Kenneth Hoste
System Administrator
Belgium
Summary
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RockstarKenneth Hoste is an HPC-focused software engineer and system administrator with 14 years' experience, currently Work Package Leader at MultiXscale and HPC system administrator at Ghent University. As lead developer and release manager of EasyBuild he blends backend development, packaging and DevOps—maintaining easyconfigs/easyblocks, bootstrapping scripts and Lmod integration—to keep scientific software reproducible and compatible with modern toolchains. His open-source work spans documentation, build tooling and Python examples, showing a pragmatic balance of code quality, user experience and operational reliability. He routinely smooths upgrade paths by fixing compilation and module-cache issues so researchers can run complex numerical and ML workflows reliably. An attention-to-detail trait not obvious from titles: he also tidies course notebooks and examples (e.g., a quantum ML MOOC) to prevent runtime warnings and ensure reproducible teaching material.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
2,906reputation
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69answers
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glibc
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shared-libraries
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Github Skills (55)
git10
richeditor10
c-language10
documentations10
restructuredtext10
rich-text10
compilation10
python10
package-management10
ebuild10
scikit10
versioncontrol10
bash10
terminal-emulator10
dev-ops10
Programming languages (34)
Github contributions (5)
easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs
Oct 2012 - Jan 2023
A collection of easyconfig files that describe which software to build using which build options with EasyBuild.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:32 releases, 4124 reviews, 17004 commits in 10 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth appears to have focused on making core modifications to the code base, as evidenced by their commit messages showing changes to include standard headers. The user's commits indicate that the user is working on source code and has fixed issues to ensure compilation against more recent toolchains and other dependency version changes..
pythondescribecpplinuxscientific-software
easybuilders/easybuild
Aug 2012 - Jan 2023
EasyBuild - building software with ease
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 releases, 70 reviews, 1918 commits in 10 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth's contributions focused on modifying the documentation of the EasyBuild project. The commits primarily involve editing and structuring the documentation to reflect changes, incorporate new features, and clarify existing content. This work indicates an involvement in improving the user experience of the project by ensuring that the documentation is accurate and up-to-date.
pythoncppwindowslinuxscientific-software
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