My Resume

A summary of my professional experience, education, and technical skills

Professional Experience

EMEA Senior Solution Architect, Cortex Cloud

Oct 2025 - Present
Palo Alto Networks Belgium

As an EMEA Senior Solution Architect for Cortex Cloud, I help organizations across Europe strengthen their cloud and application security.

I work closely with customers through pre-sales, post-sales, and platform adoption, guiding them on securing their application code, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes & OpenShift environments, and multi-cloud infrastructures across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud.

My mission is to simplify cloud security, accelerate adoption of Cortex Cloud, and support teams in building more secure, resilient, and scalable environments.

Cloud Solutions Architect

Sep 2021 - Oct 2025
Palo Alto Networks Belgium

Drive technical strategy and implementation of Prisma Cloud solutions across multi-cloud environments, with a strong focus on cloud-native security, compliance (e.g., AWS FSBP, CIS), and automated remediation. Lead customer engagements through workshops, Immersion Days, and Capture the Flag events to accelerate secure cloud adoption. Collaborate closely with product teams to relay field feedback and develop tailored automation scripts that enable policy management, compliance reporting, and proactive alerting. Help customers integrate security seamlessly into their DevOps pipelines and cloud operations.

Public Cloud Enterprise Architect

Nov 2019 - Aug 2021
NRB Liege

Design and develop secure, highly scalable software solutions across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
Create and maintain cloud reference architectures to support best practices in security and performance.
Assess emerging technologies (e.g., Kubernetes), review existing designs, and deliver strategic recommendations to drive innovation and efficiency.

Team Lead – Network and Network Security

Jan 2017 - Oct 2019
NRB Liege

Led a team of 20 engineers in managing and transforming core network infrastructure, including the full replacement of core routing and switching systems. Oversaw network architecture for new datacenter builds, ensuring scalability, resilience, and security. Drove integration of key technologies such as Palo Alto Networks firewalls, BackBox automation, Splunk monitoring, and F5 load balancing. Delivered critical infrastructure upgrades while aligning with security best practices and business continuity requirements.

Network Security Designer

Jan 2009 - Dec 2016
Engie Brussels

Managed complex network and security projects involving a wide range of technologies, including Check Point, Juniper, F5, BlueCoat, and Cisco.
Led the design and deployment of a large-scale internet access infrastructure serving over 50,000 users, incorporating Check Point virtual systems, Juniper firewalls and SSL VPN, and F5 BIG-IP load balancers.
Successfully implemented an Outlook Anywhere infrastructure using Windows Server 2012 with Application Request Routing (ARR) and client certificate authentication behind F5, overcoming significant technical challenges in secure access and load balancing.

Network Security Engineer

Sep 2007 - Dec 2008
BNP Paribas Fortis Bank Brussels

Provided L3 support and managed critical network components including proxies, firewalls, and load balancers.
Led the successful migration of Fortis Bank Frankfurt to a completely new network and security infrastructure.
Developed automation scripts in Perl and Expect to streamline command execution across diverse network devices, improving operational efficiency and consistency.

Education

Master, IT

Sep 2006 - Sep 2007
University Liege

Only one year

Bachelor, Network orientation

Sep 2003 - Jun 2006
HEPL - Haute Ecole de la Province de Liège Liege

Great Distinction

Technical Skills

Cloud

AWS Advanced
Azure Advanced
Google Cloud Platform Intermediate

DevOps

Terraform Expert
Kubernetes Expert
OpenShift Advanced
Docker Advanced
Git Advanced
Ansible Advanced

Programming Language

PHP Advanced
Python Advanced
JavaScript Intermediate
JavaScript Advanced

Framework

Laravel Advanced

Database

MySQL Advanced

Infrastructure

Palo Alto Networks Expert