Martijn Luyckx

At Europe's #1 ethical hacking and bug bounty platform, I help to ensure all security vulnerabilities that get submitted to our platform are of excellent quality. This way, researchers get the attention and assistance they deserve and companies get the most value possible for their investment.

Organising a Cyber Security competition for UHasselt (computer science) students (UHCTF). Creating multiple challenges, coordinating partnerships and accommodation. A Capture The Flag (or CTF) challenges its participants to find hidden information in various digital scenarios.

After working freelance for a while, three friends (fellow students) and I decided to combine our skills, so we founded Headr. Together we strive to automate and digitise business processes of small to medium businesses. That's why we build digital tools to alleviate administrative and other boring tasks. Using the client's input and our creative and technical experience, we propose a solution tailored to the client.

After four years of actively organising the yearly TEDxUHasselt event, I can proudly look back on many successful editions. A team of about 10 students and PhD (volunteers) strive to bring an amazing event year after year. I would love to highlight the edition where I was the lead organiser: TEDxUHasselt 2018, Bright Ideas. Mainly screening and booking potential ideas and speakers for our TEDx stage, as well as making sure their stay was as perfect as could be. Side tasks included arranging catering, workshops, startup showcases and more for an audience of upwards of 700 people.

At The Security Factory (tSF), I did a spontaneous internship where I learned a lot during the introductory day of one-on-one coaching, and applied my existing skills with my newly gathered techniques to assist the pentest team for multiple real-world projects. Firstly, we attacked and reported on the full networking infrastructure of a client. Afterwards, we got to work on a web platform. Lastly, we tried to find and report any security flaws in a mobile application.

For a long time I've been interested in web technologies. I've been writing HTML, CSS and PHP since I was 15 years old. This passion has grown to coding in JavaScript, designing these websites in Photoshop and Illustrator, managing databases with SQL, and more. The classes 'web programming' and 'databases' at Hasselt University taught me the details and tricks I needed to view myself as freelance-worthy. Besides creating applications on the web, I use the skills I gathered about Adobe Create Suite when designing posters, logos, invites...

At most once a month I spent my time as a coach at CoderDojo Hasselt as volunteer. CoderDojo organises workshops to teach children and teenagers the basics of computational thinking. At CoderDojo Hasselt, we offer Scratch, Lego Mindstorms and Minecraft (redstone and mods). As of March 2018, we also started teaching textual programming with Python.

Head of Organisation for Spark Your Idea, an event to promote student entrepreneurship and provide practical tips and tricks to students considering a career as entrepreneur. More information and photos on the event's website.

On the IT department of Greenyard Prepared, I joined the system admin group for the summer. This group takes care of all IT infrastructure. With tasks ranging from maintaining and repairing hardware, managing the network and servers, providing support for other employees and solving various problems, everyone was busy at all times. My tasks evolved from smaller support cases to tackling entire cases by myself. Working with this very specialised company has taught me the value of optimising workflows.

The work at Greenyard Prepared, formerly known as Noliko, alternated between quality checks at a belt, pouring (managing speed and amount of products on the belt), controlling the depalletiser (machine) and solving problems with bad packaging. This much variation in my work obliged me to pick up new skills extremely fast. With the variation in work, came variation in hours: I worked night shifts, regular hours and alternating day shifts.

Helping to record a dance show, a theatre... Without any experience with professional camera equipment, I went on to help a friend who was in an emergency situation and suddenly short staffed. I gained a small knowledge of (handling) cameras, do-s and don't-s for lighting, recording angles... But most importantly: satisfied clients and a friend back on track.

Long hours, working fast without sacrificing quality (during rush hours) and preparing as well as I could during calm periods. Those are the things that my experience at Den Eik has taught me.