Ivo Toby
Podcast Host at Contentful
North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolIvo Toby is a seasoned engineering leader and podcast host with over two decades in web development, security, and DevOps, currently shaping AI integrations and MLOps at Contentful. He founded and ran I-V-O from 2005 to 2018, giving him broad hands-on experience across backend, frontend, hosting and infrastructure that informs his pragmatic architecture and coaching style. As a former secure development lead and CSSLP-trained practitioner, he blends security-first thinking with a developer-friendly approach to shipping robust systems. Ivo has led and mentored teams for the past seven years, known for helping junior engineers grow while keeping a calm, big-picture view during complex projects. He also hosts the Dutch CodeKlets podcast, translating engineering and AI topics into engaging conversations for the developer community. Based in North Holland, he balances deep technical curiosity—now focused on vector databases and prompt engineering—with an unexpectedly playful side (he builds dog-petting devices in his spare time).
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Beta, Beta at VWO
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Github Skills (169)
google-analytics10
hosting10
appstoreconnect10
shared10
cloudinary10
monorepo10
gatsby10
netlify10
shopify10
marketplace10
dropbox10
jira10
smartling10
capistrano10
contentful10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
meisterplayer/ui-htmlui
Jun 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:15 PRs, 46 pushes, 15 branches in 9 months
elementspreconfigured
ivo-toby/contentful-mcp
Dec 2024 - Apr 2025
MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for the Contentful Management API
Contributions:2 reviews, 37 PRs, 55 pushes in 3 months
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