Ward Segers
Cybersecurity And Data Analysis Engineer
Louvain Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolWard Segers is a Cybersecurity and Data Analysis Engineer with nine years of experience building and operating registry-scale systems at DNS Belgium, the operator of .be, .vlaanderen and .brussels. He combines DevOps pragmatism with security research—instrumenting an open-source crawler (Mercator) to analyze domain usage, detect malware and phishing, and surface insights by fusing diverse DNS datasets. His background spans both operational delivery (registry management systems and gTLD platforms) and applied research into domain abuse, giving him a rare blend of production experience and investigative analytics. Based in the Louvain area and trained in computer science at Hasselt University, he thrives on turning large-scale telemetry into actionable detection and mitigation capabilities.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Hasselt University
English, Dutch, French, German, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (176)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
editicalu/dollar
Dec 2018 - Jun 2021
Execute commands when copying the $
Contributions:3 releases, 7 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 5 months
rustcopyingcli
editicalu/nordselect
Jul 2018 - Sep 2022
Library to detect the best NordVPN server
Contributions:19 releases, 155 commits, 31 PRs in 4 years 2 months
nordvpndetectvpn
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