Wouter Cloetens

Embedded Systems Software Architect at SoftAtHome

Brussels Area, Belgium

Current
  • Embedded Systems Software Architect at SoftAtHome
Past
  • Staff Embedded Software Architect at Essensium
  • Senior embedded developer at Mind
  • Embedded Software Developer at Newtec
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Wouter Cloetens’s Summary

User-space (application) and kernel-space (device driver) Linux and real-time OS development on ARM, Power and Intel architectures.
Expertise in TCP/IP networking, VoIP, satellite communications, DVB, Java Virtual Machines.
In previous positions, Unix (Linux, AIX), Java development with deep experience with messaging middleware (most notably MQSeries) and SQL databases (most notably DB2).

Wouter Cloetens’s Specialties:

Embedded systems architecture.


Wouter Cloetens’s Experience

  • Embedded Systems Software Architect

    SoftAtHome

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    June 2008Present (7 months)

    Architect of the residential network gateway platform.

  • Staff Embedded Software Architect

    Essensium

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Semiconductors industry)

    November 2006June 2008 (1 year 8 months)

    Essensium acquired Mind and continues its embedded consultancy activities.

  • Senior embedded developer

    Mind

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    February 2001June 2008 (7 years 5 months)

    As a consultant, besides other long-running projects already described, I also ported and enhanced an embedded CCTV security application to (Linux on embedded PC) and developed a distributed video recorder.

  • Embedded Software Developer

    Newtec

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    October 2004August 2007 (2 years 11 months)

    As a consultant, I
    - played a significant role in the development of the Satmode two-way satellite modem (uCOS-II RTOS on ARM),
    - was part of the development of the Sat3Play two-way satellite modem (Linux on PowerPC).

  • Platform Architect

    Banksys

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)

    February 2001April 2004 (3 years 3 months)

    As a consultant, I
    - ported and maintained a Java Virtual Machine on a POS terminal (Chorus RTOS on i386),
    - was the architect of a next-generation dual-core secure POS terminal (eCos and Linux on ARM).

  • Senior software developer

    IBM Greenock, UK

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

    July 1995January 2001 (5 years 7 months)

    I held various positions at IBM in the PC company support organisation, growing from a telephone support representative to the architect, developer and maintainer of a web-based problem management suite interconnected with many databases and tools on a myriad of platforms, used world-wide.
    I then joined software development.

  • Architect

    IBM Rochester, MN

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

    September 1999December 2000 (1 year 4 months)

    Architect for the IBM Electronic Services project. This was an international assignment.


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