Summary
Joeri Sebrechts is a software architect with 13 years of experience blending hands-on engineering and strategic technical design, currently shaping architecture at Sirus nv after leading platform initiatives for Digipolis Antwerpen. He moves fluidly between business-level strategy and line-by-line code, having designed large web and mobile platforms such as the My Antwerp app and a hybrid Azure + SaaS enterprise landscape built with security- and privacy-by-design. Experienced in data platforms as well, he architected IoT and Hadoop-based solutions incorporating Spark, Kafka and real-time APIs, and has a history of retraining teams to adopt new technologies. A natural teacher and public speaker, he regularly runs bootcamps and authors organizational standards to translate legal requirements like NIS-2 into practical architecture. Pragmatic about open source and commercial trade-offs, he starts every project by asking why and focuses on delivering mission-aligned, maintainable solutions. Based in Blankenberge, Belgium, he combines a fondness for the web with a willingness to step outside his comfort zone to solve real-world problems.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at Universiteit Antwerpen