# Tibo De Peuter

Driven by curiosity and guided by analytical thinking, I passionately design elegant and creative solutions to challenging problems. I balance performance, security and maintainability, striving for continuous improvement.

Driven by curiosity and a passion for secure software design, I specialize in building efficient, maintainable systems. I combine analytical thinking with practical experience in programming and cybersecurity principles to deliver robust solutions.

## Personal details

Somewhere in the world
Year of birth 0
E-mail | redacted@mail.tld
Mobile | +00 000 00 00 00
Website | www.depeuter.dev
Category B driving license

## Skills

### Infrastructure & automation

VMs, Docker, ZFS, IaC, DevSecOps, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Git

### Networking & Security

firewalls, VPNs, secure architectures, monitoring

### Software Engineering:

Clean Code, design patterns, documentation, code reviews, collaboration

Kotlin, Java, C, C++, TS, JS, Python, Bash, Haskell, SQL

Debian, NixOS, Arch Linux, Windows 11

Microsoft Office and equivalents, Adobe Creative Cloud

## Languages

- Dutch Mother tongue
- English Fluent
- French Basic
- German Basic

## Certificates

- Equestrian trainer (initiator)

  | Paardensport Vlaanderen
  | 2024

- Head youth leader

  | Joetz vzw
  | 2022

- Youth leader

  | Joetz vzw
  | 2018

## Education

- ### M.Sc. Computer Science

  - Ghent University 2027

  Electives with a focus on high-performance systems and security.

- ### B.Sc. Computer Science

  - Ghent University 2025

  Minor in security & parallel systems

  - Solid theoretical foundation in computer science, with insight into fundamental concepts, principles and design patterns, supported by practical applications in projects.
  - Strong algorithmic background, including complexity analysis, advanced data structures, algorithmic paradigms, hashing, compression and automata.
  - Thorough knowledge of secure systems and networks: RESTful APIs, semantic web, network security, cryptography, operating systems, and both relational and NoSQL databases.
  - Understanding of ethical and sustainable Artificial Intelligence, explainable AI, neural networks, Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs), Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and computer vision.
  - Lifelong learner capable of quickly and independently adopting new technologies and methodologies.

- ### Science and mathematics

  - Saint Livinuscollege Secondary School Ghent 2021
  CLIL English: 4th year geography, 6th year biology

## Experience

- ### Teaching assistant

  - Ghent University 09/2025 - present
  - Support practical sessions and assessments for undergraduate and graduate science students enrolled in the Programming course.
  - Guide students on Python programming concepts, answering their questions, and facilitating hands-on learning.

- ### Teaching assistant

  - CodeFever vzw 09/2024 - present
  - Introduce children (aged 8-15) to programming and teach computational thinking creatively, using Scratch, Minecraft Education, HTML & JS and Micro:bit.
  - Encourage and support the development of their own interests and curiosity.

- ### Head youth leader

  - Joetz vzw 07/2022 - present
  - Act as the primary contact for a diverse group of youth leaders, facilitate collaboration and coach them.
  - Coordinate daily operations, scheduling, task distribution and administrative follow-up.
  - Ensure (emotional) safety and well-being, make reasoned decisions and carry final responsibility.
  - Continuously reflect and adjust to further develop myself.

- ### ArtBot Animator

  - Saint Livinuscollege Humaniora Ghent 04/2019 - 04/2020
  - Coach small teams of children aged 11 to 12 and let them discover how robots can create art.
  - Assist during the accompanying lessons.
  - Build robots with Lego Mindstorms and Arduino's and program movements in Ardublock.
  - Work on societal themes such as environmental pollution.

- ### Youth leader

  - Joetz vzw 10/2018 - present
  - Organize play activities and accompany groups of up to 30 children (ages 3-15) during summer camps and day trips.
  - Collaborate directly with fellow youth leaders, head youth leaders and external partners, to ensure smooth operations.

- ### (Head) youth leader

  - Joetz vzw 10/2018 - present
  - Organize play activities and accompany groups of up to 30 children (ages 3-15) during summer camps and day trips.
  - Collaborate directly with fellow (head) youth leaders and external partners to ensure smooth operations.
  - As head youth leader (since 2022), act as the primary contact for a diverse group of youth leaders, facilitate collaboration and coach them, coordinate daily operations and administrative follow-up.
  - Ensure (emotional) safety and well-being, take final responsibility and make reasoned decisions.
  - Continuous self-reflection and development.

- ### Homelab

  - Passion project 2020 - present
  - Built and maintained a homelab for hands-on learning in virtualization, containerization and secure networking.
  - Applied IaC principles and automated deployments and security hardening for self-hosted services.