As a result of working cross-project for a while I became more and more a de facto technical lead in my team and others. This recent role update highlights this evolution and the work I am doing bringing the overall software of the Solution Delivery group within Robovision up to a better standard. I create a bridge with the engineering teams of our platform, making sure the direction is aligned to create greater value for our projects. I take on a leadership role in software design and architecture as well as development practices. I work together with other project engineers to transform POC and Pilot projects into scaleable and performant pieces of software.
After working as a project engineer for a while I got the opportunity to switch to a Software Engineer role. This role focused on cross-project developments for all projects of our main horticulture partner. During this time I worked on installation and update management for our solutions, tooling for continuous integration, designing and developing generic components as well as defining better code standards.
Started my career as a Project Engineer working on software for the horticulture industry. Our projects deliver machine learning inference and specialized post-processing to machines running in an industrial environment. These machines are operating with a large vision setup of multiple cameras and with tight deadlines on delivering a result. Our sofware is deployed on edge computing devices which communicate with our cloud platform to deliver a full end-to-end retraining cycle.
After graduating in my master computer science I decided to not immediately find a fulltime job but instead I searched for an international experience. I found the European Solidarity Corps, a programme of the European Union that allows youths to perform a volunteership within Europe. I was selected to come work in the Young Innovation HUB in Åmål, Sweden. The Hub is a place where we help young people to furfill their personal projects, such as organizing events or starting a business. During my time there I helped organize a few events, did some public speaking in the schools in the area and started my own workshop Game I/O.
Open Summer of Code is a project where several teams of students work on real life open innovation projects. This year I was assigned to the Best@ project. This project was issued by the Digital Transformation department of the federal government. The aim was to develop a toolbox of useful scripts to allow the recently published dataset of addresses in Belgium to be used more easily. For this we produced Python scripts that allowed to download the zipped dataset of the addresses, extract the xml files, convert them to csv and use them in other applications such as geocoders. An overview of our work can be found here. View the project page for more info.
In the summer of 2018 I did my internship as part of my education. I chose to do an internship abroad to get more international experience and to challenge myself by putting myself in an unfamiliar environment. The internship took place at the University of Applied Sciences in Zittau, Germany. As an intern I did research into machine learning solutions for the monitoring of nuclear waste containers by analysing the vibrations of these structures. At the end of my internship I wrote a paper about my research which will be published in the ACC Journal in the Summer of 2020.
Open Summer of Code is a project where several teams of students work on real life open innovation projects. I was tasked to develop the backend of a bicycle navigation application commissioned by Brussels Mobility. The following year more funding for the project was acquired. A new team extended the application, I couldn't participate because of an internship. The current application can be found here. View the project page for more info.
Research into various neural networks to predict the state of storage containers of nuclear waste. This is done by introducing vibrations in the containers and measuring the residual frequencies. These get decomposed into frequency components which form the input of the researched models.
Research into deep autoencoders for dimensionality reduction so high-dimensional data can be visualized.
I participated in the Legal Techathon organized by Ghent Design Factory. During this hackathon I collaborated with law and tech students to implement a prototype solving a legal problem.
IAESTE is a global organization which enables students in scientific and technical studies to perform an internship abroad. I am a member of the local committee in Ghent, where I provide IT support to maintain the information and application sites.
The devteam is responsible for maintaining the association's website.
As sportpraeses I was responsible for the organisation of sports activities throughout the year. I carried this function out for two years.
I am a certified animator for youth work. In the summer vacations whenever I have free time, I work on the supervised playground of my home town.