Windows systems engineer — Belgium

Tim Van Engeland

I keep Windows networks running: identity, mail, endpoints, and the plumbing underneath that nobody notices until it breaks. Servers from 2008 to 2025, Active Directory, Exchange, Intune — the full estate.

After hours that same instinct turns into a rack at home — Proxmox and Home Assistant — and a long-running weakness for the trance and melodic house that filled Illusion.

What I work with [email protected]

Toolbox

What I work with

Windows infrastructure end to end — the estate, the identity layer, the mailboxes, and the devices in people's hands.

Platforms
Windows 10 & 11 · Windows Server 2008–2025
Identity & mail
Active Directory · Group Policy · Exchange · Exchange Online
Endpoint & cloud
Intune · Microsoft 365
Network
DNS · DHCP · the day-to-day of a Windows network
Automation
PowerShell · scripted installs and maintenance
Home lab
Proxmox VE · Home Assistant · Zigbee2MQTT

Home lab

Things I run and build

The stuff that runs at home — half hobby, half proving ground for ideas I'd rather not test at work first.

  1. Proxmox

    The rack at home

    A Proxmox host carrying the VMs and containers the house depends on — Home Assistant, storage, backups — with snapshots so a bad change is a two-minute rollback, not an evening.

    • Proxmox VE
    • LXC
    • Backups
  2. Tool

    Home Assistant Update Manager

    A small utility that keeps a Home Assistant install, its add-ons and HACS integrations current — see what's pending, apply updates on my terms, and roll back cleanly when a release misbehaves.

    • C#
    • WPF
    • Supervisor API
  3. Automation

    The house that listens

    Years of Home Assistant automations, dashboards and Zigbee button logic — lighting scenes tuned so a room can drop into "after midnight" with a single press.

    • YAML
    • Jinja
    • Zigbee2MQTT
  4. Scripts

    PowerShell utilities

    Small tools for the unglamorous jobs: backups, bulk file surgery, and installers that behave identically on every machine they touch.

    • PowerShell
    • WinForms

Sounds

Sounds like home

My ear was trained on the dancefloor at Illusion — the Belgian club that ran on melodic house, uplifting trance, and the hard-trance anthems that still set my definition of euphoric.

A long build, a breakdown that takes its time, and a drop the whole room has been waiting for. The retro anthems got played to death and earned every spin — I still measure a night out against them.

The anthems that built the sound

  1. Café del MarEnergy 52
  2. The House of HouseCherrymoon Trax
  3. AfterglowFiocco
  4. Universal NationPush
  5. Greece 2000Three Drives
  6. ChildrenRobert Miles

Sets & classics

About

Who's typing

I'm Tim, a Windows systems engineer based in Belgium. My day is the unglamorous plumbing of a network that has to just work — domain, mail, endpoints, and the quiet maintenance that keeps all three boring.

The same instinct follows me home, where a Proxmox host and a pile of Home Assistant YAML keep the house running. Off the clock I'm usually rebuilding an old Illusion set track by track, and defending the honour of a club that shaped how a generation heard trance.

Based in
Belgium
Role
Windows systems engineer
Day to day
Windows Server, Active Directory, Exchange, Intune
Home lab
Proxmox, Home Assistant, Zigbee, a lot of YAML
On repeat
Melodic house, trance, retro anthems

Contact

Let's talk

A question, an infrastructure problem, or a bootleg of an Illusion set — all welcome.

[email protected]