Focus Areas
- IoT & LPWAN programmes
- DevOps and platform delivery
- Reliability engineering
IoT, DevOps, Reliability
Hello, I’m Absar
I help teams ship reliable, evidence-driven systems—connecting IoT, cloud, and automation with clear strategy.
Dr. ir.PhD (Computer Science)DevOpsTest AutomationEngineerIoTLPWANKU Leuven
Experienced doctoral researcher in IoT, with a Doctor’s Degree in Engineering Science - Computer Science from KU Leuven, extensive experience in Low Power Networks, DevOps, Quality Release, and IT infrastructure. Passionate about leveraging technical expertise and creativity to drive successful project outcomes. Committed to continuous learning and applying cutting-edge technologies to optimize processes and deliver high-quality results.
📍 Sint-Niklaas, Belgium🌐 English · Dutch (basic) · Urdu✉ ahr@absar.eu
About
Profile at a glance
Practical engineering leadership rooted in research, with a focus on building reliable products the right way.
- Brings together cloud, connectivity, and automation to move ideas from lab to live operations.
- Partners with founders, product leads, and engineering teams to clarify outcomes and de-risk delivery.
- Works hands-on across CI/CD, testing, and observability to keep teams shipping with confidence.
How I work
- Evidence-led recommendations
- Embedded with your team
- Automation-first mindset
What to expect
- Clear roadmaps and checkpoints
- Transparent comms
- Designs that scale with you
How I can help
Engagement pillars
From shaping strategy to guiding delivery, I embed with teams to keep quality and velocity aligned.
Strategic technology leadership
Strategy & Architecture
Translating business goals into resilient cloud, platform, and connectivity architectures with pragmatic roadmaps.
Automation-first
Delivery & Automation
Designing CI/CD, testing, and observability practices that accelerate delivery while raising quality across teams.
Built for scale
IoT & Edge Programmes
Rolling out LPWAN, device lifecycle, and secure telemetry at scale—bridging hardware, firmware, and cloud.
Skills
PythonC/C++RubyDevOps (Jenkins, Ansible)AWSDockerKubernetes/OpenShiftLPWAN/LoRa
Working style
How I partner with teams
Clear communication, structured delivery, and a bias toward automation ensure progress you can measure.
01
Discover
Clarify objectives, map risks, and align stakeholders around measurable outcomes.
02
Design
Shape solution blueprints, choose the right toolchains, and create delivery guardrails.
03
Deliver
Pair with teams to implement, automate, and operationalize with high visibility.
04
Evolve
Continuously refine through data, retrospectives, and reliability metrics.
Recent Work
SENIOR ENGINEER QRE-DEVOPS — IDIRECT ST ENGINEERING, BELGIUM
May 2024 - Present
- Currently leading efforts on the Empirical Virtual Test Network and the CIDI Super Cluster for product validation and testing.
- Continue to enhance automation in testing frameworks and integrate them with Continuous Integration (CI) systems.
- Parallelize automated test execution, including execution in device clouds.
- Develop and maintain release tools to streamline release management tasks.
QUALITY RELEASE ENGINEER — IDIRECT ST ENGINEERING, BELGIUM
Jul 2022 - May 2024
- Automated testing frameworks and integrated them with CI systems.
- Parallelized automated test execution, including execution in device clouds.
- Created release tools to automate release management tasks.
- Built test tools to automate test data setup.
Selected Publications
- ReSoNate: A Protocol for Audio Transmission over Low Power Wide Area Networks
- Smart-Hop: Fast and Reliable Multi-hop Networking for LoRa
- Design of a Robust MAC Protocol for LoRa
- EH-CRAM: A Sustainable Energy Harvesting Algorithm for LPWANs
- CRAM: Robust Medium Access Control for LPWAN using Cryptographic Frequency Hopping
View the full list on LinkedIn.
Let’s talk
Interested in projects across IoT networking, CI/CD, and reliability engineering—evidence-driven and automation-first.
