About Me
My name is Matthias Benaets, I currently reside in Alken, Limburg, Belgium .
I’m a certified Secondary Education Teacher specialised in IT/Computer Science, the English language and ICT Coordination. Currently I work as ICT Officer at University Hasselt .
I’m an avid cyclist, love the outdoors and enjoy wildlife photography. You can follow my adventure on
Strava
and view some of my images on
Flickr
.
At home I like to tinker with my homelab, self-hosting, open-source projects and containerisation.
If I have to describe myself in a couple words:
enthusiastic • teamplayer • independent • pragmatic • deliberate • creative • meticulous • positive
Experience #
2020-present #
ICT Officer - Masters of Statistics
@ University Hasselt Diepenbeek
2020-2021 #
Associate Professor - ICT Basics (101 & 201) - PXL Education
@ PXL University College Hasselt
2019-2020 #
Technical Advisor - Telenet for Business
@ Callexcell Sint-Truiden
2017-2018 #
Maintenance worker & Production operator
@ Jiffy Packaging Wellen
Skills #
A lot of my experience is predominantly around teaching and didactical IT. Though, below is a list of tools and technologies that I have experience with:
Office #
Microsoft Office Suite • Google Workspace
Adobe CC #
Photoshop • Illustrator • Lightroom (Classic) • Premiere Pro • After Effects
Programming / Scripting #
VB.net • C# • Python • HTML5/CSS/JS • Shell Scripting
Operating Systems #
Windows • MacOS • GNU/Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, NixOS) • Proxmox VE • TrueNAS
Languages #
Native/Fluent: Dutch • English
Basic/Understand: French • German
Others #
Salesforce • Containerization (Docker/LXC) • ZFS • Git
Education #
2016-2019 #
Bachelor Teacher Secondary Education: English - Applied Informatics - ICT Coordinator
with honors @ PXL University College Hasselt
2015-2016 #
Bachelor Applied Informatics: CCNA Networking Essentials Certified
@ PXL University College Hasselt
2009-2015 #
Secondary Education: Economics and Modern Languages
@ Virga Jesse College Hasselt