Description
I’ve been designing and writing software since May 2005.
Work Experience
Dec 2022 – Present
Spectro Cloud – www.spectrocloud.com
Working on Kairos, the immutable Linux meta-distribution
for edge Kubernetes.
Go, Linux
Apr 2020 – Dec 2022
Ring Twice – ringtwice.be
Reporting to CTO/Founder, leading a team of engineers and working on the main web application and mobile API.
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Heroku, AWS S3, AWS Cloud Front, AWS EC2, PostgreSQL, Nginx, Ansible, GitHub Actions
Apr 2019 – Dec 2019
Cloud Bees – www.cloudbees.com
Worked on the main web app and runtime of CodeShip CI and the CLI application for Jenkins X.
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, LXC, Heroku, PostgreSQL, Go, Docker
May 2018–Mar 2019
Babbel – www.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
SUSE – www.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 School – www.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 Works – creativeworks.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
Telefónica – www.telefonica.com
Part of the team building and maintaining the Data Warehouse. Automation of reports for upper management.
Oracle DB, PL/SQL
Open-Source Projects
These are some open-source projects I’ve had the chance to participate in:
- github.com/kairos-io/kairos
- github.com/jenkins-x/jx
- github.com/codeship/bitbucket
- github.com/codeship/omniauth-bitbucket
- github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-linux-stemcell-builder
- github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh
- github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-openstack-cpi-release
- github.com/SUSE/machinery
- github.com/SUSE/pennyworth
- github.com/LAS-IT/formstack-api
Public Speaking
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.