Personalia
My name is Sven Vermeulen, born in Bruges (Belgium) on the 5th of September in 1982. I am currently employed as an enterprise architect with responsibility on the infrastructure domain (strategy, evolution and standardization within both on premise and cloud) at KBC Group and am living happily in Mechelen, a city near Brussels (also Belgium).
I am also self-employed as side-job to be able to help out people and companies, with focus on IT service engineering and formal validation of software code.
I'm a heavy proponent of the Free Software movement. I'm an active Gentoo Linux user (a Linux meta-distribution) and have published a few books about SELinux.
Most of my hobbies are computing-related: security (both mathematical approach and conceptual), system-level programming, processes and automation development. I like to be a know-it-all, checking out how stuff works and why it sometimes doesn't ;-)
Sven Vermeulen
sven.vermeulen@siphos.be
Curriculum Vitae
Work Experience
| Year | Activity |
|---|---|
| 2020 - present | Enterprise Architect at KBC Group with responsibility on the infrastructure domain. |
| 2015 - 2019 | IT Architect at KBC Group where I am working on the design of an analytics and data discovery environment, meant to strive in a big data environment with high flexibility demands and modern technological approaches. |
| 2010 - 2015 | ICT Architect at KBC Group where I maintain the strategy on database & scheduling technologies, watch over the information system & infrastructure enterprise architectures and help in programs and projects that want to integrate one or more database technologies into their own architecture. |
| 2005 - 2009 | WebSphere System Engineer at the KBC Group where I develop and maintain a framework for automated deployment and maintenance of JEE applications on WebSphere systems and, of course, work in projects to represent the WebSphere group. |
| 2001 - 2006, 2007 - 2008, 2011 - 2018 | Active in the Gentoo project, first as a documentation translator (English - Dutch), later as author (English), project lead (documentation, public relations), council member and foundation trustee. Now active as a SELinux policy developer, SELinux userspace package maintainer and documentation developer. |
| 2000 - 2005 | Graduated from the University of Ghent as Master of Science in Engineering: Computer Science, major in Software Engineering (in Dutch 'Burgerlijk Ingenieur in de Computerwetenschappen - major Softwareontwikkeling'). My thesis was about making software tamperproof by embedding control regions, checksum algorithms and more. |
| 1992 - 2005 | Board member of the ACCB, a computerclub located in Bruges |
| 2004 | Summerjob at Philips: Search and repair faults in television sets |
| 2003 | Summerjob at K.U. Leuven: Authoring 'Programming for Realtime Systems', redesign of Orocos website |
| 2000 - 2003 | Board member of the LugWV, the Linux User Group for West-Vlaanderen (one of Belgium's 10 provinces) |
| 2000 | Summerjob at Tyco Electronics: Camera verification of electromechanical components |
| 1994 - 2000 | Graduated from the secundary high school K.A. Brugge where I attended the Science / Math (8h) courses. |
Additional Courses
| Year | Description |
|---|---|
| 2020 | SAFe for Architects |
| 2014 - 2016 | Master in Enterprise Architecture |
| 2009 | IVPV Courses on Software Engineering |
| 2008 | IVPV Courses on Networking and Security |
| 05/2008 | dynaTrace Advanced Training |
| 2005 | 'WebSphere Administration' at ABIS |
| 1998 | 'Intel PC Technical Repairs' at IVO Brugge |
| 1996 - 1997 | 'Programming in Turbo Pascal' at SNT De Bogaerde |
Technical Knowledge
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Operating systems
- Linux (Administration and engineering)
- Unix (Sun Solaris 8-10, HP-UX, AIX) (Administration)
- Windows 9x and higher (Advanced use)
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Enterprise Applications
- Apache (Administration and engineering)
- OpenLDAP (Administration)
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Programming Languages
- C (Advanced)
- Java and J2EE (Advanced)
- Python (Basic)
Certifications
| Product | Description |
|---|---|
| SAFe | Scaled Agile Frameworks for Architects v5.0 |
| dynaTrace | Certified for dynaTrace Diagnostics 2.5.4 |
Publications
| Date | Publication |
|---|---|
| December 2020 | SELinux System Administration, 3rd Edition |
| December 2016 | SELinux System Administration, 2nd Edition |
| September 2014 | SELinux Cookbook |
| September 2013 | SELinux System Administration (Amazon link) |