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 Developer 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 during KubeCon EU 2024 in Paris, France
Rethinking some common deployment strategies

Talk to encourage putting some critical eyes to some of the different deployment strategies and team habits, encouraging the audience to evaluate where they can optimize their existing systems and methods. Delivered at devs.gent meetup in Ghent, Belgium
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.
Meet Kairos, the linux meta distribution for edge

Introduction to Kairos at DevConf.cz 2023 in Brno, Czech Republic
Kairos libp2p

Demo showing how easy it is to bootstrap a Kubernetes cluster over the network utilizing Kairos libp2p and AuroraBoot.
How we build and maintain Kairos

Overview about all major features of Kairos and how we put the entire OS together with container technology. Delivered at FOSDEM 2023 in Brussels, Belgium
A Guided Tour of Machinery

A detailed description of how to use Machinery to inspect a Linux server and re-generate it at openSUSE Conference 2016 in Nuremberg, Germany
The Universal System Description

What if there was a way to describe a Linux system, no matter its distribution? Distributions Dev room during FOSDEM 2016 in 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 in Dublin, Ireland
Machinery – A System Management Toolkit for Linux

What is a system management toolkit? And how can it help you? Delivered at LinuxDays 2015 in Prague, Czech 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 the right offer. If you have something interesting, you are welcome to email me or message me on LinkedIn.