developer

Language & Computing

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2005 — 2007 (2 years )

Folke was a researcher at Language & Computing where he was mainly focused on designing information extraction solutions for the medical domain using machine learning techniques for language and knowledge modeling, backed by a large ontology.
- Project based architecture, design and development of information extraction solutions for the medical domain
- Participation in several EU funded research projects
- Development and implementation of program plans with customers
R&D Team Manager

DataCenterTechnologies

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — 2005 (1 year )

- Management of development team
- Implementation of Scrum, a software development methodology
- Translation of high level milestones to detailed project plans
- Risk assessment of identified issues
Senior Software Developer

DataCenterTechnologies

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — 2004 (less than a year)
Software Developer

DataCenterTechnologies

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2003 — 2004 (1 year )

Architecture, design and implementation of a distributed disk-based archiving solution (NetBackup PureDisk) Development of a Linux platform optimized for archival software