Description

I'm a freelance data engineer with 15+ years of experience in data platforms, cloud infrastructure and BI, primarily in financial services.

My focus is on AWS data services (Glue, Athena, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, Kinesis, S3) and data pipeline development. My extensive SAS background makes me a strong fit for SAS-to-cloud migration projects. I also bring domain knowledge in financial risk and ALM, useful for clients in banking and insurance who need someone who understands the business context behind the data.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

Dutch
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
French
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Brussel (up to 50km)

Data Fours VOF • · Freelance
Freelance Data Consultant
BANKING AND INSURANCE
July 2022 - Today (3 years and 11 months)
Brussels, Belgium
Freelance data consultant operating through Data Fours VOF. Specialised in data engineering, cloud migrations and SAS-to-cloud transformations for clients in financial services.

Projects:

AXA Insurance - Cloud migration project from Impala and Teradata to Azure Databricks and Synapse
-Migration of SAS EG projects / SAS DI Studio jobs
-Analysis of migrated data using SAS, SQL and Excel
-Conversion of SAS EG projects to ETL flows in SAS DI Studio
-Implementation of SAS Macro functions
SAS SQL Databricks Data Engineer ETL
Cloudar
Cloud & DevOps Engineer
March 2017 - July 2022 (5 years and 4 months)
Kontich, Belgium
Designed and delivered AWS cloud infrastructure and data platforms for clients across public sector, financial services and media.

Built end-to-end data platforms on AWS: S3, Redshift, Glue, Kinesis, Athena, DMS - including CDC pipelines from on-premise Oracle to cloud databases

Migrated on-premise applications to scalable, multi-account AWS environments using EC2, Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation (laC)

Developed a serverless Python API suite (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB) automating internal billing and CRM processes

Set up CI/CD pipelines using CodePipeline, Jenkins, Artifactory and GitHub/GitLab across multiple client environments

Clients included European Commission, Flemish government agencies and a financial services firm
AWS Python API DevOps Cloud Engineer
SBI Consulting
SAS BI Consultant
August 2016 - February 2017 (6 months)
Brussels, Belgium
Developed ETL flows and BI dashboards for a budget reporting system within a Belgian federal government agency, following Kimball dimensional modelling principles and SCD2.

ETL development in SAS Data Integration Studio Dashboard design in SAS Visual Analytics
SAS SQL Data visualization