Kris Buytaert
CoFounder & Chief Yak Shaver at O11y
Antwerp Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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SeniorKris Buytaert is a veteran Linux and open source consultant and one of the early instigators of the DevOps movement, with over 15 years of experience building resilient, scalable infrastructure and promoting Infrastructure as Code and Continuous Delivery. As CoFounder and Chief Yak Shaver at O11y and long-time CoFounder & CTO of Inuits, he blends hands-on engineering with startup leadership to bridge developer and operations teams. He frequently speaks at and organizes international conferences, and contributes to community projects like the devopsdays website where he maintains event and front-end content. Based in the Antwerp Metropolitan Area, Kris focuses on high-availability and cloud-ready architectures—what he colorfully describes in his blog "Everything is a Freaking DNS Problem"—and aims for systems that survive the real-world “10th floor” test. Known for practical pragmatism and a talent for simplifying operational complexity, he combines evangelism with concrete code and documentation contributions.
15 years of coding experience
Dutch, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
html10
content-management-system10
website-development10
content-management10
devops6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
jedi4ever/devopsdays-webby
Jun 2012 - Apr 2016
Website code for the devopsdays website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:307 commits, 153 PRs, 153 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kris primarily updated the website code for the devopsdays website. Their contributions focused on updating event details, including dates, locations, and registration information for various Devopsdays events. They also corrected a typo in speaker information. The updates involved modifying HTML files and related content.
devopsdays
KrisBuytaert/vagrant-puppet-logstash
Dec 2011 - Nov 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 2 years 11 months
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