Jorge Schrauwen
Systems Engineer
Belgium
Summary
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RockstarJorge Schrauwen is a systems engineer with 12+ years of hands-on experience across Linux, BSD, Solaris and illumos, currently supporting infrastructure at Ghent University. He blends low-level systems knowledge (DNS, HTTP, SSL, PF firewall, zpool) with automation skills in Python, shell and SaltStack, and has contributed meaningful back-end and DevOps improvements to high-profile open-source projects like salt and SmartOS. Jorge is active in home automation and Zigbee ecosystems, contributing device support, converters and documentation to koenkk’s zigbee2mqtt and herdsman projects. He has production experience from Google data center operations to university IT, and a history of building practical tooling such as portable Apache binaries and an omnios utilities repository. Known for quietly maintaining durable, security-minded services, he’s gradually migrating his personal infrastructure to IPv6 and enjoys photography and writing about systems on his blog.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (34)
javascript10
python10
back-end-development10
package-management10
technical-writing10
mqtt10
user-manual10
typescript10
mqttnet10
smartos10
automation10
saltstack10
sys10
typescript-types10
virtualization10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
TritonDataCenter/smartos-live
Dec 2014 - Sep 2020
For more information, please see http://smartos.org/ For any questions that aren't answered there, please join the SmartOS discussion list: https://smartos.topicbox.com/groups/smartos-discuss
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 20 commits, 7 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jorge's contributions focus on enhancing the SmartOS live image by adding support for new hardware features in the bhyve hypervisor. This includes allowing configurable bootrom options, supporting NVMe disk models, and modifying the filesystems functionality. The user also addressed a bug related to file system removal. They made changes to `VM.js`, `proptable.js`, and `expander.js`, which suggests work on core virtual machine management and configuration.
smartos
saltstack/salt
Jul 2015 - Dec 2020
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:692 commits, 202 PRs, 1016 comments in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jorge primarily contributed to the `pkgin` module, which is responsible for package management within the SaltStack framework. Their work focused on improving the functionality of the `pkgin.latest_version` function, implementing the `pkgin.list_upgrades` function, and adding support for the `pkgs` parameter within the `pkgin.upgrade` function. Additionally, they made several code enhancements to the zpool module and improved the efficiency of SmartOS grain functions.
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