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Michel Willeput

@michelwilleput

Data Engineer at Nordea Bank building Spark and Scala pipelines for enterprise financial crime detection.

Belgium
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At Nordea Bank, I optimize financial crime analytics models and engineer Spark and Scala pipelines for anti-fraud systems. I also use graph concepts and entity resolution to map behavioral data across complex transactions.

As a Quantexa Analytics Consultant, I performed feature engineering on government and banking datasets and tuned network analytics models to reduce false positives. I deployed a Quantexa solution at the Belgian Ministry of Finance (FOD Finance) for predictive tax-compliance risk scoring and completed a proof of concept at KBC Bank.

At Crelan Bank, I analyzed banking logs for AML/KYC risks and developed fraud-detection and payment-scoring algorithms. I also built risk metrics and predictive compliance dashboards using SAP BusinessObjects and Excel Power Pivot.

During my 24-year Mastercard career, I worked on payment authorization, key management, and compliance systems. I created a zero-downtime deployment module for the real-time authorization network and a hardware security module simulator to support quality assurance testing.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Crelan Bank logoCB

Risk Analytics & Predictive Data Analyst

Crelan Bank

Nov 2020 - Jan 2022 (1 year 2 months)

Conducted exploratory data analysis and data mining on raw banking logs to proactively identify emerging AML/KYC risk patterns. Developed statistical fraud detection and transaction payment scoring algorithms to mitigate real-time card and payment fraud.

FI

Data Analyst

finance&invest.brussels

Sep 2019 - Sep 2020 (1 year)

Applied data mining methodologies to small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) datasets within the Belgian ICT sector. Executed end-to-end data extraction and analytics to complete a Bachelor's degree in Data Analysis at Haute École EPHEC.

Mastercard logoMA

Technical Leader / Software Development Manager

Feb 2016 - Jun 2019 (3 years 4 months)

Led technical analysis and Agile software development for key management and compliance projects, capturing business needs and translating them to functional requirements. Coached and mentored new engineering resources while managing development cycles for mobile wallet offboarding and PCI compliance initiatives.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Quantexa logoQU

Quantexa

Quantexa Certified Engineer, Data Engineering

Completed advanced deployment, data modeling, and entity resolution framework training. Utilized cloud-native AWS EC2 environments for pipeline testing and graph-analytics deployment.

Haute École EPHEC logoHE

Haute École EPHEC

Bachelor in Business Data Analysis, Data Analysis

Completed a Bachelor's degree in Data Analysis, applying data mining methodologies to SME datasets in the Belgian ICT sector.

Haute École Léonard de Vinci (Institut Paul Lambin) logoHL

Haute École Léonard de Vinci (Institut Paul Lambin)

Bachelor in Computer Science, Computer Science

Earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

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