Jo De Boeck
Senior Platform Product Owner & Platform Team Manager
Egypt
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJo De Boeck is a seasoned platform leader and senior software engineer with 16 years of experience building and managing cloud-native platforms and teams from Egypt. Currently a Senior Platform Product Owner and Platform Team Manager at whitesky.cloud, he blends hands-on backend engineering—especially Python, virtualization, and shell tooling—with agile product ownership and people leadership. His open-source contributions include enhanced media and audio integrations for the popular i3pystatus project and a GiG G8 driver plus JWT refresh handling for Apache Libcloud, demonstrating practical cloud API and security know-how. Known for turning low-level system integrations into user-facing features, he brings a pragmatic, security-conscious approach to platform reliability and developer experience.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, ICT, Bachelor, ICT at Katholieke Hogeschool 'Sint-Lieven', Gent
Dutch, English
Github Skills (17)
python10
apidoc10
web-token10
cloud-infrastructure10
stat10
dbus10
api10
pulseaudio10
slstatus10
jsonwebtoken10
jwt10
libcloud10
cloud-services10
networking9
i39
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
apache/libcloud
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Apache Libcloud is a Python library which hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy to use API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jo primarily contributed to the development of the GiG G8 cloud provider driver within the Apache Libcloud library. Their work involved implementing features for managing virtual machines, networks (cloudspaces), and port forwarding. The commits demonstrate a focus on integrating with the GiG G8 API, including handling authentication, making API requests, and mapping data to Libcloud's internal structures. Further, they implemented JWT refresh functionality for the connection, showing an understanding of security best practices.
python-libraryapilibcloudpythonhides
enkore/i3pystatus
Mar 2016 - May 2017
A complete replacement for i3status
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jo contributed to the `i3pystatus` project by implementing and modifying modules related to system information display, specifically focusing on audio and media playback controls. Their work involved integrating with D-Bus for retrieving media player information and using `pactl` for PulseAudio volume control. The user enhanced the functionality of the 'Now Playing' module and added a new group module to cycle through other modules, improving the user's ability to interact with the i3bar.
i3statuspythonreplacementi3bari3
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