Koen Maes
Business Owner at KOMA
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolKoen Maes is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and Google Cloud Platform trainer with 13+ years of professional experience and a career that stretches back to systems and network security work in the mid-1990s. As founder of KOMA and a former registrar/operator of Domainnames Belgium, he blends hands-on cloud architecture, training and consultancy with deep operational experience in J2EE, middleware and enterprise integrations. He has led projects across aviation, government and finance, acting as project lead, system architect and Scrum coach while implementing migrations, SOA and high-throughput printing/processing systems. Koen’s background in mathematics and industrial computer electronics informs a pragmatic, model-driven approach to solving complex infrastructure problems. An uncommon detail: he pairs technical leadership with culinary training (sous-chef), reflecting a disciplined, process-oriented mindset applied both in kitchens and cloud operations. Based in Leuven, Belgium, he is known for insisting you can outsource thinking but not understanding—emphasizing clarity and ownership in every engagement.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial engineer in Computer Electronics Industrial engineering - electronics, Industrial engineer in Computer Electronics Industrial engineering - electronics at Groep T - Internationale Hogeschool LeuvenMaster's Degree Mathematics and Information Technology, Master's Degree Mathematics and Information Technology at KU LeuvenGoogle Cloud Platform Authorized Trainer, Google Cloud Platform Authorized Trainer at Google, London HQSous-chef Cooking, Sous-chef Cooking at CVO LeuvenL300 Technical Qualification training Google Cloud Platform, L300 Technical Qualification training Google Cloud Platform at Google, Berlin HQ
Dutch, French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (159)
material310
material-you10
react-redux-firebase10
google-cloud10
lit10
google-app-engine10
gcloud9
gwt9
lit-html9
react-redux9
google-cloud-platform9
lit-element9
terraform9
cloud-platform9
backup9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
komasoftware/gas-template-engine
Jun 2013 - Aug 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 2 months
template-enginefillstringgooglegoogle-drive
komasoftware/prezto
Nov 2020 - Nov 2023
The configuration framework for Zsh
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years
shellconfiguration-frameworkzsh-pluginzsh
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