Helain Schoonjans
Cloud-Native & AI Software Architect - Digital Champion
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolHelain Schoonjans is a Cloud-Native and AI software architect and fractional CTO with 11 years of experience helping organisations break technical ceilings through pragmatic, hands-on leadership. Based in Brussels, she builds production-ready GenAI and cloud-native systems (notably on AWS Bedrock) while pairing strategic roadmaps with direct engineering delivery. She founded ITwin to advise on AI-ready architectures, cloud modernization and technical advisory, and serves as a Devoteam Digital Champion shaping GenAI presales, R&D tooling and developer experience. Comfortable from C4 diagrams to CI/CD pipelines and agentic RAG architectures, she turns technical debt into scalable advantage and mentors engineering culture along the way. A former staff engineer and multi-tenant systems lead, she combines academic grounding in computational intelligence with practical experience integrating search, messaging and DevOps at scale.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Introduction to machine learning with Python, Intelligence artificielle, Introduction to machine learning with Python, Intelligence artificielle at Haute Ecole 'Léonard de Vinci', BruxellesAdvanced Architecting on AWS, Ingénierie informatique, Advanced Architecting on AWS, Ingénierie informatique at Global KnowledgeTeam Development with Azure DevOps, Technologies de l''information, Team Development with Azure DevOps, Technologies de l''information at U2UCollège Saint-MichelMaster's degree, Computer science, Master's degree, Computer science at Université libre de BruxellesConception Responsable de Services Numériques : Design UX et Développement, Technologies de l''information, Conception Responsable de Services Numériques : Design UX et Développement, Technologies de l''information at Belgian Institute for Sustainable ITCertificat de Secouriste, Certificat de Secouriste at Croix-rouge de Belgique
English, French, Dutch
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Github Skills (64)
grails-plugin9
elasticsearch9
webservice8
openjdk7
adobe-experience-manager7
aem7
mongodb6
soap-client6
rabbitmq6
logstash6
elasticsearchquery6
jsf6
jdbc6
python6
micronaut6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HelainSchoonjans/mininations-client
Mar 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:60 commits, 5 PRs, 55 pushes in 2 years 6 months
HelainSchoonjans/myfractals
Apr 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
mandelbrotmandelbrot-fractalfractal
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