I am a graduate in Computer Science from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). I’m passionate about engineering, people and business, with technical interests in distributed computing 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 KU Leuven
Minor in Business & Innovation
Experience
- 01/2023-08/2024
- Software Engineer (Data Storage Systems) CERN, Geneva, CH
- Software Engineer in the Storage & Data Management Group of the IT Department
- Working on CERNBox, which serves ~ 14 PB of data to researchers worldwide.
- 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.
- 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, Fire- base 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, Protocol Buffers, 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 Responsible 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
- 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, reaching place 23 out of 225 participating teams during the qualifiers. We also won this year’s edition of the Ulyssis CTF, with 100 participants
- For my master’s thesis, I worked on improving privacy and authentication for data aggregation in the Solid ecosystem, mainly using TypeScript and Macaroons
- I am an avid practicer of judo, having obtained the first Kyu grade.