Nick Vanpraet
DevOps Platform Engineer
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Vanpraet is a DevOps Platform Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating backend systems for digital experience platforms from Ghent, Belgium. He blends deep Drupal backend expertise with hands-on platform engineering—automating infrastructure with Ansible, integrating secrets management via HashiCorp Vault, and running workloads on GCP and Kubernetes. At Dropsolid he helped shape a scalable DXP and contributed backend fixes to the popular open-source marketing automation project Mautic, including caching and PHP modernization work. Pragmatic and curious, he moves between application-level improvements and infrastructure automation, ensuring secure, repeatable deployments. Colleagues rely on him to bridge development and platform concerns while continuously exploring new tools to harden and simplify delivery.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ghent UniversityBackend Developer, Backend Developer at VDAB
Dutch, English
Github Skills (10)
email-marketing10
caching10
php10
automations10
marketing-automation10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
open-source9
phpunit8
git7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mautic/mautic
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Mautic: Open Source Marketing Automation Software.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 1 commit, 27 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to back-end improvements within the Mautic project. Their work involved injecting caching solutions into the DeviceDetector, fixing issues with segment emails, and refactoring code to address PHPStan/Rector issues. Additionally, the user made adjustments to the email build URL functionality and addressed parent calls within the email model. The user also made modifications related to data-target-urls.
marketing-automationmauticphpautomationsoftware-automation
nick-vanpraet/mautic
Dec 2021 - Feb 2025
Mautic: Open Source Marketing Automation Software.
Contributions:84 pushes, 29 branches in 3 years 3 months
marketing-automationmauticphpautomationsoftware-automation
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