Main Garmin ConnectIQ developer, helping Stryd implementing new features in their Garmin datafield.

• Hired based on my open-source work on RunPowerWorkout
• Part-time contract, maximum 25 hours per month.

Design and/or implement cloud architectures for customers in various industries such as Finance (Bank Delen, KBC), Pharmaceuticals (UCB), Government (FedPol), Food and Beverages (AB InBev, Puratos), amongst others. Built solutions using the three major public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP). Involvement ranges from short-term cloud engineering hands-on role, to large end-to-end cloud architectures.

Provide support for colleagues in other projects regarding cloud architecture, devops principles and tools or low-level infrastructure debugging.

Lead of an 8 persons team, coaching and guiding them in their career path. Instructor in the internal academy, teaching twice a year topics such as “Security in the Cloud” or “Hands-On Kubernetes”.

In-house DevOps evangelist. Goal of the chapter is to help adoption of DevOps culture and practices across teams and ensures they can become as autonomous as possible during the lifecycle of their applications

• Responsible for 3 DevOps engineers. Together, working hand in hand with teams to identify pain points and remove them.
• Member of the IT Architecture Board, alongside the CIO and other IT leads, designing together the future of the company’s technological stack.

Design and implementation of a modern hybrid cloud platform, self-manageable by developers. Grew from a single person ”PoC size” project to an AWS multi-account structure with multiple production workloads and a team of 5 persons over the course of 18 months.

• Based on Kubernetes (EKS/OpenShift)
• Self documented and auditable with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• CI/CD with Gitlab, integrated with JIRA, SonarQube and Nexus through custom gateways. Homemade library of pipelines blocks and application templates for quick bootstrap.
• Offers services by default, with zero configuration needed from the developers: monitoring (Dynatrace), logging (CloudWatch/EFK), service mesh (Istio).
• Built following the best practices from AWS, RedHat and independant advisors.

Maintenance and improvements of the Linux environment.

Cross-departement collaboration to help improve the deployment of digital team applications.

Shipping of new applications is now fully working with Ansible.

Definition and implementation of a patch management procedure, based on RedHat satellite and Ansible.

Bridge between security and infrastructure, helping the CISO to install, configure and manage security systems in Keytrade’s infrastructure. Various works on innovative projects for the infrastructure team.

• Modernization and consolidation of the VMware environment
• Bridge building between development and infrastructure teams (”DevOps” mentality): evangelization of automation, creation of Ansible playbooks, automated build through JIRA
• Consolidation of the log infrastructure
• Replacement of Nagios by Icinga and Grafana Dashboards
• Many security systems implementation (user traffic proxy, vulnerability scanner, IAM)