About

Description

I started working as a software developer in 2005, and over the years, I’ve had the privilege to be part of some outstanding companies like SUSE, CodeShip, Babbel, and others. Today, I’m proudly serving as an Open-Source Specialist at Spectro Cloud, where I’m part of the Kairos team building a Linux meta-distribution for edge Kubernetes.

Work Experience

Dec 2022 – Present

Spectro Cloudwww.spectrocloud.com

Operating system for Edge Kubernetes

Kairos is an immutable Linux meta-distribution for edge Kubernetes

  • Go
  • Linux
Apr 2020 – Dec 2022

Ring Twiceringtwice.be

Backend web application and infrastructure

Performance improvements, architectural changes, maintenance to the main web backend application and reduction of tech-debt

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Heroku
  • AWS S3, Cloud Front and EC2
  • PostgreSQL
  • Ansible
Agile methodologies and team mentoring

Put in place agile methodologies and software developer best practices.

  • Scrum
  • TDD/BDD
  • CI/CD
Apr 2019 – Dec 2019

Cloud Beeswww.cloudbees.com

CodeShip CI

Maintenance of the SaaS CodeShip CI and the traditional runtime environment using buildpacks

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Heroku
  • PostgreSQL
  • LXC 
Jenkins X

Improve test coverage and add features of the Jenkins X CLI

  • Go
  • Docker
May 2018–Mar 2019

Babbelwww.babbel.com

Built an internal CMS for the marketing team.

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Go, Jekyll, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, AWS S3

Apr 2015–Apr 2018

SUSEwww.suse.com

Worked on tooling for Linux servers on the Machinery project. I was part of the European Cloud Foundry BOSH Team, working mainly on the Cloud Provider Interface for OpenStack.

Linux, Ruby, Docker, OpenStack, Cloud Foundry

Aug 2012–Jan 2015

Leysin American Schoolwww.las.ch

Worked on configuration management for a fleet of Apple computers, plugins for the internal ticketing system and built a tracking application.

Ruby, Sinatra, OS X, Linux, Redmine, Ruby on Rails

Aug 2009–Sep 2012

Creative Workscreativeworks.us

Built and maintained an online shopping cart for paper products for our main customer 4over4.

PHP, CodeIngiter, jQuery, MySQL, Apache2, Linux

May 2005–Jul 2009

Telefónicawww.telefonica.com

Part of the team building and maintaining the Data Warehouse. Automation of reports for upper management.

Oracle DB, PL/SQL

Public Speaking

Hacktoberfest in brussels

Organized a Hacktoberfest event in Brussels to share about how to get introduced in Open-Source and did some mob programming.

How we build and maintain Kairos

DevConf.cz 2023 – Brno, Czech Republic

Presentation about the challenges of Edge computing and how Kairos tries to solve them. Talk about each major feature and how we put the entire OS together with container technology.

How we build and maintain Kairos

FOSDEM 2023 – Brussels, Belgium

Presentation about the challenges of Edge computing and how Kairos tries to solve them. Talk about each major feature and how we put the entire OS together with container technology.

A Guided Tour of Machinery

openSUSE Conference 2016 – Nuremberg, Germany

A detailed description of how to use Machinery to inspect a Linux server and re-generate it.

The Universal System Description

FOSDEM 2016 – Brussels, Belgium

What if there was a way to describe a Linux system, no matter its distribution?

Dockerizing Your Infrastructure With Machinery

LinuxCon Europe 2015 – Dublin, Ireland

Containers are the future, but many of our systems are still running on traditional servers. Machinery can help you convert a system to Docker containers.

Machinery, a System Management Toolkit for Linux

Linuxdays 2015 – Prague, Check Republic

What is a system management toolkit? And how can it help you?

Studies

I did about half of the Computer Science courses before I dropped out of university. I’ve been self-taught ever since.

Want to Work Together?

I’m currently not openly looking for a new job, but I’d be willing to hear about an interesting offer. You are welcome to email me or message me on LinkedIn.