Infrastructure Engineer
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IBA2024 - Present. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Currently working as an Infrastructure Engineer at IBA in Louvain-la-Neuve, responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of the company’s IT infrastructure. Operating in a production environment with on-call responsibilities (7 days per month) to ensure service reliability and incident response.
Evolved the infrastructure toward a fully Infrastructure-as-Code approach using Ansible, Terraform and Packer, improving automation, Github CICD, reproducibility, and standardization of system deployments.
Leading initiatives around platform modernization and security, including the development of a cybersecurity-oriented infrastructure stack based on Proxmox as a VMware alternative. This includes workload migration, centralized monitoring, log collection, and network segmentation using Tailscale to improve security and operational control across environments.
System Engineer & Integrator
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Thales2015 - 2017. Tubize, Belgium.
Contributed to the design, integration, and validation of mission-critical telecommunications systems at Thales Communications. Led the implementation of a fully redundant monitoring infrastructure for the Belgian national paging network, providing comprehensive observability and fault detection capabilities.
Conducted Integration, Verification, Validation, and Qualification (IVVQ) activities for software and hardware platforms deployed across a nationwide infrastructure of more than 200 servers. Worked closely with engineering and operational teams to ensure system performance, reliability, and successful production deployments within a highly demanding environment.
System Administrator / DevOps Engineer
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OVH Cloud2017 - 2020. Montréal, Canada.
Managed and maintained large-scale VPS and Public Cloud platforms running on OVHcloud’s OpenStack infrastructure across multiple regions worldwide. Contributed to the reliability and performance of production environments through infrastructure maintenance, monitoring improvements, performance optimization, troubleshooting, and incident resolution.
Participated in the deployment and launch of new VPS regions, including Sydney and Singapore, helping expand the platform’s global footprint. Worked closely with development and operations teams to investigate issues, track bugs, and improve operational processes through ticketing and change management workflows.
Supported a 24/7 global operations model through follow-the-sun collaboration, rotating evening and night shifts, and regular on-call duties to ensure service availability and rapid incident response.
System Infrastructure Engineer
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Bandwidth2020 - 2024. Brussels, Belgium.
Managed and evolved large-scale virtualization and cloud infrastructure across multiple datacenters. Led OpenStack hypervisor expansion and platform upgrades, as well as Ceph cluster upgrades and capacity extensions to support growing workloads. Designed and deployed on-demand integration environments for development and testing teams.
Implemented and operated VMware infrastructure across multiple datacenters, including hypervisor deployment and migration projects from OpenStack to VMware. Deployed and maintained Red Hat Identity Management (IdM) services across the infrastructure to strengthen authentication and identity governance.
Contributed to disaster recovery initiatives through AWS-based DR platforms and ensured compliance with SOX and ISO 27001 requirements. Participated in on-call rotations and incident triage, supporting the reliability and availability of critical production systems.
Software Engineer
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Cisco2011 - 2013. Kortrijk, Belgium.
Developed and maintained automated testing frameworks in Python for video processing applications used in telecom and cable headends. Responsible for both manual and automated testing, including unit, integration, and regression tests. Designed tools to validate video quality and encoding parameters such as codec compliance, bitrate, resolution, and stream integrity, helping ensure reliable and consistent media delivery.
