Arvid Van Essche
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Proven security service and solution design architect. Always searching the horizon for challenges that don’t exist yet. Experienced in securing Cloud, Software defined networks and DevSecOps. Passionate about his hobby soaring through the skies in a small single engine airplane. Sharing the views from the clouds with everyone who wants to join on this adventure.
Skills
- Networking
- SDN
- Network and endpoint security
- Threat intelligence
- DevSecOps
- Service automation
- Zero Trust
- AWS
- Azure
- IBM Cloud
- Google Cloud
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- IBM Cloud Private
- RedHat OpenShift
- Dutch
- English
- Mentoring
- Public speaking
- Vendor relations
Publications
A collection of articles, presentations or talks
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Experience
Cyber Architect
Desiging security solutions for Naval Groups military platforms
Principal Architect - Cybertrust & IBM Inventor
Protecting our customers by building business centric solutions. Enabling a zero-trust approach by bringing IBM’s security solutions within Identity and access, Networking and cloud together. Embedding IBM security frameworks into partnering infrastructure and application managed services.
Principal Architect - Cloud & IBM Inventor
Design and development of new leading services for IBM managed security services cloud delivery tower. Technical ownership and lead of a multi-disciplined team ensuring business objectives in the areas of cloud workload protection, cloud security and compliance posture management and native cloud security controls. Innovate the service industry by designing automated managed services augmented with human expertise.
Senior Security solution design architect
Improving solution methods and creating repeatable processes for global security solutioners and architects. Advising offering management on cloud strategy and service integrations. Providing mentorship and education to security solutioners for first-of-a-kind offerings. Providing thought leadership through IBM’s patents, guilds and position papers.
Security solution design architect
Building complex solutions and assisting technical sales with first of a kind or one of a kind solutions. Working with offering management building new cloud security services for IBM Managed Security Services (Worldwide).
Senior IT Security Analyst
Real time analysis of network security alerts. Network IPS device management. Functional team lead coordinating the IBM MSS Worldwide SOC threat analysts during European business hours. Improving internal tooling to streamline efficiency and accuracy of threat research.
Network Engineer
Provisioning enterprise customers on Belgacom’s MPLS network by configuring backend and CPE routers
Internship Threat Analyst at IBM Managed Security Services
Education
Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven
Yasar University - Turkey
Bloso
Heilig-Hart Heverlee