Chris Vancoillie
Systems Administrator
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Vancoillie is a systems administrator with over a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining high-performance web server architectures for WordPress and media platforms. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, he combines formal training in computer systems, PLC programming and clinical/biomedical engineering with ongoing Linux Professional Institute studies. His career path spans industrial PLC work and project administration to long-term operational roles at LightSpeed and FeedMyMedia, reflecting a practical blend of engineering discipline and IT reliability. Outside IT he brings coaching and sport science credentials, an unusual cross-disciplinary background that informs his collaborative, performance-focused approach to systems work. Known for a deep interest in networking and internet-scale administration, he focuses on stability, efficiency and measurable uptime improvements.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
LPI (Linux Professional Institute), LPI (Linux Professional Institute) at Linux HoldingsWorcester GymnasiumUniversity of PretoriaUniversity of South AfricaND: Engineering: Computer Systems, ND: Engineering: Computer Systems at Cape Peninsula University of TechnologyGrade 4 - 7, Grade 4 - 7 at Worcester Primary SchoolSenior Cycling Coaching, Senior Cycling Coaching at ABCC (Association of British Cycling Coaches)
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (152)
dashboard10
displays10
statsd10
postgresql10
grafana10
wordpress-block10
influxdb10
monitoring10
wordpress10
linux10
graphite10
data-visualization10
graphing10
database10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lightspeedwp/to-vehicles
Jul 2019 - Mar 2022
To help convince travellers of their comfort and safety when traveling with you, we’ve created the Vehicles extension so that you can fill in your fleets’ specs
Contributions:3 PRs, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
travelingconvince-travellersfilltour-operatorspecs
lightspeedwp/woocommerce-subscriptions-date-based-downloads
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
Ideal for selling digital subscriptions that run on a monthly billing cycle. Downloadable files are permanently available for the months when your subscriber's account was active.
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes in 1 year 1 month
monthsqbcore-frameworkidealwordpressmls
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