Lorenz Cleymans — L-Craft · Antwerp area, Belgium

I build backends
that ship.

Senior freelance .NET developer specialized in Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes and DevOps. I strengthen backend teams at companies like Baloise and Delen Private Bank — and build my own SaaS products end-to-end.

Work with me See my products Open to freelance inquiries
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Products

SaaS products I design, build and run myself — from first commit to production.

SaaS · Wedding planning

Amare Wedding

A wedding planning platform built from the ground up. First put to the test at a real wedding — my brother's. Now reaching out to Belgian wedding planners.

  • Guest management & RSVPs
  • Digital invitations
  • Budget tracking
  • Website builder for couples
.NET React PostgreSQL Scaleway Multi-tenancy

SaaS · Sports scheduling

CoachOS

Automatic scheduling for tennis and padel coaches, co-founded with Eloy Boone. It replaces Excel files and long email chains:

  1. Coaches define a lesson series
  2. Share a registration link
  3. CoachOS generates the planning automatically
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Experience

Nov 2024 — presentAntwerp

Baloise Insurance

.NET Developer · freelance via L-Craft

Backend development for client-facing applications serving insurance brokers and end customers, in a microservices architecture on Azure. Part of the backend technical-leadership duo, helping shape architecture decisions that balance delivery speed with long-term maintainability.

  • SOAP/ESB integrations with the Baloise ESB, using Microcks for service mocking.
  • Infrastructure as code with Terraform; CI/CD via Azure DevOps YAML pipelines, from PR to production.
  • Led the KQL-to-LogQL observability migration (Application Insights → Grafana/Loki), building an internal KQL→LogQL converter and a "Deploy Monitor" bookmarklet for Azure DevOps.
  • AI innovation week: demonstrated automated Playwright test generation and an AI-based PBI refinement agent.
.NET Azure Functions Cosmos DB Terraform Docker SOAP
Jan 2024 — Nov 2024Antwerp

Delen Private Bank

.NET Developer · N-Core team

Built new features for the client booking tool and a range of internal applications, and refactored legacy functionality into a modern structure — preserving behavior while improving security and readability.

.NET SQL SignalR RabbitMQ Kubernetes MediatR
Nov 2022 — Dec 2023Antwerp

DACX.ai

.NET Developer

SaaS start-up for personalized customer experience — a spin-off of Delen Private Bank — building enriched profiles per contact by synchronizing data sources like LinkedIn and HubSpot. Built data-source integrations, enterprise features and a fail-safe connection with the payment platform — with data quality and integrity as top priorities.

.NET Azure Service Bus Multi-tenancy Kubernetes Akka.NET SignalR
Aug 2019 — Nov 2022Antwerp

Axxes

.NET Consultant

Four projects across very different domains:

EMG Belgium 2022

Built the backend of the Tour de France "Teams Radio" application from scratch: live rider–car audio split into channels, Google Speech-to-Text, multi-language translation and per-team clip creation with NDI streaming — near real-time, used during the live race.

MyCSN 2021

Smart-city data platform for Flanders: ingested REST and real-time Kafka datasets into TimescaleDB time-series storage and exposed GeoJSON-compatible APIs feeding a "SmartMap" frontend.

Philips Lighting 2020 – 2021

Backend for an industrial light-line configurator generating BOMs, with millimeter-precision collision detection and complex compatibility rules between components.

Toyota Material Handling 2019 – 2020

Sole developer on an ASP.NET Core MVC application — bug fixing, new features, and integrating a legacy VB time-registration system.

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Skills

Backend

.NET C#

Cloud & Infra

Azure Terraform Kubernetes Docker

Data & Messaging

SQL Cosmos DB RabbitMQ Azure Service Bus Kafka

Practices

CI/CD DevOps Microservices Multi-tenancy
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About

Off the clock you'll find me on a padel court, in the gym, behind a camera, or on a snowboard. I have a long scouting background — including two years leading a group of around 300 members, where I learned to lead and organize.

I also tutor students aged 12 to 21 in math, English, Dutch, .NET and SQL.

Education & Certifications

  • Bachelor, Informatica (Software Engineering) Thomas More · 2016 — 2019
  • Microsoft Exam 483: Programming in C# Microsoft · 2020
  • PSM I Scrum.org · 2021
  • Speaker Training Ursatile · 2020
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Contact

Looking for a senior .NET/Azure developer to strengthen your backend team? Or curious about Amare Wedding or CoachOS? Get in touch — I'm happy to talk.

lorenzcleymans@hotmail.com
LinkedIn +32 494 14 24 19 Antwerp area, Belgium