Gert Van Gool
Senior Software Engineer at Phyx bvba
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolGert Van Gool is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building backend systems and operational platforms for OTT, telecom and mobile services. He has co-founded companies and run his own consultancy, blending hands-on engineering with system design and site reliability across Django, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis and distributed storage like Ceph. At Zattoo and Green Streams he modernized middleware for global streaming deployments, and his open-source fixes to django-storages improved S3 stability and URL handling. Comfortable switching between product development and ops, he has a track record of architecting CDN/caching layers and migrating platforms to ganeti/KVM. Based in Vancouver, he brings a pragmatic founder’s mindset to scaling resilient services and solving thorny integration problems.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
ASO, Wetenschappen wiskunde, ASO, Wetenschappen wiskunde at Sint Jozef Instituut EssenSummer school Business and English, Summer school Business and English at The University of SalfordBachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Hasselt University
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Github Skills (12)
boto10
back-end-development10
python10
django10
aws9
dry6
asynchronous6
tastypie6
celery6
dictionary6
django-views6
fileio6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
jschneier/django-storages
Feb 2010 - Feb 2010
https://django-storages.readthedocs.io/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Gert focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the django-storages project. Their contributions involved correcting errors, adding bucket location support, and improving the way files are handled within the S3BotoStorage backend. These changes aimed to improve the stability and performance of the S3 integration. Furthermore, the user addressed an import typo and modified the URL generation to handle missing keys.
pythondjango-frameworkdjango-storagesdjangostorages
gvangool/mptsd
Sep 2015 - Mar 2024
mptsd receives mpegts streams from udp/multicast or http and combines them into one multiple program stream that is suitable for outputing to DVB-C modulator. It is tested with Dektec DTE-3114 Quad QAM Modulator and it is used in production in couple of small DVB-C networks.
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 7 branches in 8 years 7 months
mdnscouplemulticastin-productiondns-sd
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