Jeroen Hooyberghs
Product Owner Digitale Producten - Video Delivery at VRT
Antwerp Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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SeniorJeroen Hooyberghs is a Product Owner and experienced DevOps-minded engineer with 12 years delivering digital products and video delivery platforms from the Antwerp metro area. At VRT he steers video delivery product strategy while maintaining hands-on expertise in GNU/Linux and server software, bridging product direction with operational reality. As a consultant and long-time open-source contributor, he has improved reliability and testability in widely-used Puppet modules for Jenkins and Prometheus, showing attention to testing, compatibility, and maintainability. His strengths lie in translating complex infrastructure needs into practical automation and resilient deployments, often contributing fixes that prevent failures under real-world conditions. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical teaching—he has experience giving courses on open-source topics—which helps teams adopt robust, reproducible practices. Notably, his contributions include careful test and logging fixes that reveal a pragmatic focus on observability and long-term operability.
11 years of coding experience
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (14)
jenkins10
puppet-bolt10
automation10
puppeteer10
jenkins-ci10
automations10
prometheus10
devops10
puppet10
cicd10
test-automation10
centos8
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/puppet-jenkins
Feb 2018 - Jul 2019
Puppet module for Jenkins
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jeroen primarily contributed to improving the reliability and testability of the Jenkins Puppet module. They added dependencies to prevent failures, wrote tests to verify the correct behavior of the reload functionality, and implemented tests for tunnel configurations in Jenkins slaves. Additionally, the user addressed a logging issue that caused problems with JSON output and fixed tests to reflect this change, and used variables to configure retries and sleep times.
jenkinsjenkins-pluginpuppetjenkins-api-plugingocd
voxpupuli/puppet-prometheus
Jun 2017 - Dec 2017
Puppet module for prometheus
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jeroen primarily contributed to the Puppet module for Prometheus by improving its functionality and maintainability. Their commits focused on enhancing the `prometheus::daemon` define, including improvements to parameter handling and documentation. They also addressed a typo in the `node_exporter.pp` manifest and made critical updates to the `alerts.pp` file, adapting it for compatibility with Prometheus versions >= 2.0.0. This work demonstrates an understanding of the module's structure and an ability to maintain and enhance its core features.
linux-puppet-modulepuppet-moduleprometheuspuppetarchlinux-puppet-module
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