Maxime Aerts Independent product engineer · Liège / Remote

Work — twelve projects

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Ziphe

ziphe.be ↗

Time & invoicing mini-ERP for service companies of 3 to 10 people: hours logged in the field, even offline.

Ziphe
  • ERP
  • Web
  • Mobile
0022023 – 2026

TwinSkin

twinskin.com ↗

Medtech product deployed in hospitals. Team of 5 developers, PO / designer / PM / architect roles combined, GDPR compliance.

TwinSkin
  • Medtech
  • Management
  • ISO 27001
  • AI
0032026 →

Philophore

philophore.com ↗

An ambitious project combining hardware, backend, mobile and web: a connected light display that shows messages from loved ones. Modules, API, iOS / Android app, website.

Philophore
  • Hardware
  • Backend
  • Mobile
  • Web
0042026 →

Rabadon

rabadon.net ↗

Split a basket across N sellers at the lowest total cost, shipping fees and rules included. Designed, built and operated solo.

Rabadon
  • Distributed
  • Scraping
  • Data
0052026

Macaw

inno4def.be ↗

Winning team of the Defence's Battlefield of Things 3 hackathon: a practical way to deploy ASR / TTS and make battlefield communications undetectable.

Macaw — award ceremony and hackathon badge
  • Defence
  • Hackathon
  • ASR
0062024 – 2026

Home datacenter

Self-hosted

VLAN-segmented network on OpenWrt, default-deny firewall, enterprise-grade hardware. Proxmox, CI runners, Home Assistant and self-hosted, monitored services.

Network map, anonymised
  • Network
  • DevOps
  • Security
0072023 – 2024

Immotep

Closed in 2024

Quantitative analysis of the real-estate market: automated listing collection and price modelling.

Immotep — price per m² by region
  • Data
  • Scraping
0082022 – 2023

Honeynet ULiège

honeynet.org ↗

Malicious behaviour at Internet scale: passive collection run continuously, mass scans, processing pipelines.

Honeynet ULiège
  • Security
  • Research
0092022

Climathon 2022

Liège

A network of recycled batteries that helps balance the grid while providing very low-cost home batteries. Pitched at Climathon Liège, Energy challenge.

Pitching at Climathon Liège 2022
  • Energy
  • Hackathon
0102021 – 2022

SecOps NRB

keyes.eu ↗

SecOps team built from scratch: audits, penetration tests, incident response, SIEM detection.

  • Security
  • SOC
  • Pentest
0112021

CSCBE 2021

cybersecuritychallenge.be ↗

Cyber Security Challenge Belgium: national finalist with “Les Petits Pédestres”, 9th place, one of the last teams flying the flag for French-speaking universities.

2021 online finals scoreboard, Les Petits Pédestres 9th
  • Security
  • CTF
0122018

UGo

ugo.be ↗

Mobility startup: Angular Dart website and Flutter plugin prototype for GPS tracking.

UGo
  • Web
  • Mobile
Project management · Cybersecurity · DevOps · Product design

I take a fuzzy business need and turn it into software running in production.

I secure it by design, then maintain and adapt it over time. For entrepreneurs and companies looking for someone they can trust to deliver the solution that fits their needs.

Recent work See my work →
001 · 2026 → Ziphe SaaS · Flutter 002 · 2023–26 TwinSkin Medtech · Team 003 · 2026 → Philophore Hardware · Mobile · Web …
Contact me I'll get back to you to discuss your project
Email maxime.aerts@m43rts.com LinkedIn /in/m43rts
Maxime Aerts
Experience
8 years in IT
Including
Medtech, SecOps, Startup, Research
Role
Product Manager, IT Engineer
Background
Computer Sciences, M. Sc., ULiège

01Scoping

A usable PRD, a target architecture, a costed delivery plan, the risks and the cost of ownership.

02Build & Ship

Application, infrastructure, pipelines, observability, security by design. All the way to a running product, not just a demo.

03Adapt & Maintain

Updates, monitoring, fixes, minor changes, a monthly check-in. Scope in writing.