Vincent Van Gestel

Contact · +32 468 14 51 39 · vincent@vvgit.be

Hi, I'm an enthusiastic computer engineer active in the fascinating world of DevOps. As an experienced DevOps engineer, I've been in both the developer and operations seat and I'm familiar with the problems and struggles both sides face on a day-to-day basis (slow builds, integration nightmares, deployment anxiety, ...). I personally love figuring out how a large system operates (be it either code or a workflow) and replacing any slow, manual processes with nifty automations, pipelines and bots. It is always a great joy to be able to improve the workflow of myself and my fellow colleagues. In doing so, everyone can focus on the things that matter. Interested? Get in touch if you are looking for an efficient consultant who enjoys ripping through large codebases, setup custom pipelines and CI/CD processes, and can keep everyone up to speed with kick-ass presentations.

Portfolio

Migrating Legacy App to AWS in 5 Different ways
Last updated 23/12/2021
Webinar - Applying DevOps in embedded systems
Last updated 18/10/2021
Building this website
Last updated 8/10/2021

Skills

Programming Languages
  • Python
  • Bash
  • Node.js
  • C
  • C++
  • Java
  • Ruby
Cloud Technologies
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Openstack
  • Docker
  • Podman
  • Amazon AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Nginx
Environments & Other Tools
  • Linux
  • Git
  • Bitbucket
  • Gitlab CI
  • Jenkins
  • Ansible
  • Puppet
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Consul
  • Vagrant
  • Vim
  • AEM
Expertise
  • DevOps
  • Cloud computing
  • Linux
  • Python development
  • UML, Software design and architecture

Experience

AWS Cloud System Engineer

VRT

Managing AWS infrastructure at scale for a major radio, television and on demand streaming provider in Belgium. Performing site reliability engineering tasks to effectively build, deploy and monitor many development and production services. Coaching other engineers to apply best practices regarding DevOps.

  • Provided AWS/Operations expertise to multiple large teams
  • Audited infrastructure and processes to offer improvements regarding efficiency, scalability, maintainability and cost
  • Managed complex infrastructure for AEM (Adobe Experience Manager), websites and services on AWS
  • Created tools, pipelines and templates to improve coherence and unify development processes
January 2022 - Present

DevOps Automation & CI/CD development

Soft At Home

Maintaining infrastructure (Kubernetes) to host Jenkins and Gitlab CI pipelines. Optimizing pipelines to be perfomant for developers. Developing Python tools for fully automated integration of components and supporting multiple buildsystems seamlessly.

  • Managed complex pipelines for multiple projects
  • Created tools to seamlessly support multiple buildsystems
  • Created tools for automated processing of git repos (integration)
July 2019 - December 2021

Software Development & Automated Testing

Soft At Home

Implementing features, fixing bugs and overall improving quality of a large legacy codebase by introducing automated testing. The chosen testframework was based on pytest, with a custom in-house developed library to ease the test writer's life creating tests to run on embedded targets as well as locally on x86.

  • Analyzed a large codebase
  • Contributed to a new testing framework
November 2018 - July 2019

Cloud Based Testing

Nokia

Short, POC project migrating from a complicated local test environment to a massively scalable, cloud based test environment on Kubernetes. The Kubernetes clusters were dynamic and automatically provisioned on top of a massive Openstack cluster.

  • Provided Kubernetes expertise
2018

Full Stack Deployment for CI/CD

IMAS/Van Genechten Packaging

Deployed Kubernetes on top of bare metal servers using Maas/Juju. Improved developer workflow with a custom tailored CI/CD pipeline setup.

  • Complete from the ground up deployment of Kubernetes
  • Managed infrastructure, cloud software and CI/CD pipeline
2018

Education

KU Leuven

Master of Engineering: Computer Science
Specialized in Distributed Systems

Graduated Magna Cum Laude

September 2015 - August 2017

KU Leuven

Bachelor of Science in Informatics

Graduated Cum Laude

September 2012 - August 2015