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Background

Roles and education

From the Defence to software development. Jobs and education sit on the same timeline, because they often ran in parallel.

RoleEducation
2025 →

Full stack AI developer, personal projects

github.com/warrox1993 · since Nov. 2025

Batte, Palier, ClawkWerk and StudyInc, designed and built by orchestrating Claude Code, with specifications, automated tests, reviews and continuous integration.

2026 →

Administrative officer, Debt Recovery department

CPAS of Liège · since April 2026

VBA automation (Excel, Word) of payment reminders: about 1,500 cases, letters generated automatically, every action logged.

2025

.NET developer, internship

Atypical Consulting, Waremme · Sept. to Nov. 2025

The firm's website in Blazor deployed on Azure; Material.Blazor and Tailwind UI adapters for FormCraft, an open source Blazor forms library.

2025 → 27

Bachelor's in business programming

Institut Saint-Laurent, Liège · evening classes

Java and Spring Boot, C# and .NET, Angular, databases. Graduating in June 2027.

2025

Full stack Java developer

Technofutur TIC, Gosselies · Feb. to Aug. 2025

Six months full time: Java, Spring Boot (JPA, Spring Security, JWT), Angular and application security.

2022 → 23

Security officer with clearance

Protection Unit · European Commission, Brussels

Access control and building security, full time, alongside my second year of law (passed).

2020 → 25

Bachelor's in law

ULiège, then UCLouvain

Two years passed, no degree.

2017 → 21

Sales jobs and return to studies

Liège

Sales representative, shop manager, security guard training; upper secondary diploma (CESS) in evening classes.

2013 → 17

CIS technician (communications)

Belgian Defence

Radio, satellite, VoIP and Cisco IP networks in a classified environment; trained new recruits.

Certifications

What's verifiable today

One certification earned, two in preparation, and six Anthropic courses on AI and Claude Code.

Earned · January 2026

AZ-900, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

The basics of Azure cloud: concepts, services, security, compliance and pricing.

What AZ-900 covers
  • Cloud concepts (25–30%)Shared responsibility model, IaaS / PaaS / SaaS, public / private / hybrid cloud, consumption-based model, high availability & scalability.
  • Azure architecture & services (35–40%)Regions & availability zones, resource groups and subscriptions, compute (VMs, containers, functions), networking (VNet, VPN, ExpressRoute, DNS), storage (blob, tiers, redundancy), identity (Entra ID, MFA, RBAC, Zero Trust, Defender for Cloud).
  • Management & governance (30–35%)Cost management (pricing calculator, tags), governance (Azure Policy, resource locks, Purview), deployment (portal, CLI / PowerShell, ARM & IaC, Azure Arc), monitoring (Advisor, Service Health, Azure Monitor).
Verify on Microsoft Learn

Why this certification

The AZ-900 lays the foundations of Microsoft's cloud, where many .NET applications run. The AZ-104 is the logical next step.

In preparation

CCNA, Cisco

Reference network certification: switching, routing, basic infrastructure security.

What the CCNA covers
  • Network fundamentals & access (40%)OSI / TCP-IP models, cabling & interfaces, VLANs, 802.1Q trunking, EtherChannel, Spanning Tree, Wi-Fi & WLAN architecture.
  • IP connectivity & services (35%)Static routing & OSPF, IPv4 / IPv6 addressing, NAT, DHCP, DNS, NTP, QoS, SNMP, Syslog.
  • Security & automation (25%)Port security, ACLs, VPNs, AAA & 802.1X, hardening practices, REST APIs, automation (Ansible) & programmable networking.

Why this certification

Networks underpin everything that runs in production. The CCNA builds on my years in Defence communications; I am preparing it alongside my development projects.

In preparation

AZ-104, Azure Administrator

Day-to-day Azure administration: identity, governance, storage, compute, virtual networking and monitoring.

What AZ-104 covers
  • Identity & governance (20–25%)Entra ID, RBAC, subscriptions, policies, management groups
  • Storage (15–20%)Storage accounts, blobs, files, backup, replication
  • Compute (20–25%)Virtual machines, scale sets, App Service, containers
  • Virtual networking (15–20%)VNet, NSG, peering, VPN, load balancing, private DNS
  • Monitoring & backup (10–15%)Azure Monitor, alerts, Log Analytics, Recovery Services

Why this certification

Moving from concepts to real administration of an Azure environment, to deploy and run my own .NET applications.

Anthropic Academy (2026)

Six courses completed on AI and Claude Code. These are course completions, not exam-based certifications.

  • AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations
  • AI Capabilities and Limitations
  • Claude 101
  • Claude Code 101
  • Claude Code in Action
  • Introduction to agent skills
Goals

What's next: what I am aiming for

Three goals, shown as such: ahead of me, not achieved.

  1. 01

    A full stack AI developer role

    Apply my method within a team: .NET or TypeScript, integrated LLMs, AI agents framed by tests.

  2. 02

    The bachelor's degree in June 2027

    Bachelor's in business programming at Institut Saint-Laurent, in evening classes.

  3. 03

    AZ-104 and Cisco CCNA

    Two certifications in preparation, with no date announced until I am ready.

Skills

The technical foundation

LLM integration

Claude API on the server: tools, web search, schema-validated answers, spending cap.

AI agents

Claude Code with review sub-agents, hooks, project memory and MCP.

Back end

C# / .NET 10, ASP.NET Core, EF Core and PostgreSQL; also Java / Spring Boot, Node.js and Go.

Front end

TypeScript, React, Next.js, Blazor and Angular.

Tests and continuous integration

xUnit, Vitest, Playwright and GitHub Actions in my .NET and TypeScript projects.

Application security

JWT authentication, two-factor authentication, secrets out of the code, security headers.

Stack

The tools of my projects

What I use in the projects published on GitHub, during my internship and in training.

AI

  • Claude API
  • Claude Code
  • Sub-agents, hooks, MCP
  • Vercel AI SDK

Back end

  • C# / .NET 10
  • ASP.NET Core
  • EF Core
  • Java / Spring Boot
  • Node.js (Fastify)
  • Go

Front end

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Blazor
  • Angular
  • Tailwind CSS

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • SQLite
  • MySQL

Quality and tooling

  • xUnit
  • Vitest
  • Playwright
  • GitHub Actions
  • Docker
  • Git
  • Linux
  • Azure
Projects

What I have built

Four projects from 2026: three with public code on GitHub, one in development.

BatteTypeScript · Claude agent

Management of my crêpe stand: Claude agent with web search, spending cap, works without AI; more than 4,800 automated tests.

Palier.NET 10 · API

Workout tracking API in ASP.NET Core, EF Core and PostgreSQL: full authentication, data isolated per user, about 1,000 xUnit tests, more than 500 of them against a real database.

ClawkWerkGo · public source code

CyFun 2025 / NIS2 self-assessment for SMEs: 218 requirements, agentless collection, HTML, PDF and Excel reports; more than 650 tests.

StudyIncIn development

A platform for sharing study documents, in .NET 10 and Blazor, with Stripe subscriptions.

Languages

Languages

FrenchNative
EnglishB1+ · technical English
DutchA1 · basics
Beyond the code

Passions & initiatives

My passions

  • Archery
  • Building PCs

Business project

A crêpe stand in Liège

A crêpe stand project as a side business, at La Batte market in Liège. I wrote its management software, Batte: recipes, stock, forecasts, sales and accounting.

Liège · personal project

Hiring?

Write to me: I reply with the same transparency as on this page.

Contact meCall 0475 20 55 62
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I am looking for a full stack developer role focused on AI. See the contact page.

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