Define and execute the technical roadmap of the crawler team in regards to our own technology as well as the open source collaborations. Communicate and collaborate on the technical efforts with the wider engineering team and management. Train and mentor engineers, drive the R&D efforts and give talks, presentations and workshops.Be involved in Mentoring, Guidance and helping set the Technical Direction for the company wide engineering teams as a whole.Research, develop and maintain our in house automated browser, browser emulation and multi layered proxy technology. Leading our FOSS efforts.

Define and execute the technical roadmap of the crawler team in regards to our own technology as well as the open source collaborations. Communicate and collaborate on the technical efforts with the wider engineering team and management. Train and mentor engineers, drive the R&D efforts and give talks, presentations and workshops.Research, develop and maintain our in house automated browser, browser emulation and multi layered proxy technology.

Drive the technical roadmap of the Integrations team. In this role I also Research and develop new methodologies and technologies in function of data extraction. Constant self-education in terms of networking and security is a requirement to keep myself and my team on the edge. Finally it's also about mentoring my fellow team mates, ensuring the quality of our codebases and contributing to open source technology.At occasions it also involves giving talks on several technical topics in front of technical audiences.

Solution architect, driving the the technical solution design within the Integrations & Support Team. As part of this role I take also the role of a technical coach in which I train all team members and help the team grow to their full potential. Within the Integrations & Support team I am responsible for our technology and frameworks. Where dreams are turned into designs, through careful analysis and creative research, and developed in a disciplined fashion into production-ready code and products.The responsibilities that I had as a crawler engineer will continue to be part of my task package as well.

Maintain existing and provide new data sources. Research and develop network and other internet stack technology. Review work of peers and mentor them in a pragmatic fashion. Maintain and develop all the different facets of the crawler infrastructure. Document new as well as existing processes and projects. Analyse the data warehouse in function of other tasks and teams. Configure and keep our crawler GCloud infrastructure healthy.

Design and Develop Free and Open Source Software, from the ground up. https://www.plabayo.tech

Author of the self published book “Rust Programming Language Learning Guide” with ISBN13 “9798862715767”.Available as a gratis FOSS web book at http://rust-lang.guide/. It’s also available for free for kindle unlimited subscribers via the kindle unlimited platforms and available for purchase in kindle and paperback format on most amazon country websites.Link for the book on the Amazon US store: https://amazon.com/dp/B0CK5DY41H

Public Speaker about Rust, FOSS and Data Extraction (Web Scraping). Available on invitation, next to the conferences I apply to myself. You can also contract me for private talks, consultancy and workshops on-demand.

Design and Develop Free and Open Source Software, from the ground up.https://www.plabayo.techLibraries, Frameworks, Tools, Applications and Games are the product, not the user. Privacy and transparency is at core of our mission. The "Free" in "Free and Open Source Software" (FOSS) is about freedom and helps maintain the civil liberal rights. It does not mean that all our products are gratis.Available as a consultant as well in a freelance capacity on the side. We deliver consultancy services in the full development cycle, mentoring, workshops, education and auditing. Physically within Belgium or remotely anywhere in the world.

Contribute to several of the Open Source projects of https://protocol.ai/,helping to build the next generation of the internet. Working on "web3" technologies behind IPFS, such as LibP2P, testground, WebRTC, including contributions to projects like chromium in function of the first. Using computer languages such as Rust, Golang, C++, C, Typescript and Javascript.Contracted by Little Bear Labs, but assignments for Protocol Labs.

Contribute & help improve opensource Technology, hosted on GitHub.See my profile at https://github.com/glendc for more information about my opensource activities.

My work involves mostly Rivine, the technology behind blockchains such as the ThreeFold Chain (see https://threefoldtoken.com), as well as Zero-OS v2 (our operating system), automation and education. Work ranges from planning milestones, defining, designing and developing features, R&D with the aim to integrate new projects and/or features into our project family and help leading a small team of Engineers, as well as educating engineers when possible. Despite all this, development is still the core chunk of my tasks.

Research & Develop OSS used by or directly developed by GIG Technology.

Define the vision and design of a new kind of reservation system. Define and develop the MVP for the cloud service (API). From design to development, I did everything including the backend, infrastructure management and mobile app. Working very closely with the non-technical founders of the company to bring their vision to life.

After working for 3 years in an office, both in Belgium and UK, I decided to try a more nomadic life in South America. At that point I already was working for 2 years for Exient, based in the UK. We were both happy to follow this new direction through and thus I became a remote freelancer.To fit this purpose I was refocused on Backend services instead and became in charge of developing cloud services for Exient's games using Golang, Docker, k8s, NodeJS and other relevant technology. On top of that it was also required to develop some client libraries, to allow our games to talk to our services, those have been written in Rust for the most part.The last 2 months, we also started to work with OpenAPI (Go-OpenAPI and Go-Swagger), after exploring options that could help and speed up the development process of our backend services.I also help out the UK based game teams with special requests, related to any technology they might need, as support for (the development of) the Exient games.

I was originally hired as a game developer, working on the video game code as well as the internal game engine, all in C/C++. Over time I got disconnected from the day to day game development, and was refocused on R&D and internal tools.I worked on several games, written in C++ and C#. All games were mobile and F2P. The company also has an internal game engine, called XGS. I helped maintain the engine, fix bugs and add features such as a better audio system. I also helped out with automation and internal tooling.

Remote hourly consultant as a C++ expert, assisting in the design and development of C++ projects as well as the reverse engineering of hardware controllers and C++ low level components.

Student Digital Arts and Entertainment Major Game Development at HOWEST in Belgium.

Erasmus Student at Kajaani University of Applied SciencesFocus on Game Development for Mobile and the Web.

+ Creating prototypes for several upcoming projects in a fast pace, in cooperation with their respective Game Designers. + Study Case : In House Cross platform C++ Game Engine + Tools + Implement new features in the Game Engine