Andy Loafoe
Platform Engineer Evangelist
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Loafoe is a platform engineer evangelist based in Amsterdam with 17 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and developer tooling. He blends hands-on systems work—Golang, Kubernetes, Terraform, Crossplane, Argo CD—with developer advocacy at Philips' HealthSuite Digital Platform, helping teams ship connected healthcare solutions. His background spans release engineering, senior Ruby development and platform leadership, giving him a rare mix of legacy app integration and modern infra automation expertise. Andy is an active open-source contributor, notably improving HashiCorp Consul’s configuration and API ergonomics to boost deployment flexibility. Colleagues rely on him to translate operational constraints into pragmatic platform features and documentation. He pairs deep technical breadth with a knack for making complex infrastructure consumable for product teams.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Informatica, Informatica at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (19)
api-design10
command-line-interface10
configuration-management10
consul10
go10
service-discovery10
command-line10
cli10
kubernetes9
kubernetes-pods9
webserver6
shell6
android6
iphone6
bash6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on modifying Consul's agent configuration and command-line interface. Their contributions include adding an option to configure the HTTP API port, updating the configuration handling to use the defined port, and documenting the new configuration option. Additionally, the user made changes to propagate an authentication token within the UI, suggesting some interaction with the front-end or UI components. This work demonstrates improvements to Consul's core functionality and usability, particularly related to deployment flexibility.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
loafoe/terraform-backend-hsdp
Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
Store Terraform state on HSDP
Contributions:101 commits, 53 PRs, 84 pushes in 2 years
terraformterraform-providerterraform-statehsdp
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