Cédric Charlier
Group Head Of Data & Integration
Braine-le-Comte, Hainaut, Belgium
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Top SchoolCédric Charlier is a seasoned data architect and engineering leader with over 14 years in software, currently driving Elia’s transformation as Group Head of Data & Integration to make data accessible and actionable across the organization. He blends hands-on architecture—BI, Big Data, MDM, data quality and streaming—with pragmatic team and project leadership, writing BI strategies and roadmaps while coaching cross-functional teams in Agile practices. A former Microsoft Data Platform MVP and public speaker across Europe, he routinely translates high-level business challenges into logical and physical designs and operational roadmaps. His open-source contributions include extending NUnit with a SupersetOf constraint, reflecting a tester’s attention to API ergonomics and robust validation. Based in Belgium, he pairs technical depth in the Microsoft BI stack and .NET with a talent for simplifying complex data ecosystems into repeatable, business-focused solutions.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Civil engineer, Computer science & management, Civil engineer, Computer science & management at Faculté Polytechnique de Mons
French, English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
test-driven-design10
testing10
net10
nunit10
test-framework10
dotnet10
netframework10
asp-net10
csharp10
composite-key6
sql-server6
mdx6
sql6
database-design6
ssas6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
nunit/nunit
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
NUnit Framework
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Cédric's contributions center on adding a new constraint, "SupersetOf," to the NUnit framework. This involved implementing the `CollectionSupersetConstraint` class, adding corresponding tests, and integrating it into various project configurations, including .NET Framework 4.0, 2.0, 4.5, portable, .NET SL 5.0 and .NET CF. Furthermore, the user extended the API with alternative syntax options such as `Is.SupersetOf()` and `CollectionAssert.IsSupersetOf()`, and they also added tests for the new constraint in the .NET-CF project.
dotnettestingtest-frameworkc-sharpnunit-framework
Seddryck/Chrononuensis
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
Chrononuensis is a library for parsing complex time periods like year-month, year-quarter, month-week, and year-week. Effortlessly decode and validate non-standard formats, handle fiscal calendars, ordinal days, and custom cycles. Lightweight, flexible, and precise, it structures time data with ease.
Contributions:22 releases, 1 review, 55 PRs in 1 month
date-parserdate-structureparser
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