Luc Dekens
Retired at My Happy Place
Alken, Limburg, Belgium
Summary
👤
SeniorLuc Dekens is a retired systems engineer with over three decades of hands-on experience spanning mainframe (OS/360, OS/370, VM), PDP-11, Windows and various Unix/Linux environments. He spent 30 years in enterprise operations roles including Eurocontrol, evolving into virtualization and automation with deep expertise in VMware (Workstation, GSX/Server, ESX) and PowerCLI. In recent years he focused on PowerShell-driven automation, contributing practical improvements to well-known community projects like vCheck-vSphere and VMware PowerCLI example scripts. Luc combines low-level systems knowledge with pragmatic scripting skills to simplify routine ops tasks and maintain resilient infrastructure. Based in Alken, Belgium, he still tinkers with automation and takes particular satisfaction in seeing modern tooling earn the moniker “the software mainframe.” Notably, his open-source work centers on refining and extending diagnostic and management scripts that many vSphere admins rely on daily.
11 years of coding experience
39 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, German, Dutch
Github Skills (13)
powershell10
vsphere10
automation10
automations10
powercli10
vmware10
vmware-workstation10
scripting10
vmware-tools10
rest-api9
architecture5
architectures5
html4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vmware/PowerCLI-Example-Scripts
Jul 2016 - Nov 2019
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 13 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Luc primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of PowerCLI scripts, including functions for VMFS datastore management, tag management within vSphere, and VMC interaction. They fixed bugs and enhanced existing modules like the VMFSIncrease module. The contributions also encompass implementing and improving features related to connecting to vSphere environments and interacting with the Cis REST API.
alanrenouf/vCheck-vSphere
Apr 2015 - Feb 2020
vCheck Daily Report for vSphere
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 23 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Luc primarily contributed to the `vCheck-vsphere` project by modifying PowerShell scripts. Their work includes updating and refining existing scripts, specifically those related to version checking and event-related functionalities, within the vSphere environment. Furthermore, they added new files to the repository, expanding the tools available within the vCheck framework. The user's contributions suggest a focus on enhancing and maintaining the script's core features.
network-automationreportdaily-reportvmwarevsphere
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.