Jim Vekemans
Data Platform Engineer
Aarschot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolJim Vekemans is a Data Platform Engineer with 9 years of hands-on experience building high-performance data platforms, pipelines and CI/CD for analytics and AI initiatives across public and private sectors in Belgium. He has led dbt adoption and created standardized, automated deployments and secret management at VDAB, co-creating the official memsql/dbt-singlestore adapter, and has a track record of delivering pragmatic data vault and Airflow-based release frameworks. Comfortable from low-level hardware interests to production ML, Jim combines strong analytical rigor from his mathematics-heavy education with clear communication and teaching—he’s built and delivered dbt courses for engineers and stakeholders. He thrives on debugging and smoothing complex systems, prefers solving intricate problems end-to-end, and brings a blend of autonomy and collaborative experience from small senior teams to freelance projects.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Techniek - Wetenschappen, Techniek - Wetenschappen at Don Bosco College HechtelBachelor's degree Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor's degree Artificial Intelligence at Hogeschool PXL
Dutch, French, English, Ukrainian
Github Skills (44)
operation9
java9
pipeline9
python8
mssql8
singer8
snowflake8
mysql8
data-collection8
postgresql8
bigquery7
duckdb7
databases7
linux7
etl7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jimvekemans/Linux_Developer
Sep 2019 - Dec 2023
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
jimvekemans/JavaAdvancedTutorship
Sep 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 32 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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