Summary
Jeffrey Descan is a Kubernetes Platform Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and automating resilient infrastructure from Belgium. He has progressed from student and trainee operations roles to leading platform and R&D efforts, specializing in Kubernetes administration, GitOps, Helm, multiple container runtimes, and an "Automation First" approach using Ansible and Python. Jeffrey brings deep operational expertise across HAProxy, Nginx, MySQL, Redis, VMware and Cloudflare, and routinely handles fourth-line escalations and complex Linux service incidents. He has a track record of improving internal tooling and deployments (GitLab, Airflow, Grafana, custom APIs) to streamline both customer and internal workflows. Now at Sofico after roles at Sentia/Accenture and Harmoney, he blends pragmatic ops experience with architecture-level thinking to deliver production-grade platforms. Outside the obvious, his career shows consistent growth from datacenter hands-on work to platform engineering and R&D leadership, reflecting strong persistence and follow-through on long-term projects.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science New Media and Communication Technology, Bachelor of Computer Science New Media and Communication Technology at HOWEST Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen