Adrien Nélis
Network Security Architect at OtterIT
Braibant, Walloon Region, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolAdrien Nélis is a Network Security Architect with 15 years of experience specializing in securing OT and multi-site hosting infrastructures for critical industries, leveraging deep expertise with Fortinet, CheckPoint and Palo Alto platforms. He designs resilient SD-WAN and multi-site layer 2/3 architectures, automates firewall management and IPAM/CMDB integrations, and has hands-on experience with industrial protocols like IEC 60870 and IEC 61850. Comfortable across cloud (Azure, Zscaler), on-prem and ruggedized SCADA environments, he combines system administration and programming skills (Python, PowerShell, automation with Ansible/Cisco NSO) to build maintainable, low-touch deployments. Adrien also brings operational rigor—writing RFPs, on-call support, and detailed runbooks—plus unusual cross-discipline experience from building VDI/IaaS for banking to real‑world resilience testing in construction R&D. Based in Belgium, he focuses on delivering secure, auditable network architectures that balance practicality with forward-looking automation.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Systems: Networking and Telecommunication, Bachelor, Computer Systems: Networking and Telecommunication at INPRESUniversity of Liege
English, French, Spanish, German, Luxembourgish
Github Skills (8)
minecraft6
xmllint6
spigot6
plugin6
bukkit5
java4
xml1
linter1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
creadri/LazyRoad
Jun 2011 - Feb 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 2 years 8 months
minecraftbukkit-pluginbukkitpluginspigot
creadri/NetworkingTips
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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