Summary
Tom Asselman is an IT Security Officer and SOC Engineer with 11 years of professional experience, who began his career as a software and hardware developer in 2005 and progressively specialized in incident response, malware analysis and digital forensics. He has practical consulting and hands-on tooling experience from roles at NVISO, Cyberforce and national institutions, building custom IR and OSINT tools in Python, PowerShell, C# and C. At the European External Action Service he applies that blend of development and security operations to protect complex environments and respond to advanced threats. His background in embedded systems, Java migration projects and recording engineering gives him an unusual cross-disciplinary perspective on system behavior and telemetry. Known for translating deep technical research into pragmatic detection and response tooling, he balances investigative curiosity with operational reliability. Based in Belgium, he combines practitioner-level malware analysis with SOC engineering and a track record of shipping custom security automation.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Recording Engineer, Recording Engineer at Trax Audio Recording School
Industriëel ingenieur, Informatics, Industriëel ingenieur, Informatics at Hogeschool Gent
Dutch, English, French, German