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--work #
Optimizely | Site Reliability Engineer # - present
August 2021 - present | Berlin, Germany
I help keep production services stable and work on their performance and capacity as they grow. I use Puppet for configuration management, Jenkins for CI/CD and Proxmox for virtualisation. I also work with VLANs and Fortinet FortiGate firewalls to manage routing and access between environments.
In 2026, I set up 25 new Dell PowerEdge servers for production, including their PXE mappings and integration into the existing environment. I also work in the data centre, replacing hardware, cabling servers and troubleshooting problems.
I review CVEs and patch affected systems. I'm also on call for a week every five weeks, handling incidents outside regular working hours.
Spinae | Intern #
February 2021 - June 2021 | Lochristi, Belgium
I compared identity provider options and deployed FreeIPA to manage user identities and policies centrally. I also set up Confluence for internal documentation.
Inuits | DevOps Engineer # -
June 2019 - October 2020 | Ghent, Belgium
I worked on embedded infrastructure for a customer, using Ansible and Puppet to automate Linux configuration and deployments.
I used Mender for remote device updates and the Elastic Stack for logs, alongside Grafana and GitLab.
The Last Mile | Intern #
February 2019 - June 2019 | Dendermonde, Belgium
I built and deployed a FreePBX server on openSUSE for the Dendermonde police. I also worked on other VoIP projects and helped design secure IT infrastructure for local government.
--homelab #
I run several Proxmox hosts for my personal services. I use Terraform to deploy LXC containers and virtual machines on the cluster, and Ansible to deploy and configure the services. An ELK stack, Telegraf and Grafana handle logs and monitoring. I also run Home Assistant and a small Kubernetes setup. Early this year, I implemented certificate lifecycle automation with HashiCorp Vault. This replaced the long-lived static certificates I was using before and brought certificate management into my existing Ansible setup.
HISTORY #
Education
2024: Master's Degree in Privacy, Information and Cyber Security, University of Skövde.
Master's thesis
Energy efficiency in AES encryption on ARM Cortex CPUs
For my master's thesis, I studied how encryption choices affect energy use on ARM processors. I compared different AES encryption modes, key lengths and data sizes.
2021: Bachelor's Degree in Infrastructure Engineering, Howest.
Bachelor's thesis
Using HashiCorp Nomad as an alternative to Kubernetes
I built a Nomad test environment and explored how it compared with Kubernetes, including deployment through GitLab CI/CD and integration with HashiCorp Vault.
2019: Associate Degree in Network Infrastructure, Howest.
OPEN SOURCE #
I built a set of plugins for fooyin, an open-source music player. These fill gaps I missed coming from MusicBee, and work on both Linux and Windows.
fooyin-managed-library #
A plugin that automatically organizes music files on disk when tags change. Hooks into fooyin's MusicLibrary event system and AudioLoader for real-time tag detection, with background file operations and crash recovery via a journaled write-ahead log.
fooyin-renumber-tracks #
Adds a drag-drop renumber dialog to fooyin's context menu. Tracks are grouped by disc, each renumbering independently. Tracks can be moved between discs to reassign them.
fooyin-copy-paste-artwork #
Copy embedded cover artwork from one track and paste it onto others. Uses fooyin's AudioLoader to read covers and the writeTrackCovers API to write them back.
LANGUAGES #
Dutch/Flemish
Native.
English
Professionally fluent.
IELTS overall band score: 7.5 (very good).
German
A2, currently learning.