Arthur Van de Velde

Hi, I'm Arthur.

I'm a Salesforce consultant in Geneva, and I'm looking for my next job.

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I don't assume I'm the smartest person in the room, but I'm one of the most reliable. Skills can be learned and experience comes with time. Ownership is harder to teach. If something has my name on it, it gets done properly, and I stay with it until it works. That's what I bring to a team.

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Arthur Van de Velde

Thônex, Geneva
Kite surfer when the bise allows

What I do

I learn how a team works, and help it work better.

I start by understanding how a team or company really works: I talk to the people involved, follow the process step by step and look at where time gets lost. Then I look for ways to improve it, and I see it through: from that research to the design and the build, and after go-live the follow-up and level 3 support, so I can see whether it really helped.

One example. At one client, support cases were handed out without looking at who was best placed to answer them. Some people ended up with questions they couldn't really handle and a growing pile, while others had room to spare.

I redesigned the assignment in Salesforce so each case goes to someone with the right skill and the least work waiting. Below is a made-up team of four, much simpler than the real one. It starts the old way. Watch Marco's queue, then switch it over.

Orders Returns Product questions
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A striped bar means the agent is working on something outside their skills, which takes about two and a half times longer.

Things I made on my own

Two products I built and run myself.

Both started as small ideas and turned into real things people use. I built them with Claude Code as a daily coding partner, which is also how I work now.

Live, about 200 visitors a day

Sunset Atlas

A map of the best places in Europe to watch the sunset. For every spot it looks at the terrain, how open the horizon is and the weather forecast, and gives it a score.

Behind it is a Python pipeline that crunches satellite elevation and land cover data, a React map, and apps for iPhone and Android. The forecast refreshes itself every day.

In the news for the August 2026 eclipse: Het Nieuwsblad, HLN, GVA, Tribune de Genève, Le Nouvelliste, Diario de León and Anzeiger von Saanen.

↑ The sky at the top of this page uses the same sun maths: the real position of the sun over Geneva, right now or at any time you drag it to.

sunsetatlas.ch

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Sunset Atlas heatmap around Geneva
The sunset score around Geneva. Red is where the view is best.

Used by a Swiss university lab

Phagocytosis Analyzer

Researchers film immune cells under a microscope and count the moments when a cell swallows a bacterium. They did it by hand, frame by frame. My app does it for them and hands back an Excel file with every event.

It runs a deep learning model (Cellpose) to find the cells, tracks them through the film, and is checked against a reference set before every release. It ships as a signed Mac app with its own licence server.

avelde.ch

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    A simulation, not lab footage. Click to drop in bacteria.

    Experience

    Where I've done this so far.

    1. 2026

      Senior Salesforce Developer

      OWT (Swisscom Digital Technology), Geneva

      An integration between Salesforce and the systems of a global watchmaker, from the technical design to deployment. Also a Salesforce project for a Swiss energy provider, and demos for new clients.

    2. 2024 – 2026

      Salesforce Developer

      Techfirm

      Service Cloud for a large support organisation. The case routing above, plus a lot of automation in Apex, Flow and Lightning components, built together with the team that used it.

    3. 2022 – 2024

      Lean Business Analyst

      Scalefactory, a startup later bought by Delaware

      My favourite job so far. A small team where everyone did a bit of everything. I ran the workshops with clients, wrote the user stories, built the integrations with SAP, Xpower and HubSpot, tested with the users and supported them after go-live.

    4. 2021 – 2022

      Marine Data Engineer

      Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium

      Kept the research data flowing from instruments at sea to the scientists, and cleaned it up on the way.

    Studied

    MSc Engineering in Electronics and ICT at Ghent University, with a thesis on deep learning for image recognition. One Erasmus semester in Grenoble, and a short internship at CERN.

    Certified

    Salesforce Administrator and Salesforce Platform Developer I.

    Outside work

    Kite surfing, skiing, tennis and running. I also follow the markets and invest.

    Contact

    If your team needs someone who can talk to the business and build the thing, I'd like to hear from you.

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