Jochen Maes
Eigenaar at SeJo IT
Zele, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolJochen Maes is an experienced Linux system engineer and pragmatic technology leader with 16 years of hands-on and international management experience, currently running SeJo IT and leading infrastructure efforts at Kangaroot. He has designed and automated globally distributed development environments—most notably consolidating and securing toolchains for tens of thousands of developers at Western Digital—saving significant CAPEX/OPEX while enabling rapid, auditable upgrades. Comfortable across systems, networks and application stacks, Jochen builds scalable Infrastructure-as-Code platforms and CI/CD pipelines using tools like Ansible, Puppet, KVM/Ganeti and PostgreSQL. He combines deep operational expertise with software development (Python/Django, Ruby, PHP) and has repeatedly shipped customer-facing products from concept to production. A pragmatic mentor and team builder, he has a track record of growing engineers into new roles and steering migrations of datacenters and office infrastructures. Based in Zele, Belgium, he pairs technical depth with entrepreneurial initiative—running his own company and a specialty coffee venture alongside ongoing engineering engagements.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (60)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kangaroot/rootstack-devfactory
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
The Devfactory is a solution meant to provide teams a quick container/native/vm runtime enviroment. The goal is as follows: Use the hashicorp toolset to provide Service discovery/mesh Runtime environment for vm/containers/native/springboot Secure and transparant routing Auditability and logging out of the box, with minimal adjustments needed Monitored environment
Contributions:29 reviews, 23 commits, 19 PRs in 10 months
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