Current occupation

Solution Software Lead
Robovision
Education
Ghent University
Master in Computer Science
2017 - 2019
Ghent University
Bachelor in Computer Science
2014 - 2017
Maricolen Maldegem
Latin Mathematics
2007 - 2013
Publications
Research and Development of an Artificial Neural Network for Spectral Data
2020-06-30

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.

Visualisatie van Hoog-Dimensionale Data met Behulp van Autoencoders
2019

Research into deep autoencoders for dimensionality reduction so high-dimensional data can be visualized.

Work Experience
Robovision
Solution Sofware Lead
March 2023 - October 2023

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.

Leveraged knowledge: Gaining experience in the design of large scale software systems, clean development practices and DevOps
Robovision
Software Engineer
February 2022 - March 2023

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.

Leveraged knowledge: Gained experience in software design, continuous integration and continuous deployment
Robovision
Project Engineer
August 2020 - February 2022

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.

Leveraged knowledge: Gained experienced writing production grade code, developing multiple secondary skills in the fast-paced landscape of a scaleup
Young Innovation HUB Åmål, Sweden
European Solidarity Corps volunteer
September 2019 - March 2020

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.

Leveraged knowledge: I gained experience in marketing, project management and public speaking
Open Knowledge Belgium
Summer job Open Summer of Code 2019
July 2019 - August 2019

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.

Leveraged knowledge: All code was written in Python using pandas, datashader and bokeh
Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz, Germany
Research Intern
July 2018 - September 2018

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.

Leveraged knowledge: Implementation was done in Python using the Keras framework.
Open Knowledge Belgium
Summer job Open Summer of Code 2017
July 2017 - August 2017

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.

Leveraged knowledge: Backend was written in C# using ASP.NET, frontend used Javascript and Mapbox
Other Experience
Legal Techathon

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.

IT member IAESTE

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.

Member of devteam of student association WiNA

The devteam is responsible for maintaining the association's website.

Sportpraeses of student association WiNA

As sportpraeses I was responsible for the organisation of sports activities throughout the year. I carried this function out for two years.

Animator ’vzw speelpleinwerking Sint-Laureins’

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.

Take a look at my projects for more experience!
Skills
Python
Frameworks
  • bokeh
  • pandas
  • numpy
  • datashader
  • keras
  • sklearn
  • Jupyter
  • dimdrop
  • seaborn
  • matplotlib
Projects
Java
Frameworks
  • JavaFX
  • LWJGL
  • Jackson
Projects
Javascript
Frameworks
  • D3
  • topojson
  • Phaser
  • Webpack
  • jQuery
  • Mapbox
Projects
Rust
Frameworks
  • pest
Projects
Ruby
Frameworks
  • Jekyll
  • Rouge
Projects
C#
Frameworks
  • Itinero
  • ASP.NET
Projects
C, C++
Contact
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