I am a Software Engineer at CERN, with at Master’s in Engineering: Computer Science from KU Leuven. I’m passionate about impacting society through engineering, research and entrepreneurship. On the technical side, I am mostly interested in distributed computing, computer security and privacy-enhancing technologies.
Education
- 2020-2022
- Msc Engineering: Computer Science KU Leuven
Major in Distributed Systems, member of the Education Committee
Magna Cum Laude
- 2021-2022
- MSc Computer Engineering Budapest University of Technology
Erasmus+ Exchange
- 2016-2020
- BSc Informatics (https://kuleuven.be)
Minor in Business & Innovation
Experience
- 09/2024-Present
- Software Engineer (Data Storage Systems) CERN, Geneva, CH
- Software Engineer in the Storage & Data Management Group of the IT Department
- I mostly work on reva, which is the back-end component of CERNBox. CERNBox serves ~ 33 PB of data to researchers worldwide.
- Technologies used: Go, gRPC and MySQL.
- 01/2023-08/2024
- Software Engineer (Cloud & Security) icometrix, Leuven, BE
- Software Engineer focused on cloud and security.
- Building and deploying microservices on AWS to support ML pipelines for automatic quantification of clinically relevant brain structures in MRI and CT scans.
- Responsible for our back-end microservices, cloud environment and compliance with standards such as ISO27001.
- Technologies used: AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, ), Terraform, Kubernetes, Python (FastAPI), PostgreSQL
- Current
- Co-Founder & Developer TapToChill, Leuven, BE
- Building a social platform to easily meet up with friends
- Developing the entire back-end of the app using Dart/Flutter, Firebase and Google Cloud Platform
- Won the SST Pitch Competion, participated in the university’s KICK Incubator and presented at our local tech conference: and&
- 10/2022-12/2022
- DevSecOps Engineer (J-1 Intern) OMP, Atlanta, USA
- Developed build pipelines that make OMP’s software more resilient using Azure DevOps and Powershell
- Created reliable distributed system deployments using Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm and a number of other technologies.
- 11/2020-04/2021
- Linux Development Intern VersaSense, Leuven, BE
- Developed a custom embedded linux distribution for SMIP gateways using Yocto and OpenEmbedded
- Wrote custom bitbake recipes using systemd, docker and bash
- 06/2020-08/2020
- Software Engineering Intern VersaSense, Leuven, BE
- Wrote several microservices for VersaSense’s leading Industrial IoT Cloud using Golang
- Used technologies such as Docker, Redis, Prometheus, Protobuf, MQTT, Kubernetes, Kafka, Influxdb, …
Extracurricular
- 2018-2021
- Hackathon Co-organiser BEST Leuven
- Co-organiser of both the 2018/19 and 2020/21 edition of our beginner-oriented hackathon, welcoming over 100 participants
- Developed challenges in Python, set up an automated submission system (running on Docker on DigitalOcean)
- 2018-2020
- IT Responsible BEST Leuven
- Making sure that all IT-related infrastructure is up and running and maintaining it, including our website
- 2019-2020
- International Committee Lead Wina Leuven
- Responsible for managing a team of 5 persons
- In charge of all international activities of our student union
- Member of the core praesidium and the board of directors (RvB)
Other
- I am a certified AWS Solutions Architect
- My team and I won the 2022 Edition of the Ulyssis CTF, a university-wide CTF at KU Leuven
- My team and I got a podium place at the Digital Wallonia CTF 2023
- My team and I were finalists in WhatTheHack 2019, Belgium’s largest student hackathon. We won the banking challenge and did this by building a facial recog- nition system for wireless payments using OpenCV
- My team and I participated in the finals of the CyberSecurity Challenge Belgium
- Apart from this I like to read a lot, run, go on hikes, travel and learn new languages