Education
UCLL, Leuven - Prof. Bach. Applied Informatics
2018 -
KU Leuven, Leuven - Industrial engineering
2017 - 2018 (incomplete)
Scheppersinstituut ASO, Mechelen - Wetenschappen-Wiskunde
2011 - 2017
Employment
Open Summer of Code - Student Job - osoc.be
July 2020
Open Summer of Code is a 4-week summer programme focused on building open source projects of public utility. Commissioned by Brussels Mobility, my team and I built Cyclofix: A solution to map, present and integrate cycling infrastructure in Brussels.
i-Force, Aalst - Student Job - i-force.be
September 2019
Student job at i-Force, a fraud and digital forensics company. During my time here I created tools to aid in data recovery and processing for servers affected by a cyber attack. I also gained practical experience with Palo Alto Firewalls and Kerberos.
NERF (IMEC), Leuven - Internship - nerf.be
September 2018
Internship at NERF (Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders) FarrowLab, during which I made “Kinect Mouse Tracker”, a computer vision application to track a mouse’s position in real-time using depth information.
Projects
Please do check out more than ten of my projects in detail and with links to their respective git repositories and/or site on pfiers.net/projects.
These include Android apps in Java & Kotlin, modern and responsive websites using technologies like Typescript, Vue.js etc., and embedded systems programmed in C++.
Passion
Security
As an undergraduate student I'm specialising in systems and networks, so this one's kind of a given.
I like analysing the inner workings of systems and hardening the security of my own software projects. And I always keep the thought of how a system could be abused and how to protect it in the back of my mind, even when creating a one-off protocol or a server application After all, a little déformation professionnelle never hurt anyone.
I’d love to pursue this interest further professionally.
Cartography & GIS
This includes most of the projects I work on in my free time. OpenStreetMap, a collaborative and freely editable map, being the biggest driving factor.
I'm a member of OSM Belgium and the OSM Foundation, and I've contributed several projects. Including plugins for JOSM - a map editor -, some specialised websites, and (at the time of writing) two Android apps.