Profile

Technical Lead with 6+ years in data, cloud and ML engineering, now setting the technical direction for the central data & information platform at Fluvius — the distribution grid operator behind Flanders' energy transition. I design the governance, data contracts and semantic foundations that let decentralized domain teams ship data products safely at scale, and I am actively shaping how autonomous agents and LLMs fit into that architecture. Promoted three times in four years, from hands-on cloud data engineer to the architect and lead of the platform's enablement team.

6+ yrs
Data · Cloud · AI engineering
3 step-ups
Engineer → Architect → Lead in 4 yrs
Energy
Grid data for 300 municipalities
MSc AI
Ghent University, Civil Eng. — CS

Experience

Fluvius Flanders' electricity & gas distribution grid operator · Melle, BE · Hybrid · 4 yrs 1 mo

Technical LeadPresent

Jan 2025 – Now

Data & Information Platform — "Atlas" enablement team

  • Set the technical strategy for the central enablement team, translating business requirements into executable blueprints and focusing on high-level orchestration over operational coding.
  • Act as the bridge between internal development squads and cross-functional domain teams, aligning technical efforts and unblocking delivery across the organisation.
  • Drive the AI agenda — evaluating LLMs, agentic patterns and MCP servers to future-proof the platform, while defining the data contracts, semantics and governance an "agentic mesh" requires.
  • Grew the team, championing and recruiting for a dedicated DataOps Engineer role on the Azure data platform.

Focus: Data mesh · Data contracts · Governance · Agentic AI · Platform enablement

Technical Solution Architect

Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
  • Owned the high-level architecture of the Fluvius Cloud Data & Information Platform, laying the groundwork for decentralized domain teams to build on.
  • Took full responsibility for platform scalability, security and performance through a critical phase of cloud adoption.
  • Aligned BI, advanced analytics and reporting initiatives so architectural decisions served long-term enterprise goals.

Focus: Azure · Enterprise architecture · Scalability & security · SWOT analysis

Cloud Data Engineering Expert

Aug 2022 – Jan 2024
  • Served as central technical authority and SPOC for the BI team, leading integration and optimization of the Azure cloud data platform.
  • Coordinated development teams, keeping hands-on engineering aligned with cloud architecture and organisational strategy.
  • Partnered with Product Owners and IT Architects to design and scale a future-proof cloud ecosystem.

Focus: Azure · Data engineering · BI · Cloud management

Skyline Communications DataMiner — network & media operations software · Izegem, BE · 2 yrs

MLOps Engineer

Sep 2020 – Aug 2022
  • Worked full-stack as MLOps and Data Engineer, moving from an agile process-minded workflow to a product-focused approach.
  • Co-created platforms and pipelines integrating on-premise data into cloud environments, enabling deployment of advanced machine learning models.
  • Delivered backend and frontend enhancements to the DataMiner application, optimizing cloud-based analytics.

Focus: MLOps · Machine learning · Data integration · Cloud pipelines

Cédric Ponseele Technical Lead — Data & Information Platform
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Selected Projects

  • PortfolioBuilderPersonal · Active
    An agentic framework for constructing and optimizing investment portfolios — LLM-driven decision making over rigorous data analysis, delivering architecture-led asset allocation. Deployed as a Databricks App, with a companion Android client.
  • Master's DissertationGhent University
    Predicting future share prices and composing customer investment portfolios using machine learning and AI.
  • Big Data Science
    An online platform that scraped tweets throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to visualize the correlation between social sentiment and stock prices at the height of the crisis.
  • Bachelor's DissertationGhent University
    A platform ingesting judgements of the Belgian Court of Cassation and lower courts to surface correlations between them, built on an InterSystems® Caché database.
  • Design Project
    Scrum-based team building an application for drones to locate charging stations in a room — including simulation, QA and testing in a company-like delivery setting.
  • Engineering Projects
    Built and programmed an autonomous robot that solves a varying maze; and a framework driving a physical xylophone over the TCP/IP protocol stack.

Education

2017 – 2020

MSc Civil Engineering — Computer Science

Ghent University

Major in Artificial Intelligence · Minor in Operational Management

2014 – 2018

BSc Civil Engineering

Ghent University

2008 – 2014

Secondary Education — Latin & Mathematics (ASO)

Sint-Jan-Berchmans, Avelgem

Community & Thought Leadership

  • 2026Data Mesh Live, Antwerp — attended and published a widely-read analysis on the "Agentic Mesh": how autonomous agents shift data engineering from pipeline code to orchestration, and why governance, contracts and cost discipline become the core of the job.
  • 2024ByteBusters Databricks Customer Group — represented Fluvius in a peer community on real-time data strategies and Generative AI for the energy sector.
  • OngoingHiring & team building — actively advocate for and recruit engineers into the Fluvius Azure data platform team.

Leadership & Extra-Curricular

  • 2013 – NowOrganizer, Backpacking & Hiking Tours — Brakke Ponsie Tours
  • 2019 – 2020Board Member & Cantor, FaculteitenKonvent Gent — umbrella board for all faculty clubs at Ghent University; drafted and enforced university-wide student-initiation policy, and co-hosted large-scale events including the renowned Beiaardcantus.
  • 2018 – 2019Pub & Marketing Manager, VTK Gent — co-managed one of the highest-grossing student venues on Ghent's Overpoort: end-to-end daily operations, inventory, financial reconciliation, plus all marketing, design and event concepts.
  • 2016 – 2017Board Member, Moeder Lies — student organization of the Faculty of Economics; bridged faculties to drive cross-faculty engagement.
  • 2012 – 2020Youth Leader (Animator), Kazou Zuid-West-Vlaanderen — led and supervised children's holiday camps.

Interests

Backpacking & hiking (self-organized tours since 2013) · Special beers · History · Travel · Hardware & games · Side projects at the intersection of AI and financial markets