Luk Verhelst
Senior Data Engineer
Brussels Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolLuk Verhelst is a Senior Data Engineer with over a decade of experience designing resilient data platforms and pipelines for both public sector and enterprise clients from Brussels. He builds high-performance, trustworthy data stacks for AI and BI, favoring modern local architectures and pragmatic cloud integrations such as Databricks on Azure. His background spans roles from CTO and head of data to hands-on engineering, giving him a rare blend of product-minded leadership and implementation depth. Notably he has applied knowledge graphs and linked data to cultural-sector platforms and led data integrations with financial institutions, demonstrating versatility across domains. Comfortable in freelance and in-house settings, he thrives on turning messy, distributed data into auditable, production-ready systems. Collected experience in government, construction, automotive and media projects makes him adept at bridging stakeholders and technical teams to deliver measurable outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Journalism, Journalism at Karel de Grote-HogeschoolCommunication and Media Studies, Communication and Media Studies at VUB
English, FrenchProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
LukV/skagen
Nov 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
LukV/cji-dwh
Oct 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:5 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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