Gerrit Geeraerts

Bridging the gap between today’s programming and tomorrow’s AI, while deeply rooted in the open-source community’s collaborative spirit.

About Me

- I first got in touch with computers when I was 7 years old, Windows 3.11 in the full 16 colors, magical! Since then, I have been passionate about technology. With a core value to leverage the abilities of computers to make our lives more productive. I have been personally inspired by this for over 30 years, working on numerous home projects. Professionally, I have about 1 decade of experience in IT. Most of it was as a system engineer, exploring and learning new systems and connecting them through coding.

But today, I see more potential in Data & Artificial Intelligence. It has the power to make a bigger difference in our productivity. This inspired me to pursue a training at BeCode as a Data Engineer.

As a person, I am a collaborative team player with a passion for continuous learning and knowledge sharing. Motivated, a creative problem-solver, leveraging critical thinking and analytical skills to find robust solutions. I am a generalist with a broad interest range.

My goal now is to grow and apply my technical expertise as a Data Engineer to build robust LLMops solutions that leverage the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence.

Experience

2024 LLM Engineer, SUMSUM (Cronos), Leuven, Belgium

• As part of my becode training I completed my 3-month internship at SUMSUM.
• RAG Demo For Customers: Building a template for quickly setting up demo’s for customers that allow them to chat with their own documents and or website.
• Project Manager Assistant: A chatbot that generates visual reports with projects data.
• Skills: Python, LLM, RAG, GPT, Git, Langchain, Langgraph, Langsmith, Ragas, Streamlit, Docker, Elasticsearch, AWS: Bedrock, S3, Opensearch, EC2

2024 Data Engineer Trainee, Becode, Ghent, Belgium

• A full time 6-month AI training with a focus on data engineering:
• Credit Card Churning: Azure ML Infrastructure with Terraform and MLflow, Predicting Customer Credit Cancels.
• Immo App: Deploying Immo Prediction model with Streamlit and FastAPI
• Immo ML: Fixing an OLTP database and making a new OLAP database from it.
• Wine Market Analysis: Fixing an OLTP database and making a new OLAP database from it.
• Skills: Python, NLP, LLM, RAG, GPT, FastAPI, Git, Agents
• Skills: Kubernetes, Selenium, Playwright, ML Ops, Scrapy, MLflow, Streamlit, Docker, SQL, Graph Databases, Sklearn, Catboost, Azure Cloud, Terraform.
• More: Check out my GitHub for more details: GitHub

2024 System Engineer, Viso Cor Mariae, Brakel, Belgium

• To bridge the time until the start of my AI course at Becode, I volunteered at Viso Cor Mariae, a school where they did not have anyone for IT. I analyzed their IT infrastructure, created a roadmap, and started implemented solutions. Together, we searched for a new IT Professional and worked together to ensure a smooth transition.
• Skills: Azure Cloud

2019-2023 System Engineer, Kasterlinden, Sint-Agatha-Berchem, Belgium

• Digitalizing Education: We provided iPads to all students and staff, managed them efficiently using barcodes and synchronization, and integrated them with existing educational platforms.
• Account management / synchronization / SSO
• Cloud Migration: Migrating from a hybrid environment to Azure cloud only environment.
• Application Self-Service: I created a tool to streamline the creation of Intune packages, enabling users to install software through a self-service portal.
• Modern Inventory Management: We developed an automated inventory system that hooked in to SQL database of lansweeper for improving asset management and oversight.
• Give Trainings: Exploring modern educational ways to teach. Motivating and training teachers to work with modern education tools like iPads.
• Network Management: Collaborating closely with our parent organization, to manage our Wi-Fi, lan, wan, firewalls.
• Skills: Python, Django, Docker, Selenium, , Apple School Manager, Azure Cloud AD, Git, LLM, Networking Powershell, Local AD, Intune, Lansweeper, SQL, HTML, CSS

2019-Nu Home projects

• LLM search assistant: A multi-agent system that emulates human browsing on a website to find an answer to a user question.
• Crypto bots: Sentiment analysis for optimal trading.
• YouTube caption search: Search within your subscribed content.
• Gmail unsubscribe finder: Easily locate and manage email subscriptions.
• Liquidity pool sniper: Detects and invests in new liquidity pools for optimal yields.
• Custom keyboard: Typewriters where invented in the 1800’s where the mechanics played a key role on how it was designed. A lot of where projected on to keyboard as we know today. But they are anything but modern. So I soldered my own modern design keyboard based on the QMK Firmware.
• Skills: Python, Django, Docker, Linux, Git, SQL, Rest API, HTML, CSS, Selenium, Scrapy, Celery, Redis, Proxmox VM, SQL, LLM, Langchain, Langgraph, Langsmith
• More: Check out my GitHub for more details: GitHub

2014-2018 System Engineer, Metro Group, Wommelgem, Belgium

• User management: Migrating from generic accounts to personal accounts, automating creation of user accounts and generating documentation.
• Exchange: Managing generic mailboxes and a self-service tool.
• Network: Managing the lan, Wi-Fi, firewalls and setting up new stores.
• Support: First and second line support.
• Skills: Firewall, Powershell, Switches, DHCP, DNS, Wlan, AD, Confluence, MS exchange,SQL, Kanban, Scrum

2011-2014 Sales Digital world, Metro Group, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium

• Creating a great customer experience, listening to the needs of the customer and translating it to the correct product.

2012 Teacher ICT, GLTT, Halle, Belgium

• I love breaking down information into small and easy to understand concepts which makes it easy to understand for students.

2009-2010 Chief employee IT, University Ghent, Belgium

• Writing a user story and developing a workflow tool for sales, laborants, customers and administration department.
• IT infrastructure management and support together with the central IT department.
• Skills: .NET, SQL, HTML, CSS, Firewall, switches, DHCP, DNS, Wlan, AD, DNS, Deployment

Other Skills

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• Languages: Mother Tongue in Dutch, very good English, very good French
• Soft Skills: Team player, eager to learn and teach, motivated, calm and thoughtful, creative, critical thinking, problem-solving, analytic.

Education

2005-2008 Professional Bachelor ICT, KaHo Sint-Lieven, Ghent, Belgium

1999-2005 Industrial Sciences, Don Bosco, Halle, Belgium

Hobbies

Hiking w/wo tent, Renovating, DIY projects, Running, Mountain biking, Dancing, Exploring new Tech.