Martin Filliau

With over 10 years of experience in software engineering, I bring a broad understanding of how to deliver business value across the entire software lifecycle — from architecture and development to testing and operations.

As a software architect, I am a strong advocate for software craftsmanship practices, and I specialize in Event-Driven architectures and Domain-Driven Design (DDD). I strive to design resilient, anti-fragile, and evolvable systems, with a strong focus on software quality and long-term sustainability.

I am also passionate about continuous improvement and lean thinking, which has led me to pursue a Green Belt certification in Lean Six Sigma.

Current Position

Senior Software Engineer @ QOMBEN

At QOMBEN, I contribute to the development of modern, scalable software solutions in the compensation and benefits (HR) space.

Certifications

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certificate

Key principles and concepts of Lean Six Sigma, leading a DMAIC project team

Featured projects

• Living Documentation
  Some tools to generate documentation from your source code, following the principles of Living Documentation introduced by Cyrille Martraire.
• Book Quotes
  Small web application made to explore the capabilities of WebAssembly, using Blazor (.NET). Generates a markdown file from an epub and XML annotations files.
• Roaster Tycoon
  Experiment with GenAI (Claude) to build a small web app (vanilla JS) to assist in the roasting coffee process.
• MSc Dissertation "Semantic Mashup to Query Localised Data"
  Written in 2011 for my MSc in Computer Science at Oxford Brookes University, mainly about Semantic Web and geospatial search.

Some thoughts

• 2025/07: Coffee roasting & IT architecture
  Some parallels between coffee roasting and IT architecture planification...
• 2025/02: Benjamin Labatut's Maniac
  Maniac is a fascinating book that navigates between reality and fiction to explore the history of major figures in science and technology.