Mickael Van Der Beek
Co Executive Director at Alliance Gravity Data Media
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolMickael Van Der Beek is a security-minded software leader with 11 years of experience building and protecting web platforms from Brussels, currently serving as Co-Executive Director and CTO at Alliance Gravity Data Media. He blends hands-on development and infrastructure leadership with a proven track record in application security, having discovered vulnerabilities in major projects including top Node.js CMSs, StackOverflow, Trello, Wolfram Alpha and Google Chrome-related projects. Previously he led information security and infrastructure at Wooclap and contributed full-stack and security expertise at WooRank and Sagacify, demonstrating consistent progression from developer to executive roles. Comfortable both in engineering trenches and strategic decision-making, he still contributes to open-source and stays current with emerging tech trends. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, auditable solutions that balance delivery speed with robust security controls. An interesting detail: he combines executive responsibilities with active vulnerability research, keeping his technical edge while running organizations.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Université libre de Bruxelles
French, English, German, Luxembourgish, Dutch
Github Skills (200)
web-application10
testing10
automation10
nike10
firefox10
api10
ghost10
dom10
nodejs10
mongodb10
headless-cms10
cms10
windows10
database-management10
chromium10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Woorank/structured-logging
Feb 2016 - Oct 2019
Initialises a list of serialisers used to format logger input.
Contributions:59 PRs, 81 pushes, 58 branches in 3 years 8 months
logger
Mickael-van-der-Beek/showdown
Mar 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years
ghostdo-not-useshowdown
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