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Celebrating Women's History Month 2024

March is Women's History Month, a month dedicated to celebrating women who have broken barriers with their innovations and made history. A month to include women that didn't receive the recognition they deserved.

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  • Rune Devuyst
    in the spotlight

    Meet Rune Devuyst, Coding designer & accessibility consultant

    Meet Rune, a coding designer & accessibility consultant. Her journey in tech includes many chapters: she worked for a number of Belgian start-ups, achieved her early dream of working for a Silicon Valley company, and then dared to change her dream to meet the balance in life we should all strive for.
    In her day to day life she focuses her efforts on bringing more attention to accessibility through her consultancy work and teaching experience, while allocating time for her six lovely pets and different crafts.

    10 min read

  • Gladys Villegas
    in the spotlight

    Meet Gladys Villegas, Remote Sensing Data Scientist

    Gladys is a PhD candidate in BioScience engineering. Her research focuses on monitoring Ecuadorian land to study important questions such as deforestation in the Amazonian region of Ecuador and improving farming practices with satellite data insights.

    When she's not processing geospatial data, you can find gladys expressing her creativity through photography to capture the beauty of this world, and cooking as she loves to invest recipes. Besides creativity, physical endurance is another trait she upholds as she enjoys pushing her limits with a long run and calisthenics exercises.

    6 min read

  • Building Sustainable Websites
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    Building Sustainable Websites

    Have you ever took a moment to stand still and think about the impact you're making with the websites you're building? For the last 5 years or so I have been working on becoming more conscious about the impact I'm making, more in particular the negative impact.

    Btw, did you know that tech is responsible for 4% of the global energy consumption???

    4 min read

  • Tessa Ickx
    in the spotlight

    Meet Tessa Ickx, Data Scientist

    Meet Tessa Ickx, a data scientist or programmer surrounded with data as she beautifully describes it.

    Tessa’s fascination with tech began at a very young age, sparked by her curiosity towards computers. She then taught herself how to code and later pursued her studies in Information Engineering Technology. In her free time, Tessa is passionate about knowledge sharing and engages in teaching STEM subjects to children aged 8 to 15.

    5 min read

  • Azize Ergün
    in the spotlight

    Meet Azize Ergün, Software Engineer

    Katniss Everdeen might not have been a coder but Azize is.

    Azize Ergün is a 24-year-old software engineer with a passion for adventure and coding. After a study trip in New York and an internship in Milan, Azize landed her first job about a year ago, in a product company as a software engineer with a scrum master hat. Her hobbies include archery, reading and a thirst for exploring new horizons.

    8 min read

  • Sarah Klein
    in the spotlight

    Meet Sarah Klein, Senior Data Scientist

    Who says data scientists don't sing in choirs?
    Meet Dr. Sarah Klein, a German-born multitalented data scientist with a PhD in physics. And yes, Sarah is also part of a local choir since she moved to Belgium.

    While Sarah originally didn't set out to start coding, she learned it more or less by chance during her physics studies and it helped steer her towards statistical physics which eventually led to her current job.

    4 min read

  • techtalks

    Recap of our TechTalks - Spring edition 2023

    Another round of techTalks, and this time in West Flanders! We spent a delightful evening at Sweet Mustard in Kortrijk in the company of Emma Dendooven and Rune Devuyst talking ethics, accessibility, data and privacy. Enjoy the recap!

    6 min read

  • Astrid De Ruddere
    in the spotlight

    Meet Astrid De Ruddere, Full-stack developer

    Astrid has been a web developer for over a decade, first working as an employee and later on she made the switch to going freelance. With JavaScript, the Vue framework and PHP as her main tools of trade, Astrid focusses on full-stack web development.

    A few years ago she made the bold choice to launch a project of her own, a perfect way to push past her boundaries.

    Curious what this entrepeneurial developer does during a normal weekday?

    5 min read

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