Experience

Technical Lead
2022-09-01 - present
Brussels Metropolitan Area
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2021-05-01 - 2022-09-30
Aaqua
Cloud Architect
2019-08-01 - 2021-05-31

I look at current trends on the IT world to see how new practices could apply to us if it help us to provide better service to our customers. We could mention DevSecOps, Kubernetes, GitOps, Service Mesh, Observability, Supply chain security (from dev to prod). I also provide guidelines on implementations of our Aws resources, Kubernetes deployments.

IT Operations Manager
2016-09-01 - 2019-08-31

The IT manager focus will be on making sure the IT infrastructure is robust and reliable, that the availability to our customers is at the highest levels. The team, spread over multiple geographies, is also responsible for the management of our internal environments and deploying new software releases in collaboration with development teams. The IT manager is responsible for leading, coordinating and structuring the IT support process (tools, documentation and calendar) and in direct control of higher escalation point of any major production issue (3rd line).

System Engineer
2015-06-01 - 2016-08-31
Haasrode
System Engineer
2013-05-01 - 2015-06-30
Liège / Bruxelles, Belgium
Intern
2012-04-01 - 2012-09-30
Louvain-la-Neuve

Working on : - Archiving solution for data with legacy value - Optimizing calculation on databases entries - Various functionnalities for the web application (Java/Jsp/JavaScript)

Service Informatique
2011-10-01 - 2012-04-30
Supinfo Bruxelles

Analyze the infrastructure and needs Conguration of Cisco's hardware (router, switch,aironet) Setup of DNS, le sharing, monitoring server

Intern
2010-11-01 - 2011-10-31
NET7 nv/sa

Transcoding TV flow for mobile internet and its monitoring solution BGP router redundancy under Linux Testing RAID under Xen Helping to implement ITIL Mailling solution in PHP

Stagiaire
2010-01-01 - 2010-05-31
Athénée Royal de Gembloux

Design and Implementation of an environment PLC (power lines communication) authenticated and filtered through a centralized system. During this internship, I have work to add the PLC technology to a large building. This building beyond the scope of PLC technology and running on three phase. The implementation of authentication and filtering was done with Squid and DansGuardian.

Student
2009-10-01 - 2009-12-31

During the "Integration Lab" My role in this work by a team of 10 people was the firewall, virtualization (VMware server), PXE, FTP server and mail server.

Education

Networking, Computer (Master of Science)
2010-01-01 - 2012-12-31
Supinfo International University

Networking, Computer (Erasmus Exchange)
2009-01-01 - 2009-12-31
Vaasan yliopisto

Computing Technology (Bachelor of Science)
2007-01-01 - 2010-12-31
IESN - Henam

Sciences appliquées (Certificat d'enseignement secondaire supérieur)
2002-01-01 - 2007-12-31
Institut Cardinal Mercier - Waterloo

Volunteering

Coach at CoderDojo Belgium
2023-11-01 - present

I coach kids (7-17 years old) during coding sessions. I help them to learn programming languages and concepts such as Micro:bit, Python, Scratch, etc. I also help them to work on their own projects and to learn how to use different tools and technologies.

Board Member at Chèvremont Attractions
2008-01-01 - present

I contribute to the animation of Chèvremont by maintaining their website and webshop for the annual party : 'La fête de la Fricassée'. I also help organizing the event.

Certificates

LPIC-1
Linux Professional Institute
AXELOS Global Best Practice
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Canvas Credentials (Badgr)

Skills

  • Development Coaching (Advanced)

  • DevOps (Expert)

  • Linux (Advanced)

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) (Expert)

  • Kubernetes (Advanced)

  • Networking (Intermediate)

  • Domain Name System (DNS) (Intermediate)

  • Containerization (Expert)

  • ITIL (Foundation)

Languages

  • English — Professional Working
  • French — Native Speaker

References

Adrien has all what's needed to be a good system engineer. He's fast, reliable and in daily systems support he's a real Swiss army knife, finding solutions for all the problems he encounters. Thanks for the time working together.

— Johan Salaets

Adrien was really doing great job, and was always bringing new solutions based on latest tools and technologies in order to successfully meet requirements. I really appreciated his inquiring mind, and his strong ability to quickly solve incidents and problems.

— Laurent Mathias

Projects

2025-10-01 - present
Personal blog (website) My personal website where I share my thoughts and projects.

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