Ike Devolder
Dev Ops Yaml Developer With Some Go To Python at Archlinux
Bruges Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolIke Devolder is a pragmatic DevOps-focused engineer with 15 years of experience, currently automating delivery and quality at Belgium’s largest hosting provider, Combell. He specializes in scripting and tooling—PHP, Python, shell, Ansible and YAML—plus some Go, and is known around teams as the resident git expert who streamlines repetitive ops work. A committed open source maintainer and Arch Linux Trusted User, he also contributes stability fixes to notable projects like Pimcore and the Vim Vdebug debugger. Beyond engineering, he enjoys public speaking and training, using discussions to surface practical improvements across teams. His background in electronics and long-running packaging work means he bridges low-level system understanding with everyday developer productivity.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Electronics,Informatics,Programming, Bachelor, Electronics,Informatics,Programming at Katholieke Hogeschool Zuid-West-Vlaanderen
Dutch, English, French, German
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Github Skills (13)
debugging10
debug10
php10
cms10
vim-plugin10
python10
ecommerce10
pimcore10
vimscript10
symfony9
symfony-ux9
databases8
database8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
vim-vdebug/vdebug
Apr 2014 - Nov 2021
Multi-language DBGP debugger client for Vim (PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 182 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ike primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Vdebug debugger, focusing on improving its stability and feature set. They implemented changes related to buffer handling and window management within the Vim environment. Their work involved fixing issues, such as buffer deletion and handling detached connections, ensuring a better user experience. These commits also include general code cleanup, such as encoding improvements, and improved the overall reliability of the debugger.
pythonvimmulti-languagedbgpphp
pimcore/pimcore
Aug 2016 - Jun 2019
Core Framework for the Open Source Data & Experience Management Platform (PIM, MDM, CDP, DAM, DXP/CMS & Digital Commerce)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ike primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the stability and maintainability of the Pimcore framework. Their work included addressing issues in the e-commerce maintenance process, ensuring compatibility with different DateTime implementations and resolving errors in the admin login functionality. Additionally, the user modified the code to align with upgrades, and addressed issues related to Symfony bundles.
cmsdata-experienceecommerceshopwaredxp
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