Benoit Erken
IT Coordinator For The Sector Sciences & Technologies
Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Walloon Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolBenoit Erken is an experienced IT coordinator and computer scientist with over 25 years working at the intersection of academic libraries, institutional systems and the Web, now leading an 8-person team serving the Sciences & Technologies sector at UCLouvain. He has deep practical expertise in library systems migration, institutional repositories, linked data, long-term digital preservation and web archiving, and has led multi-university integration projects and open-archive initiatives. His background includes hands-on development and systems integration (C, Perl, Oracle) for large library platforms and a stint in banking datawarehousing, giving him a rare blend of academic and enterprise data experience. Outside IT he applies the same attention to craft as a sourdough baker, running a local supply-chain project with the university farm—an indicator of his practical, systems-minded approach to problems.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Certificat d'enseignement secondaire supérieur (CESS), Certificat d'enseignement secondaire supérieur (CESS) at Institut Notre Dame de Bonne Espérance (INDBE)Master, Computer Science & Human Science, Master, Computer Science & Human Science at Université libre de BruxellesBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Institut Supérieur Economique (Mons)Boulanger-Pâtissier, Arts boulangers et pâtissiers / boulanger, Boulanger-Pâtissier, Arts boulangers et pâtissiers / boulanger at IFAPME
English, French
Github Skills (17)
cropperjs10
angular-library9
user-interface7
open-access7
freeswitch6
angular6
flask6
typescript5
telephony5
sip4
api4
python4
rest3
rest-api3
voip3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
benerken/rero-ils-ui
Dec 2019 - Jun 2023
User interface for RERO integrated library system (RERO ILS).
Contributions:25 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 7 months
ilsrerouser-interfaceintegrated-library-systemintegrated
benerken/rero-ils
Aug 2019 - Jul 2023
Integrated Library System flavour of Invenio by RERO.
Contributions:4 PRs, 113 pushes, 41 branches in 3 years 11 months
rerointegrated-library-systemintegratedflavourmodular
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