Previously he was a staff software engineer on the Livefyre Platform team at Adobe, where he worked on major real-time streaming events. He was the architect of Parleys.com, a startup dedicated to streaming Java conference content on demand, and before moving to SF he worked for 10 years as consultant in Europe. Voordeckers was a 2013 JavaOne Rockstar award-winner, is a long time Devoxx steering committee member, and contributes to various open source projects.