Benny Jacobs
Head Of Factory Operations
Antwerp Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolBenny Jacobs is a seasoned operations leader with over 25 years at SESVANDERHAVE, evolving from Operations Director to Head of Factory Operations and overseeing international processes and technology. Trained as an industrial electromechanical engineer with business studies, he combines deep technical know-how with operational strategy to optimize factory performance. Known jokingly on GitHub as a "Computer Whisperer," he brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented mindset to digitization and process automation efforts. His hands-on background from engineering and planning roles gives him a rare end-to-end perspective—from shop floor mechanics to global operational design. Based in the Antwerp metropolitan area, he consistently translates complex operational challenges into scalable, technology-enabled solutions. Colleagues describe him as a steady executor who pairs long-term institutional knowledge with a curiosity for technical improvements.
14 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Industrieel Ingenieur, Electromechanica, Industrieel Ingenieur, Electromechanica at Industrieel Ingenieurnvt, nvt, nvt, nvt at Bedrijfskunde
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Github Skills (69)
exchange-web-services10
python10
api-client10
apng10
webp10
webscraper10
api10
animated-webp10
yahoo-finance-api10
finance10
discord10
converter10
yahoo-finance10
png10
discord-bot10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Benny-/Yahoo-ticker-symbol-downloader
Sep 2012 - Dec 2018
A web scraper for ticker symbols from yahoo finance
Contributions:2 releases, 101 commits, 8 PRs in 6 years 3 months
webscraperyahoo-financepythonyahoo-finance-apiexchange-web-services
Benny-/DoubleDraw
Jun 2013 - Dec 2014
Contributions:99 commits in 1 year 6 months
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