Enterprise Architect @ Google Cloud Turing Test Verified Human ✓

Hi, I'm Jerome 👋

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.

Born and raised in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪 • /net/dev is my online garage • "Hakuna matata — take it easy, there are no worries."

Jerome Paquay

Handsome Genius ™

Brussels, Belgium • 20+ Years in IT

var innovate = function(x) {
  return (10 * x);
};
innovate("whats_next"); // 🚀 Output: 10x Transformation

Verified Certifications & Credentials 🏅

Official third-party Google Cloud digital badges verified on Credly:


Verified Attributes & Capabilities 🎯

Interactive filterable trait matrix based on human Turing verification:

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Eco Hacker

IoT FarmBot & sustainable tech advocate

❤️
Dad of 3

Proud father of 3 rockstar teenagers

🚴
I bike

Commuter & cycling enthusiast

🤝
I meet

Connecting innovative teams

📚
I learn

Continuous tech exploration

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I climb

Scaling physical & architecture heights

😄
I laugh

Hakuna matata philosophy

💻
I code

Building trusted systems & tools

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Great Beard

Rocking a top-tier engineer beard

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Handsome Genius ™

Verified 10x innovator

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Crypto-Agile

Post-quantum security advocate

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Turing Verified

100% Passed Turing Human Test


Philosophy & 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 dozens of successful projects from launch to landing.

In my role as Enterprise Architect with Google Cloud, I design and develop 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.

Cybersecurity for the Quantum Era 🛡️⚡ — Quantum computers are expected to soon break traditional public-key cryptography (RSA-2048 / ECC). Transitioning enterprise systems to Post-Quantum Cryptography (FIPS 203/204 — ML-KEM / Kyber & Dilithium) hybrid mode ensures long-term protection against store-now-decrypt-later attacks. Become crypto-agile.


My Programming Lifeline 🚀 (1991 – 2026+)

Personal code history, key milestones, language evolutions, and tech stack experience since 1991:

1991

🕹️ Commodore 64 & BASIC

First after-school coding lessons. Typing POKE & PEEK commands in BASIC on 8-bit hardware.

BASICC64
1995

💻 First PC & Web Dawn

Pentium 133MHz, 64MB RAM. Writing MS Office Macros, MS Access DBs, VBScript, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Flash ActionScript.

VBScriptHTML/CSSJSActionScript
1997

🌐 56kbps Dial-Up & LAMP Stack

Home Internet setup @ 56kbps. Building full-stack web applications with ASP.net (IIS/Access), WAMP/LAMP, PHP, MySQL & Bash scripts.

PHPMySQLBashASP.NET
1999

⚙️ Computer Science & Systems

University CS engineering. Deep dive into MATLAB, C, C++, Java, UML architectural design, x86 Assembler, and SQL database design.

CC++JavaAssemblySQL
2006

🐍 Python, Rust & Cisco TCL

Joined Cisco Systems. Scripting network infrastructure with Cisco IOS TCL, adopting Python, Rust, CoffeeScript, and server-side Node.js.

PythonRustNode.jsCisco TCL
2018

☁️ Google Cloud, Go & Machine Learning

Joined Google Cloud as Customer Engineer. Scaling Go architectures, TensorFlow with Keras, Flutter cross-platform apps & TypeScript.

GoTensorFlowTypeScriptFlutter
2021

🤖 Quantum Security & Scratch Education

PQC Crypto-Agility, Post-Quantum security design, and teaching fundamental block programming to the next generation with Scratch 👾.

ScratchPQCGKE
2022

⚡ Generative Pre-trained Transformer & LLMs

GPT & Transformer architectures emerge. LLMs accelerate tech transformation, making the once-impossible possible 👾.

BERTGPTLLM
2023

🧠 Open Weights & Local LLMs

Open-weight models explode (Llama, Gemma, Ollama). Running local LLM inference engines and MCP protocol integrations 🚀.

GeminiMCPOllama
2024

🔮 Multimodal Gemini 1.5 & Vibe Coding

1M+ token context window, native multimodal reasoning (video/audio), and AI-driven Vibe Coding workflows taking flight ✨.

Gemini 1.5Vibe CodingVertex AI
2025

🐝 Agentic Revolution & Swarm Intelligence

Multi-agent swarms working on long-running code refactoring, automated security audits, and complex science breakthroughs 👾.

ADK AgentsDeepSeekUnsloth
2026+

🚀 Gemini 3.5 & Autonomous AI Engineering

Autonomous AI pair programmers & SRE co-piloting. Deploying serverless multi-agent architectures with zero-downtime chaos resilience 🛡️.

Gemini 3.5AntigravitySRE Chaos

Work Experience 💼

Over 20 years of designing scalable architectures and driving digital transformation:

September 2018 – Present

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.

Google Cloud Enterprise Architecture EU Public Sector Security & Compliance
June 2006 – August 2018

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.

Cisco NATO / EU Institutions Network Security Infrastructure
September 2002 – June 2006

IT Manager

Missil Petroleum

Responsible for end-to-end IT operations, infrastructure availability, and internal systems deployment.

IT Management Operations Infrastructure

Garage Mechanics & Interactive Labs 🛠️

Personal lab environments, micro-apps, interactive simulators, and web experiments: