Geert Hauwaerts
Freelance IT Consultant Freelance CTO - COO at ICT Ventures BVBA
Limassol, Cyprus
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolGeert Hauwaerts is a seasoned technology executive and freelance CTO/COO with over 21 years of experience building resilient network, datacenter and cloud operations across Europe. He has led startups to exits, scaled a Belgian IaaS provider (300% revenue growth) and serves as an independent board advisor focusing on the intersection of technology, compliance and business strategy. Hands-on by nature, Geert maintains operational chops from low-level networking (BGP/IP/MPLS, DWDM) to software engineering and contributes to the widely used Irssi open-source IRC client and its script ecosystem. Comfortable in both boardrooms and terminals, he designs always-available architectures and business support systems that turn technical capabilities into commercial advantages. A musician by training who still plays piano, he brings a creative, pattern-oriented mindset—his “superpower” is regular expressions—to solving complex systems problems. Based in Limassol, Cyprus, he’s actively seeking new challenges that bridge technical delivery and strategic growth.
21 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
KSO, Music, Trumpet, Piano, KSO, Music, Trumpet, Piano at Kunsthumaniora Brusssel
Github Skills (13)
c1710
debug10
irc10
irssi10
c1110
perl10
scripting10
text-format9
text-formatting9
configuration-management8
github7
software-update7
user-interface6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
irssi/irssi
Aug 2004 - May 2021
The client of the future
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:136 commits, 23 PRs, 27 pushes in 17 years
Contributions summary:Geert primarily contributed to bug fixes within the Irssi IRC client. Their work involved modifying core files related to IRC server interactions, command processing, and user interface elements. They addressed issues such as URI fixes, configuration problems, and incorrect application flags.
irssirustirc-clientsaslirc-protocol
irssi/scripts.irssi.org
Jul 2014 - Jun 2016
Script Repository for Irssi
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 27 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Geert contributed to the Irssi script repository by adding and updating Perl scripts. Their work included implementing a new script, `credstore.pl`, for storing and verifying user fingerprints, and updating existing scripts like `isbanned.pl` and `trackbar.pl`. The user also added a script named `pangotext.pl` which enables complex color patterns in text messages, and `xdcc.pl` to run an XDCC file server from irssi.
irssi
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