gcs • Base Portal
Standalone /net/dev Base Portal (Migration Gate v3.0): cyberpunk CRT cockpit with live v3.netdev.be deck, Open Notebook CV portfolio, VitePress v2 resume, and Aether 4-layer substrate blueprint.
Enterprise Architect @ Google Cloud
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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"
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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.
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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.
Google Cloud
Enterprise Architecture
EU Public Sector
Security & Compliance
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
IT Manager
Missil Petroleum
Responsible for end-to-end IT operations, infrastructure availability, and internal systems deployment.
IT Management
Operations
Infrastructure
Programming Lifeline 🚀
Jerome's 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.
HTML/CSSJavaScriptActionScript
1997
🌐 56kbps Dial-Up & LAMP Stack
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
⚡ GPT & LLMs
GPT & Transformer architectures emerge. LLMs accelerate tech transformation, making the once-impossible possible.
BERTGPTLLMs
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 & Swarms
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
Garage Mechanics 🛠️
Personal lab environments, micro-apps, and web experiments.
Firebase + Cloud CDN
firebase • Bike AI
Serverless Next.js mobility observatory on Firebase App Hosting: live telemetry across 18 Brussels cycling counters, Open-Meteo correlation, OpenStreetMap hotspots, and a Genkit ADK + Gemini 3.8 Flash Gracq co-pilot.
Barogroove • Sonic Forge
Weather-driven playlist engine on Firebase Hosting & Cloud Run: crosses live barometric pressure & world street-art geo-caches with 161,326 Last.fm scrobbles, BigQuery SQL analytics, and Spotify daylist synthesis.
MyTotum • Spanner Graph
Collective engineering memory & Cloud Spanner Graph explorer (TotumGraph: 1,311 nodes, 16,544 edges) behind Zero-Trust IAP: 3-Way Cicero Hybrid RRF, OKF v0.2 authoring copilot, and live Gemini Enterprise AGY SDK agent.
AI Café Brussels
Google AI Café Brussels (Connected Cup Edition) builder hub on Cloud Run: 4-step @gcplab.me onboarding wizard, 30 multi-agent ADK/A2A challenges, EU-27 QMV simulator, OKF AI Economics library, and live Socratic AI Barista Coach.
AetherFlow Studio
Autonomous Cloud Architecture Studio & bidirectional Spec-to-Code synthesis engine behind Cloud Armor WAF & IAP: interactive topology canvas, Gemini 3.8 Pro TDD synthesizer, 6-layer correctness audit, Terraform IaC generator, and W3C trace SRE cockpit.
web3 • Astro 5 Hub
Next-generation Astro 5 static engineering publication & interactive lab portal: Ligne Claire technical dispatches, 4D tag taxonomy, enterprise architect CV v2, and 6 browser-native SRE, PQC, SLSA L4 & EU AI Act simulators.
Google Cloud • Aether
Google Cloud Aether Agentic Engineering Platform (AEP) reference architecture renderer: interactive 5-stage evolutionary blueprint visualizing autonomous agentic meshes, MCP tool gateways, and sovereign cloud substrates.
beyond • Zero Trust
Zero-Trust Software Delivery Shield & BeyondCorp Enterprise lab: interactive 4-tier SLSA supply chain topology connecting Cloud Workstations, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, and GKE Binary Authorization behind IAP.
github.io • Archive
Canonical Beautiful-Jekyll engineering blog & long-form thought leadership archive (jpaquay.github.io): illustrated Franco-Belgian Ligne Claire essays on agentic AI, Post-Quantum Cryptography, and cloud-native architecture.
Interactive Simulators & Labs 🧪
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☁️🤖 Google Cloud & Gemini 3.5 AI Flow Sandbox [Click to Toggle Foldable Box]
Design enterprise AI workloads using Gemini 3.5 Pro, Vertex AI, GKE Autopilot, and Zero Trust security.
AI Engine
Gemini 3.5 Pro
Est. Latency (p95)
42 ms
Throughput
1,250 doc/sec
Cost Efficiency
98% Optimal
⚡ [Gemini 3.5 AI Pipeline] Initialized EU Public Sector Document Pipeline. Gemini 3.5 Pro active with zero-data retention security policy.
🛡️⚡ Cybersecurity for the Quantum Era (PQC Simulator) [Click to Toggle Foldable Box]
⚠️ Quantum Vulnerability Warning
Quantum computers are expected to soon break public-key cryptography (RSA-2048/ECC), putting your sensitive data at risk. To meet these current and emerging threats, it’s vital that your organization become crypto-agile.
Classical RSA-2048
✓ Active Transition
Post-Quantum Cryptography
FIPS 203/204 (Kyber)
💡 Status (2026): Transitioning algorithms to PQC hybrid mode ensures long-term data security against store-now-decrypt-later attacks.
📉💥 SRE & Cloud Autoscaling Chaos Simulator [Click to Toggle Foldable Box]
Simulate enterprise cloud traffic spikes, regional network outages, and DB failovers live.
GKE Pod Replicas
12 Pods (Baseline)
System Latency (p99)
24 ms (Optimal)
💻 [SRE Telemetry Console] Baseline state initialized. All systems operating within normal parameters.