Hi, I'm Jerome Paquay 👋
Building trusted relationships with people by listening to their needs and meeting them where they are in their transformation. Solving tough engineering problems and accelerating organizations to the next step in digitalization.
Handsome Genius ™
Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪 • 20+ Years in IT
"Hakuna matata - take it easy, no worries"
Verified Attributes & Capabilities 🎯
Human trait matrix verified via automated Turing test.
Professional Cloud Architect
Design, develop & manage scalable, highly available, secure cloud architecture driving business outcomes.
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Accelerate 2026 Hackathon Participant
Earned for hacking into the future & accelerating cloud/AI architecture models at Accelerate 2026.
Verify on Credly ↗Philosophy & Leadership 📖
Principles honed over 20+ years of enterprise architecture and technology leadership.
I’m a passionate technologist with a recognized customer-centric attitude working for over twenty years in IT. I strive to provide my teams with the best solutions taking into account their needs and expectations.
This produced +XX successful projects to launch and land. In my role, I’ve been designing and developing architectures for on-premise and cloud-based systems to solve large global organizations' business requirements.
I have a natural leadership that expresses best when organizing cross-functional teams around concrete goals. Born and raised in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪, /net/dev is my online garage.
Work Experience 💼
20+ years of leading enterprise architecture, public sector cloud, and critical infrastructure.
Customer Engineer / Cloud Architect
Google Cloud
Cloud Architect for EU public sector. Partnering with innovative teams to design resilient Google Cloud Platform solutions, solve complex engineering challenges, and accelerate digital maturity.
Systems Engineer / Solutions Architect
Cisco Systems
Solutions Architect for EU institutions, NATO, and Belgian Governments. Engineered mission-critical networking, cybersecurity, and infrastructure solutions across large global organizations.
IT Manager
Missil Petroleum
Responsible for end-to-end IT operations, infrastructure availability, and internal systems deployment.
Programming Lifeline 🚀
Jerome's personal code history, key milestones, language evolutions, and tech stack experience since 1991.
🕹️ Commodore 64 & BASIC
First after-school coding lessons. Typing POKE & PEEK commands in BASIC on 8-bit hardware.
💻 First PC & Web Dawn
Pentium 133MHz, 64MB RAM. Writing MS Office Macros, MS Access DBs, VBScript, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Flash ActionScript.
🌐 56kbps Dial-Up & LAMP Stack
Building full-stack web applications with ASP.net (IIS/Access), WAMP/LAMP, PHP, MySQL & Bash scripts.
⚙️ Computer Science & Systems
University CS engineering. Deep dive into MATLAB, C, C++, Java, UML architectural design, x86 Assembler, and SQL database design.
🐍 Python, Rust & Cisco TCL
Joined Cisco Systems. Scripting network infrastructure with Cisco IOS TCL, adopting Python, Rust, CoffeeScript, and server-side Node.js.
☁️ Google Cloud, Go & Machine Learning
Joined Google Cloud as Customer Engineer. Scaling Go architectures, TensorFlow with Keras, Flutter cross-platform apps & TypeScript.
🤖 Quantum Security & Scratch Education
PQC Crypto-Agility, Post-Quantum security design, and teaching fundamental block programming to the next generation with Scratch.
⚡ GPT & LLMs
GPT & Transformer architectures emerge. LLMs accelerate tech transformation, making the once-impossible possible.
🧠 Open Weights & Local LLMs
Open-weight models explode (Llama, Gemma, Ollama). Running local LLM inference engines and MCP protocol integrations.
🔮 Multimodal Gemini 1.5 & Vibe Coding
1M+ token context window, native multimodal reasoning (video/audio), and AI-driven Vibe Coding workflows taking flight.
🐝 Agentic Revolution & Swarms
Multi-agent swarms working on long-running code refactoring, automated security audits, and complex science breakthroughs.
🚀 Gemini 3.5 & Autonomous AI Engineering
Autonomous AI pair programmers & SRE co-piloting. Deploying serverless multi-agent architectures with zero-downtime chaos resilience.
Garage Mechanics & Interactive Simulators 🛠️
Personal lab environments, micro-apps, SRE chaos sandboxes, and web mechanics experiments have moved to a dedicated page.