08/2015 – present Principal Engineer Cloud Platform
Autodesk Leading the development of the cloud infrastructure supporting the online electronic design tools of Autodesk. Developed a microservice architecture supporting already more than 8 products. Migrated several apps towards the cloud. Keywords: team management, software development, micro services, cloud computing, AWS, NodeJS
01/2014 – 08/2015 Research Engineer Big Data
IBM Research Research in integrating Semantic Web technologies into the Big Data analytics infrastructure. Developed scalable, distributed Big Data architectures for several research projects. Part of the team developing the architecture of IBM's next grand challenge (the follow up of IBM's Deep Blue and Watson). Keywords: research, Big Data, Semantic Web, machine learning, cloud computing, Java
Education
2013 PhD Computer Science Semantic Web Technologies
Ghent, Belgium Ghent University Research topic: provenance information, query federation, and semantic workflow composition and distribution. 10 journal articles, 2 books, 3 book chapters, 6 Web standard documents, 29 conference papers, 2 ISWC best demo awards.
2005 MSc Electrical Engineering Micro Electronics
Leuven, Belgium KU Leuven Master thesis described a Class E invertor with automatic impedance adaptation for inductive power transfer.