Jelmer Snoeck
Founding Engineer at Keycard Labs
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJelmer Snoeck is a cloud-native founding engineer with 14 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems across AWS and GCP, and deep expertise in Kubernetes, Nomad, Prometheus, and Grafana. He has held senior engineering and SRE roles at AWS and HashiCorp and led technical teams and roadmaps at startups like Manifold and Kard, combining hands-on coding with strategic direction. An active open-source contributor, Jelmer has improved core Go projects such as go-micro and enhanced tooling like gofpdf and ForkCMS, demonstrating a knack for pragmatic backend fixes that improve reliability and developer experience. Based in Squamish, BC, he balances operational excellence with people leadership—mentoring engineers, speaking publicly, and translating product needs into scalable technical solutions. Notably, his contributions to service discovery and health-checking in go-micro reflect a focus on making distributed systems more debuggable and resilient.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at VHSI Brugge
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
back-end-development10
image-processing10
authentication10
microservices-application10
user-authentication10
distributed-systems10
php10
rpc10
go10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
golang10
access-control10
pdf-generation10
microservices10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
forkcms/forkcms
Sep 2011 - May 2013
Fork is an easy to use open source CMS using Symfony Components.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:116 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Jelmer primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Fork CMS project. Their work focused on implementing and modifying user authentication and access control features, specifically related to password management and user roles. They also addressed issues in the pages module, including improvements to template validation and fixing a bug involving hidden content blocks. Additionally, the user performed some minor merge operations.
cmsphpsymfony-bundleforkcmsfork-cms
jung-kurt/gofpdf
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
A PDF document generator with high level support for text, drawing and images
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 37 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jelmer contributed to the `gofpdf` repository by implementing and refactoring features related to image handling, specifically for integrating images from HTTP URLs. This involved creating a new package for HTTP image handling and refactoring existing code for clarity. Further contributions involved enhancements to the PDF generation library, including methods for aligning text and centering content within HTML elements. These changes focused on expanding the library's capabilities and improving user experience.
text-drawingpdfhigh-levelpdf-generationpdf-document
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