Willem D'Haese
Senior Cybersecurity Platforms & Automation Engineer, Cybersecurity Solutions Architect
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolWillem D'Haese is a Senior Cybersecurity Platforms & Automation Engineer and Solutions Architect with 12 years of experience designing resilient security and observability platforms for healthcare and critical infrastructure. He specializes in architecting Elastic Stack environments, driving automation with Ansible and Python, and integrating AI-driven analytics to elevate threat detection and operational efficiency. Willem built District09’s Network and Security Operations Center from the ground up and contributes strategic guidance as a member of the Elastic Security Advisory Council, blending hands-on engineering with governance and compliance focus. Based in Ghent, he pairs infrastructure depth—from server and storage engineering to monitoring architecture—with a pragmatic drive to align technology with business resilience needs. Quietly experimental, he triangulates automation, observability, and orchestration to simplify complex security operations at scale.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool Degree, Highschool Degree at Sint-Gertrudiscollege WetterenBachelor of Applied Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Computer Science at Hogeschool Gent
English, French, Dutch, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
timeseries-database10
encrypt10
opensearch10
api-platform10
http-client10
automation10
chat10
certbot10
encoding10
influxdb10
act10
portable10
api10
json10
audit10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
willemdh/check_ms_win_network_connections
Jan 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
OutsideIT/logstash_filter_f5
Jun 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 13 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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