Kristof Stroobants - Curriculum Vitae

01 / EXPERIENCE

INFRASTRUCTURE SPECIALIST CORE

CM, Schaarbeek · 07/2026 — Present

Microsoft Entra ID & Identity Integrations: Administer Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) environment, leveraging SSO, OIDC, and SAML integrations.
Infrastructure as Code & AWS: Drive declarative infrastructure management using Terraform; oversee AWS workloads, EC2 provisioning, VPC networking, and IAM access controls.
GitLab CI/CD & PowerShell Universal: Manage automated GitLab CI/CD pipelines deploying PowerShell Universal portals, scripts, and configurations across 2 Active Directory domains.

01 / EXPERIENCE

INFRA ENGINEER

CM, Schaarbeek · 2020 — 2026

AWX & vSphere Automation: Engineered AWX and Ansible YAML playbook automations to autonomously provision and deploy virtual machines in VMware vSphere.
Windows Server & System Administration: Administered enterprise Windows Server infrastructure, Active Directory domain controllers, Group Policies, and OS standardization.
PowerShell Automation: Built automated PowerShell workflows for server staging, administrative utilities, and operational maintenance.
Tier-3 Troubleshooting & Diagnostics: Performed complex tier-3 troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and enterprise system performance diagnostics.

01 / EXPERIENCE

HELPDESK & SYSADMIN

CM, Leuven · 2010 — 2020

Helpdesk & Technical Support: Provided tier 1-2 end-user incident resolution, desktop troubleshooting, and IT service desk support.
Desktop Deployment: Automated OS staging & application baselines via SCCM (MECM).
PowerShell Tooling: Created custom GUI utilities for standard non-admin users (TCP/IP printers, PDF merging).
Active Directory Maintenance: Scripted user lifecycle management & stale account auditing (LastLogon analysis).

02 / SKILLS

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Core & Emerging Proficiencies

MS ENTRA ID & HYBRID IDENTITY 80%

Entra ID (Azure AD), SSO, OIDC & SAML Integrations

IAC & AWS CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE 70%

Terraform (Declarative IaC), AWS EC2, VPC, IAM

POWERSHELL & GITLAB CI/CD PIPELINES 90%

GitLab CI/CD Pipelines, PowerShell Universal (2 Domains Deployment), Git, Automated Testing & Deployments

WINDOWS SERVER & ACTIVE DIRECTORY 85%

Exchange, Group Policy, OS Standardization, System Administration

TIER-3 TROUBLESHOOTING & DIAGNOSTICS 90%

Complex Server Tier-3 Escalations & Performance Analysis

02B / LANGUAGES & BACKGROUND

02B

LANGUAGES & BACKGROUND

Spoken Languages & Education

🗣 SPOKEN LANGUAGES

DUTCH NATIVE

ENGLISH PROFESSIONAL

FRENCH BASIC

🎓 EDUCATION & ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Postgraduaat Bedrijfsbeheer: Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven (2008–2009)
Interactive Multimedia Design: Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen (2005–2008)

03 / PROJECTS

15 ARTICLES

PROJECTS & BLOG

15 PowerShell Tools & Tech Writeups

Feeling Generic? (2022)
PowerShell script to audit & manage generic and expiring accounts.
StageBuddy — MoveBuddy (2022)
Tools to streamline desktop deployment & workstation staging.
GUI — Merge PDF Files (2022)
PowerShell PDF merger utility using PDFSharp.DLL library.
Argus, My Loyal Dog! (2022)
PowerShell tool residing in system tray for quick end-user assistance.
Powershell-SCCM-Staging-GUI (2019)
Fast & reliable PowerShell GUI for SCCM computer staging.
GPO — Apply Only Once (2018)
Technical breakdown of how single-application Group Policies work.
TCP/IP Printer Deployment GUI (2018)
PowerShell GUI to map TCP/IP printers as a non-admin standard user.
XPATH Scraping Technique (2017)
Web scraping using XPATH in combination with HTMLAgilityPack.
Investigating AD Attributes (2017)
Analyzing LastLogon & LastLogonTimeStamp to identify stale AD objects.
Learning REGEX with PowerShell (2017)
Personal reference guide for regular expressions in PowerShell scripts.
HP Warranty Information Scraper (2017)
PowerShell tool to scrape asset warranty data from HP site.
ODBC 64-bit Auto Deployment (2017)
Solving 64-bit OS ODBC driver GPO deployment challenges.
Client Slow Shutdown Analysis (2017)
Root cause analysis for corporate laptop slow shutdown issues.
Slow Post-Boot Procedure Analysis (2017)
WPA & WPR performance trace analysis on Windows machines.
BSOD Crash Dump Analysis (2017)
Debugging widespread Windows blue screen crash dumps.

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