Antoine Van Serveyt, happiest when a business runs better because of something I built.
What I am after is a place in your project rather than a seat beside it: to learn what you are building, ship it with you, and still be there while it grows.
Breaking systems teaches you what happens when one is attacked. Administering them, which is where the training started, teaches you what happens when one is left alone for three years. Building them means answering both this quarter: the delivery pipeline, the machines under it, and the simple shape hiding inside a complicated workflow.
Why avanserv exists
To build what a business depends on, keep it running once it is live, and keep widening what that covers.
It started from two situations I kept running into. Some companies were losing time to development processes that did not work. Others needed their infrastructure run properly and could not justify hiring a full-time team to do it.
Years as a consultant and as a team lead taught me where a process earns its place and where it only costs time, so part of the work is adding what is missing and removing what is in the way. The other part is sizing: reading what a business needs and expects, and scaling the resources it runs on to match.
- Legal entity
- Avanserv SRL
- BE 1019.087.245
- Registered office
- Rue du Vieux Fermier 6 5100 Namur (Wierde), Belgium
The name is mine, contracted: the a of Antoine and the vanserv of Van Serveyt. The company was founded in Namur in January 2025.
The logo is the a of avanserv followed by a chevron pointing forward: a company that keeps moving forward with you.
Where the experience comes from
Studies, work, and a great deal of experimenting in my home lab alongside both.
Administering
2014 to 2017
Hénallux
Bachelor's degree, networks and systems
Administering systems, which is where the training started. The thesis was on defending a phone network against eavesdropping.
Breaking
2017 to 2019
EY
Cybersecurity consultant
Penetration testing and security assessments: breaking systems before they went live.
Building
2019 to 2026
Odoo
Developer to team lead, client solutions
Custom development for customers whose business Odoo did not fit out of the box, then leading a team of developers: reviewing their code, releasing it to production, and training customers and partners.
All three
Since 2025
avanserv
Founder
The practice this site describes, started while I was still at Odoo.
Having me on your team
Your business
I take the time to understand your business, so what I suggest is a solution tailored to it rather than a request carried out to the letter.
Best value
I challenge your needs and weigh the alternatives to find the most suitable solution at the lowest price, now and in the long run. When custom development is not the right answer, I say so.
Ownership
What I build for you is yours once it is paid for, and anything of mine inside it comes with a perpetual licence to use it. The repository is agreed when the project is scoped, my tooling supplements yours rather than replacing it, and the code and its documentation are written for the day your team runs it without me.
Security included
Two years of penetration testing does not switch off: everything I hand over has been read for how it could be broken, at no extra cost.
Start with the problem, not with the proposal
A written scope comes back within two working days, with its assumptions and its exclusions stated. It costs nothing, and it is yours whether or not you hire me.
Tell me about your project, or the problem you want solved.
Or write to info@avanserv.com, and I will come back to you with a scope.