Koen Calliauw
Chief Technology Officer at Layer7 BVBA
Zedelgem, West Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolKoen Calliauw is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating high-availability network and cloud infrastructures. He founded Layer7, a managed hosting provider, and now leads platform and engineering at Hippomundo, focusing on private and hybrid cloud, virtualization, and clustered storage solutions. His deep operational background spans VMware, KVM/Xen, Cisco/Juniper networking, F5 load balancing, and clustered databases including MySQL and MS SQL Server. Koen has a proven track record building fast, tuned web farms and resilient systems for high-visibility sites, and has taught networking and TCP/IP fundamentals to the next generation of engineers. He combines low-level systems expertise with an operator’s mentality—prioritizing performance, redundancy and repeatable deployments—rooted in extensive real-world consulting and hosting experience. Based in Zedelgem, Belgium, he is as comfortable troubleshooting storage and routing as he is shaping long-term cloud architecture.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Informix, Informix at IBMHoger Secundair Onderwijs, Hoger Secundair Onderwijs at VHSI BruggeSyntra West KortrijkBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at KATHOVHTI KortrijkHoger Secundair Onderwijs, Hoger Secundair Onderwijs at Vrije Handels- en Sportinstituut BruggeVMware Certified Professional, VMware Certified Professional at Expert Training Group
English, French, Dutch
Github Skills (145)
javascript-framework10
javascript10
crud10
progressive10
vue10
frontend10
digitalocean-api9
single-page9
multimodal9
gui-application9
api9
laravel-api9
vue-resource9
localai9
java9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vedovelli/vue-starter
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:30 commits in 1 month
vue-jsvuejs-appssingle-pagevuejs
layer7be/vue-starter-laravel-api
Sep 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:9 PRs, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
laravel-apiapivue-starterbasic-laravelvue
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