Wim Van Leuven
Data Ronin
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolWim Van Leuven is a seasoned data and platform architect with 13+ years building scalable, cloud-native analytics and big data solutions across finance, healthcare and enterprise domains. As a self-styled "Data Ronin" he blends hands-on engineering (from R/Python analytics environments to Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines) with solution and platform architecture roles at organizations like UCB, KBC and CM, while consulting via highestpoint and dataroots. He founded and led hardware-software startup BigBoards and co-organized Belgium’s BigData.be community, showing a practical entrepreneurial streak that spans product, community and applied research. Notably, he has architected secure self-service data platforms for sensitive PII/health data and designed elastic on-demand analytics environments on Azure for regulated settings. Based in Leuven, he combines theoretical computer science training with a long track record of industrialising data workflows and enabling data scientists to work productively on the most sensitive datasets.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Sciences, option theoretical computer science, Master, Computer Sciences, option theoretical computer science at KU LeuvenPost-academic, Enterprise Application Integration and Software Re-engineering, Post-academic, Enterprise Application Integration and Software Re-engineering at Ghent UniversityVSO, Latin(4), Mathematics(6), VSO, Latin(4), Mathematics(6) at Sint-Albertus College, Haasrode
English, French, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (117)
opensearch10
elasticsearch10
ansible-role10
ipython-magic10
search-engine10
kafka10
java10
scala10
apache-kafka10
restful10
ansible9
kafka-consumer9
beancount9
apache9
azure8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bigboards/bigboards-docs
Aug 2016 - Jul 2019
The BigBoards Documentation generated on docs.bigboards.io
Contributions:2 PRs, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
bigboards/bb-stack-training
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:31 commits, 9 pushes, 1 comment in 4 months
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