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Technical direction and delivery

I combine technical leadership with hands-on development. My work spans architecture, security, platform strategy and cost, and I stay close to delivery so the decisions remain practical.

  1. Mar 2025 - present · Freelance

    DevOps Chapter Lead - VRT

    VRT's DevOps specialists work across several digital product teams. I lead the chapter that connects them: setting shared priorities with VRT leadership, reviewing cross-team concerns and turning recurring problems into platform-level work.

    • Set the chapter roadmap with VRT leadership, aligned with wider organisational priorities
    • Evaluate shared approaches to security, tooling and engineering practices
    • Bring recurring issues to the teams that can solve them once for everyone
    • Strategy & roadmaps
    • Platform engineering
    • Security
    • Developer experience
    • Organisational alignment
    • OKR & cross-team goals

  2. Apr 2022 - present · Freelance

    Web Lead - VRT NWS

    As Web Lead, I share responsibility for the technical direction of vrtnws.be. Together with the app, the service reaches around one million Flemish people each day. My scope covers platform architecture, security, SEO, accessibility, infrastructure and cost.

    • Set the direction of the Next.js platform and its architecture
    • Move existing news products to the platform in controlled stages
    • Prepare the infrastructure for traffic peaks while keeping cost visible
    • Strengthen DDoS protection with a WAF and AWS Shield
    • Make SEO and accessibility part of the platform from the outset
    • Agile
    • Technical leadership
    • Next.js
    • Architecture
    • SEO
    • AWS Shield
    • AWS Loadbalancing & ECS
    • AWS Cloudfront
    • Infrastructure & cost
    • Accessibility (EAA)
    • Performance & Web vitals

  3. Jul 2026 - present · Self-employed

    Founder - Choufri

    Antwerp, Belgium

    Choufri is my independent practice for technical leadership and bespoke software. I work directly with teams and business owners, from defining the problem and choosing an approach through architecture and delivery.

    • Technical leadership for teams that need both direction and hands-on delivery
    • Bespoke software from initial scope to a working, maintainable product

    • Dec 2020 - Apr 2022 · Consultant

      Software Developer - Group Joos

      Developed and maintained JOSSH, the workflow platform used to coordinate printing, personalisation, finishing and processing across a complex production environment.

      • .NET
      • Workflow software
      • DevOps

    • Jul 2020 - Jun 2026 · Full-time

      IT Consultant - Axxes IT Consultancy

      Antwerp, Belgium

      Delivered React and Next.js products for client teams and Axxes's internal platforms. The work included translating design standards into reusable components and contributing to the UI Kit, CV platform and mobile app.

      • React
      • React Native
      • Next.js
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