Maarten Eyskens
Co-Founder at Innovate Technologies
Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolMaarten Eyskens is a co-founder and hands-on software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, DevOps-oriented systems from Belgium. He combines backend development and DevOps expertise, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like cert-manager, Cilium, and the Terraform Helm provider—work that touches TLS automation, eBPF networking, mTLS authentication, and Helm/Terraform integrations. At Innovate Technologies he has driven product and infrastructure delivery since 2012, focusing on reliable deployment pipelines and robust certificate handling. His contributions range from fixing subtle certificate name bugs and improving Venafi issuer handling to adding ingress-class features and SPIRE-based mTLS integration. He also brings front-end sensibility, having enhanced cert-manager’s documentation site with Algolia search for better UX. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he blends entrepreneurial leadership with deep systems-level coding and CI/CD improvements.
11 years of coding experience
Sint-Jozefscollege Herentals, IT, , IT at Thomas More-hogeschool
Github Skills (36)
kubernetes10
javascript10
cert10
testing10
ca-api-gateway10
go-testing10
acme10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
cicd10
terraformer10
aws-apigateway10
mtls10
amazon-api-gateway10
certificate10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
cert-manager/cert-manager
Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:184 reviews, 413 commits, 125 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Maarten made several code changes within the cert-manager repository, focusing on certificate request handling and configuration of the project. The user fixed an issue in ComputeCertificateRequestName, ensuring domain names that contain a dot at a specific character position are handled correctly. Additionally, they addressed problems in a Venafi issuer by adding support for specifying usages and handling potential errors. Furthermore, the user implemented improvements in the build and deployment pipelines.
kubernetesletsencrypttlscertificatecrd
hashicorp/terraform-provider-helm
Sep 2018 - Dec 2019
Terraform Helm provider
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 69 commits, 66 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Maarten primarily focused on improving the Terraform Helm provider's functionality and stability. Contributions include adding features to force recreation of resources, incorporating dependency management with Glide, and implementing workarounds for race conditions in tests. The user also addressed testing-related issues, such as disabling persistent volumes and modifying test wait times to improve reliability. Additionally, the user refactored the code to use a data resource for helm repositories, enhancing the codebase's maintainability and design.
helmterraformterraform-providerkubernetes
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