Bert De Jonghe
Sr. Software Engineer at Linux Belgium
Lochristi, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolBert De Jonghe is a senior system software engineer with 10+ years of focused experience in Linux, virtualization, storage and cloud technologies, currently driving low-level systems work at Linux Belgium. His career spans embedded and systems roles at companies like Amplidata, Open vStorage/CloudFounders and Sun/Oracle, reflecting deep C/C++ and virtualization expertise across both product and infrastructure projects. Bert excels at bridging hardware and software concerns—designing resilient storage and virtualization components and shipping pragmatic solutions in constrained embedded environments. Known for pragmatic engineering ("smart enough to make IT work; crazy enough to try"), he combines strong academic roots from Katholieke Hogeschool 'Sint-Lieven' with a long track record of maintaining production-grade open systems. Based in Lochristi, Belgium, he brings steady, hands-on technical leadership and a preference for practical open-source toolchains.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Katholieke Hogeschool 'Sint-Lieven', Gent
Github Skills (35)
docker8
eagle8
api8
raid8
golang8
rdma7
storage7
high-performance6
go6
nvme6
inotify6
container6
ecosystem6
backend5
alternate5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openvstorage/docker-tools
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 months
docker-imagedockerdocker-imagesinside-docker
openvstorage/volumedriver-buildtools
Oct 2015 - Jul 2017
Scripts and (modified) thirdparty code required to build the Open vStorage VolumeDriver.
Contributions:7 PRs, 28 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 8 months
inotifyeaglemodifiedmoddingbuild-automation
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