Guus Van Weelden
Chapter Lead at MOIA
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolGuus Van Weelden is a seasoned DevOps and back-end engineer with 11 years of experience, currently leading a chapter at MOIA in Hamburg where he balances technical delivery with team leadership. He has deep hands-on expertise in cloud-native tooling and Kubernetes, exemplified by contributions to popular projects like popeye (adding S3 export and AWS SDK integrations) and Kubermatic (implementing cluster upgrade logic and improving API tests). As GDG Go & Cloud Hamburg Lead and an active Gopher, he blends Go proficiency with pragmatic infrastructure automation. Colleagues rely on him for refactoring brittle codebases into maintainable, testable systems and for shipping production-ready cloud integrations. Beyond day-to-day engineering, he brings an organizer’s mindset to the community—combining technical stewardship with coaching and cross-team collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Assistent für Informatik, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Assistent für Informatik, Wirtschaftsinformatik at Private Berufsfachschule PTL WedelFachhochschule Wedel
English, French
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Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
apidoc10
testing10
cicd10
go10
api10
aws10
amazon-s310
kubernetes-pods10
aws-s310
golang10
k8s10
s3-bucket10
refactoring9
cluster-api9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
derailed/popeye
Apr 2019 - Feb 2020
👀 A Kubernetes cluster resource sanitizer
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 10 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Guus primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of the Popeye tool. Their work included refactoring existing code for improved maintainability and introducing features for saving and exporting results to S3 buckets. They also focused on setting up S3 integration, which involved adding flags to the command-line interface and modifying the codebase to interact with AWS services. These modifications included adding dependency on the AWS SDK for Go.
golangkubernetes-deploymentkubernetes-clusterssanitizerk8s
kubermatic/kubermatic
Apr 2017 - Jan 2019
Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform - the Central Kubernetes Management Platform For Any Infrastructure
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Guus primarily focused on refactoring and improving the existing API handler tests, replacing status codes with constants and removing redundant calls. They also contributed to the implementation of cluster upgrades by adding routes, handler skeletons, and the necessary upgrade logic. Furthermore, the user made changes to improve code quality, such as using `buf.String()` and using `deep.Equal` for comparisons, and updated dependencies.
kubermatic-kubernetes-platformkubermaticcluster-apiinfrastructurek8s
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