Jeroen Jacobs
Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Silverfin
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolJeroen Jacobs is a Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience blending Ruby on Rails development and DevOps to build reliable, invisible infrastructure. Based in the Ghent area and preferring fully remote roles, he architects and operates cloud platforms using GCP, Kubernetes (GKE), Terraform, Chef, PostgreSQL, GitLab CI, Datadog and AWS, while assisting teams to ship features safely. His background as a backend developer and contributor to projects like the Stringer RSS reader gives him a practical edge in optimizing feed fetching, data integrity and API integrations. Comfortable debugging exotic production problems, he favors calm environments where deep investigation and continuous learning are valued. As a freelancer and long-term Silverfin engineer, he combines startup agility with production-grade process and automation.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School ICT, High School ICT at Visitatie MariakerkeProfessional Bachelor Multimedia & Communications Technology, Professional Bachelor Multimedia & Communications Technology at HOWEST Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Dutch, English, French
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Github Skills (21)
rss10
rss-reader10
reader10
feed10
ruby10
feedparser10
parsing10
parse10
apidoc9
api9
database-management8
rspec8
simpleform6
database6
sorting6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
stringer-rss/stringer
Jul 2013 - Nov 2017
A self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 6 PRs, 16 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jeroen primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the RSS reader, focusing on feed fetching, parsing, and status management. They implemented features to handle 304 responses efficiently, updated the last fetched timestamp, and integrated a Fever API to mark feeds as read. Additionally, they modified the story and feed repositories to enhance functionality and maintain data integrity. Several commits related to improving the efficiency of fetching new stories and fixing constraints related to Story uniqueness were also included.
rssantirss-readerhostedfeedjira
jeroenj/couchpotato-cookbook
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes, 11 tags in 2 years
cookbookcouchpotatochef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
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