Thijs Feryn
Technical Evangelist at Conferences
Diksmuide, West Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolThijs Feryn is a seasoned Technical Evangelist with 13 years of experience shaping developer experiences and product narratives across hosting, infrastructure, and media delivery. As a Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software since 2019, he helps accelerate websites, APIs, and streaming services by blending open-source flexibility with enterprise robustness. He is a published O’Reilly author and an international conference speaker with 370+ talks in 25 countries, a role that complements his work as a community liaison and evangelist at Combell and Sentia. Based in Diksmuide, Belgium, Thijs has led community initiatives (PHPBenelux board and conference organizing) and earned credentials such as Zend Certified PHP 5 engineer. He combines a hands-on technical background with a passion for travel and storytelling (vlogger and traveler) and excels at translating complex infrastructure topics into practical guidance.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High Impact Presentations, High Impact Presentations at Dale Carnegie BeneluxBachelor's degree, Computer sciences, Bachelor's degree, Computer sciences at KATHO KortrijkZend Certified PHP 5 engineer, Zend Certified PHP 5 engineer, Zend Certified PHP 5 engineer, Zend Certified PHP 5 engineer at Zend Certified PHP 5 engineerCollege DiksmuideFinnish, Finnish at Ghent UniversityBachelor, IT, Bachelor, IT at Pohjois-Karjalan Ammattikorkeakoulu JoensuuMotivational coaching, Motivational coaching at Linkpower
Dutch, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (125)
truth10
reverse-proxy10
redis-sentinel10
http10
magento210
adobe10
magento10
armv610
varnish10
high-performance10
buildkit10
affiliates10
caching10
docker10
ecommerce10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ThijsFeryn/varnishtraining
Jun 2013 - Apr 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 11 months
vagrantboxvagrant-boxansibletraining
ThijsFeryn/phpversions.info
Dec 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
hostsphpphp-versions
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