Hello, I'm Niels Meersschaert.
Details
- Professional CategoryProduct
- Location
- Years of Relevant Experience20+ years
- Seniority LevelC-Suite
- Consulting Rate (Hourly)300
Experience
Fractional CTO/CPO
FreelanceJuly 2024 - CurrentAssist clients with
• Software technology strategy
• Effective and ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI)/machine learning
• Defining product vision
• Establishing product development processes
• Management of IT operations
• Supervision of product development
• Oversight of vendor relationships
• Provide leadership and mentorship to product and engineering teams
Chief Technology Officer - Global Banking Solutions
Relevant/Notable employerMcKinsey & CompanySeptember 2020 - November 2023• Oversaw product and engineering across six solutions covering multiple
sectors in the financial services industry to advance their efforts through
enhancements and new capabilities
• Partnered with the solution leaders to ensure our products aligned with
market demands
• Mentored and guided product managers, designers, software and data
engineers
• Helped make the Banking practice the most successful in leveraging
technology to support global clients
Director of Engineering - ClienTech
Relevant/Notable employerMcKinsey & CompanyJanuary 2018 - September 2020• Led the NY innovation hub of the firm
• Grew the NY-based designers, product managers, and engineers by 5X.
• Incubated new ideas and sat on internal venture capital committees to
determine where we should invest
• Helped define the people development model for technologists in the firm
• Built assets across many practices, including Telecom, Retail, Chemicals,
and Financial Services
Interim Chief Technology Officer
Daily CloutSeptember 2017 - January 2018Provide technical strategy and lead the teams building DailyClout's
revolutionary BillCam
Tech Advisor
SkillSoniqJuly 2017 - January 2018Provide technical strategy guidance to a new startup in the recruiting industry.
Chief Technology Officer
QualiaApril 2013 - June 2017• Oversee the strategic direction of technology, research, data analytics and
product development
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• Conceived, designed, and lead the team building Intent Quality, a ground-
breaking technology for
determining a user’s intent based on a variety of signals across multiple
devices over time.
• Directed stretching the envelope of Neo4J as we built one of the largest
graph databases globally, used for
identity management across devices
• Interviewed in articles and conferences regarding our Neo4J implementation,
due to our large scale
• Architected a system to ingest and process hundreds of millions of location
signals daily, identifying the place they represent as part of our Intent Quality
Engine using MongoDB
• In 2012, migrated from co-located servers to AWS to reduce costs, utilizing
several key AWS technologies
such as SQS, S3, and DynamoDB
• In 2016, to take advantage of systems like Big Query and to enable further
cost advantages, migrated from
AWS to Google Cloud, converting from SQS to PubSub and from S3 to GCS
• Developed an internal library to simplify the use of either Google Cloud or
AWS frameworks for applications with the same internal API in Ruby
•Implemented NodeJS for our high-concurrency front-end cookie systems and
our earlier ingestion of the
Twitter firehose
• Utilized Hadoop & Spark for some of our back-end processing
• Leveraged MongoDB in a sharded cluster for our user profile DB
• Direct the roadmap for our future efforts
• Frequently involved in business development & client engagement
• Manage, recruit, and mentor team members
• Authored multiple articles on the industry
Senior Vice President - Technology
QualiaJuly 2012 - April 2013Responsible for overall technology team, strategic direction and best practices.
Focused the team on concrete goals to advance the product, resulting in
substantial scale increases.
Principal Architect
MagneticOctober 2010 - July 2012• Responsible for overall strategy and execution of our search retargeting
platform
• Evaluated and selected key enabling technologies and developed systems to
achieve high performance on low cost hardware running in a co-located data
center
• Built one of the first large scale sharded MongoDB clusters
•Revamped backend system and collaborated on the technology on which a
patent I co-invented is based
utilizing Hadoop, MongoDB, NodeJS & Ruby running on Ubuntu
• Managed, recruited, and mentored team building high-concurrency search
retargeting system
Director User Experience
MagneticJuly 2009 - October 2010• Responsible for product direction and execution of a best-of-breed web tool
for managing data campaigns based on search retargeting using Ruby on
Rails running on Ubuntu
• Designed the concept and implementation of seedwords, which became the
patented semantic engine for related terms
Industry
- Entertainment Providers
- Financial Services
- Professional Services
- Technology, Information and Media
Specific Jurisdictions That I'm Qualified In or Can Cover
United States: New York
Language(s)
- English
Your Skills
LeadershipSoftware engineeringMachine Learning/AIProduct strategyTechnical strategyBig Data
Professional Interests
innovationcreativityproblem solvingmentoringleadership
I am interested in
- Career Opportunities
- Providing Services based on my Expertise