Mark Van Den Borre
Owner at FOSDEM vzw
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolMark Van Den Borre is a versatile owner and technologist with 14 years of experience building Debian-based web and embedded solutions, including a commercial laser cutter and an open-hardware book scanner sold in the EU. He blends practical systems engineering—Debian/Ubuntu certification, LPI-level Linux skills, cross-compilation toolchains and Python web apps—with hands-on production and sales of hardware. Longstanding community contributor and director at FOSDEM, he architected a 24-room free-software streaming setup on a shoestring budget using tools like Ansible, ffmpeg and nginx. He also brings a parallel career in classical guitar education, translating teaching discipline into clear technical documentation and volunteer coordination. Comfortable migrating legacy systems to modern web stacks, he pairs pragmatic IT coordination for municipalities and arts institutions with a fondness for open source and multilingual community leadership. Not obvious from titles: he has repeatedly turned prototype projects into marketable kits while keeping designs open and reproducible.
13 years of coding experience
kandidaat meester in de muziek - gitaar, classical guitar, kandidaat meester in de muziek - gitaar, classical guitar at LUCA School of Artspostgraduate information technology (ISCED level 6), information technology, postgraduate information technology (ISCED level 6), information technology at University College Leuven (KHLeuven)docerend musicus, classical guitar, docerend musicus, classical guitar at Zuyd Hogeschool | Zuyd University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, French, English, German, Latvian, Afrikaans, Italian
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Github Skills (131)
web-application10
python10
dxf10
federated10
p2p10
streaming10
django10
pixelfed10
browser10
drawing10
activitypub10
video-streaming10
angular10
decentralization10
webrtc10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
markvdb/diybookscanner.eu
Aug 2012 - Feb 2020
Contributions:152 commits, 107 pushes in 7 years 7 months
markvdb/markvdb.be
Apr 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1 push in 5 years 9 months
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