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Sven DuytschaeverSD

Sven Duytschaever

Technical Polymath & Solution Architect | 25+ Yrs

€900/day
Oud-Heverlee, BE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Sven

I am a generalist who thrives at the intersection of high-level architecture and low-level system details. My career is defined by a "Why-First" philosophy: I believe that to build the right system, you must first become an expert in the problem it solves, whether that is HR, geography, accountancy, video delivery or national crisis management. I bridge business intent and technical execution, whether that requires writing kernel modules, leading R&D teams, or optimizing multi-million dollar cloud budgets. I don't just build tools; I solve problems by understanding the people, the budget, and the future scalability of the solution. I can use this mindset in projects, building products, building tools, in creating a vision and leading the effort. I have done every part of the chain and I have liked them all and I am willing to do any of the parts.
  • Dutch

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Oud-Heverlee (up to 50km), Halle (up to 50km)

Experience

  • National Crisis Center
    Platform Architect & Team-lead Research
    March 2023 - Today (3 years and 3 months)
    - Architect of the cloud-based solution for Crisis Management
    running on Azure
    - Team-lead Innovation & Research team working on IoT, AI, Video, ...
    - Team-lead Infrastructure team, deployment Azure Kubernetes
    - Created the full go backend framework
    - Implemented AI - GNN model to predict flooding, and an LLM to
    answer questions from crisis plans
    - Migrate the solution from PHP to Golang
    - Cut the Azure cost to a third of the cost
    Team Management software architect Microsoft Azure Kubernetes GO
  • Cisco (Synamedia since 2019)—
    Software Engineer
    February 2010 - March 2023 (13 years and 1 month)
    with a gap in 2012-2013 (through Essensium NV)
    • Designing and writing embedded software on linux for video processing in C++ on different processors - octeon, mips, powerpc, arm.
    • Responsible for the deployment of the platform.
    • Transition to generic x86_64 hardware to move to the cloud.
    • Transition to docker containers and kubernetes.
    • Deployment in Google Cloud, Amazon Cloud, Azure Cloud
    • Video processing application.
    • Network optimization, low-level socket development.
  • Atlas Copco—
    Embedded Software Engineer
    June 2013 - June 2013
    • Short term project on a realtime embedded Linux platform in C.
    • Writing software written in C to measure gas pressure

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Education

  • —Computer Science
    Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    1999
    —Computer Science

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