Career Profile

I am a network and security engineer who loves networking, automation and Linux. I hail from a development background with a knack for Php and Python. When I'm not solving networking problems or making sure that everything is secure you can usually find me teaching evening classes or tinkering away in my lab.

Experiences

My recent experiences. You can consult my linkedin for a complete overview.

Security engineer

2022 - Present
Arvesta

- Migrating all enterprise apps away from the old IAM solution to Azure
- Auditing and improving security across the board
- Assisting teams with implementing secure solutions and consulting on internal projects
- Monitoring the infrastructure and helping to maintain the security posture. (ATP, Intune, O365 TM,...)
- Writing procedures and upgrading existing procedures to increase compliance and reduce error rates

Network and security engineer

2017 - 2022
Punch Powertrain

Expanding and managing the network. Coordinating across departments and infrastructure providers. Helped orchestrate and facilitate the Punch Powertrain Sint-Truiden production plant expansion coupled with new mergers and acquisitions in the EU region. Reducing existing technical debt.

Monitoring the infrastructure and helping to maintain the security posture. (ATP, Intune, O365 TM,...)

Cisco instructor

2016 - Present
Syntra Limburg

Cisco instructor at the Syntra Genk academy. Helping students achieve their CCNA certification.

Docent

2010 - Present
Syntra Limburg

Teaching networking and system engineering courses. Topics include but are not limited to networking, infrastructure, windows client/server, linux,...

Freelancer

2008 - Present
Epiecs

Network and system engineering. (Web) Development.

Lead Developer

2012 - 2018
Toychamp Belgium

Developing the Toychamp web shop and e commerce platform from the ground up, all related tooling and managing the server environment

Projects

Below you can find a selection of some of my open-source projects. Feel free to visit my Github profile for a glimpse of all my other projects.

PhpMiko - A php implementation of Netmiko.
Mikodo - A concurrency library built on top of Phpmiko. Comes bundled with several library providers to easily connect to existing IPAM tools or re-use existing Nornir libraries.

Skills & Proficiency

Infrastructure

Juniper & Cisco

Checkpoint

Network Security

Network Automation

Network Scripting

Javascript

Php

Python

HTML5 & CSS