Resume

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 Cloud – www.spectrocloud.com

Operating system for Edge Kubernetes

Kairos is an immutable Linux meta-distribution for edge Kubernetes

Go
Linux

Apr 2020 – Dec 2022

Ring Twice – ringtwice.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 Bees – www.cloudbees.com

CodeShip CI

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

Ruby on Rails
Heroku
PostgreSQL
LXC
AWS Lambda
AWS Step Functions

Jenkins X

Improve test coverage and add features of the Jenkins X CLI

Go
Docker

May 2018 – Mar 2019

Babbel – www.babbel.com

CMS for marketing

Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Go
Jekyll
AWS Lambda
AWS S3

Apr 2015 – Apr 2018

SUSE – www.suse.com

Cloud Foundry

Core member of the European BOSH team working mainly on the CPI (Cloud Provider Interface) for OpenStack

Ruby
RSpec
OpenStack
BOSH

Machinery

Machinery was a toolbox for introspection of Linux systems

Ruby
RSpec
Linux
Go

Aug 2012 – Jan 2015

Leysin American School – www.las.ch

Configuration Management

Ruby
Sinatra
OS X
Linux
Puppet
Redmine

Aug 2009 – Sep 2012

Creative Works – creativeworks.us

e-Commerce solution for printing

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

PHP
CodeIgniter
jQuery
MySQL
Apache2
Linux

May 2005 – Jul 2009

Telefónica – www.telefonica.com

DataWarehouse for Guatemala & El Salvador

Part of the team building and maintaining the Data Warehouse.

Built a system to automate reports for upper management.

Oracle DB
PL/SQL
Unix

Open-Source Projects

These are some open-source projects I’ve had the chance to participate in:

Public Speaking

Special Purpose Operating Systems: The Next Step in OS Evolution or One-Trick Ponies?

A panel about special purpose operating systems

KubeCon EU 2024 – Paris, France

Hacktoberfest 2023 in Brussels

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

How we build and maintain Kairos

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.

DevConf.cz 2023 – Brno, Czech Republic
FOSDEM 2023 – Brussels, Belgium

A Guided Tour of Machinery

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

openSUSE Conference 2016 – Nuremberg, Germany

The Universal System Description

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

FOSDEM 2016 – Brussels, Belgium

Dockerizing Your Infrastructure With Machinery

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.

LinuxCon Europe 2015 – Dublin, Ireland

Machinery, a System Management Toolkit for Linux

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

Linuxdays 2015 – Prague, Check Republic

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.