I'm a cloud and AI-focused solution engineer based in Brussels, Belgium.

Currently, I work at Microsoft on the AI Apps team. Before joining Microsoft, I was at Agilytic, where I contributed to developing a document recommendation engine for the EU Commission and an e-mail enrichment tool for an international enterprise networking company.

My technical journey began at around 13, when I wrote my first lines of C. I quickly transitioned to web development, working with HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript, and even created bots for Discord. I also developed a knowledge retrieval system in C based on keyword similarity—those were the days before generative AI!

I pursued a bachelor's degree in Data Science & AI at Maastricht University, where I specialized in AI. My research thesis focused on a novel architecture for action recognition and classification in videos using temporal segment networks augmented with a third stream (body pose).

After graduating, I wanted to delve deeper into computer science, so I pursued a master's degree in engineering at KU Leuven, Belgium. Microsoft hired me after a successful internship, leading me to drop out. However, I'm still committed to finishing my degree part-time, taking one class at a time.

I'm passionate about productivity and self-growth, always seeking new ways to enhance my productivity through technology—no wonder I joined Microsoft!

• Continuous Learning: learning is an endless journey that fuels my daily energy.
• Pragmatism: 99% of the time, simplicity beats complexity

  "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler" — Albert Einstein

  "Make it work, make it right, make it fast" — Kent Beck

• Building cool stuff: build the things I'd use, and use the things I build.

• 🏄‍♂️ Kitesurfing
• 📸 Film photography
• 🏃‍♂️ Running
• 🛠️ Building cool stuff
• 🧠 Learning
• 📚 Reading
• ✈️ Traveling
• 🎉 Partying, socialising, the usual stuff really...
• 💪 Working out

Some books I like and recommend!

• Distributed Systems by Maarten van Steen
• Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
• The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
• Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
• Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

I'm frequently asked about the tools and technologies I use, so here are some lists!

My preferred tech:

• Node.js - JavaScript Runtime
• Cosmos DB - NoSQL & SQL Databases
• Azure - Cloud Platform
• LangChain & LangGraph - Generative AI SDK
• Python - For all things AI and data science
• JavaScript - For all things web

Tools:

• VS Code - Code Editor
• GitHub - Version Control & Project Management
• GitHub Copilot - AI Pair Programmer
• Todoist - Todo / Management
• Edge - Web Browser
• Figma - Interface Design
• Apple Music - Music Streaming
• tldraw - Whiteboard
• Microsoft Copilot - AI-powered assistant