Jan Van Uytven
Staff Production Engineer at Change.org
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolJan Van Uytven is a Staff Production Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently leading reliability and Kubernetes adoption at Change.org. He specializes in AWS, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes, and has driven migrations from EC2/Chef to EKS/Terraform while maintaining complex data stores like Cassandra and multi-engine Aurora clusters. Comfortable in languages from Bash and Ruby to Go and Rust, Jan combines deep systems troubleshooting with build- and CI/CD-oriented automation, having rebuilt Jenkins pipelines and containerized build environments. His background spans academia-grade HPC clusters to enterprise CI farms, reflecting a penchant for pragmatic infrastructure-as-code and reproducible builds. Based in Victoria, BC, he brings a mix of long-term operational memory and continual hands-on modernization experience that quietly reduces toil and risk.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering at University of ManitobaBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Physics, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Physics at CEGEP - John Abbott College
English, French
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Github Skills (86)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ysgard/GoGLutils
Apr 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:25 commits in 11 months
ysgard/d-struct
May 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:119 commits, 9 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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