Nico Ekkart
Chief Technology Officer at HelloProf.com
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolNico Ekkart is a Cloud Engineer turned Chief Technology Officer with 10 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native systems and developer tooling. Based in Ghent, he progressed from internships in machine learning and Kubernetes to managing production infrastructure at Crunch Analytics and now leads technology strategy at HelloProf.com. He combines deep practical experience with Python/Django web development, Kubernetes/Operators, and automation—skills honed while managing IT for a large student association and automating office workflows earlier in his career. Known for bridging day-to-day engineering with product-focused leadership, he brings a pragmatic, operations-first mindset to scaling teams and services. Outside conventional roles, he has repeatedly taken ownership of cross-functional initiatives, from event organization to setting up integration testing and CI practices.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Middelbare School Latijn-Wiskunde, Middelbare School Latijn-Wiskunde at Koninklijk Atheneum DeurneMaster of Science Computer Science Engineering, Master of Science Computer Science Engineering at Ghent University
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Github Skills (62)
flask9
telecom8
operator-sdk8
python8
django8
dbt-packages8
django-models8
coregraphics8
chaos-engineering8
devops7
cnf7
dbt7
trigonometry7
site-reliability-engineering7
vim7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nicoekkart/pyMinerva
Feb 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
apipythonminervaugent
nicoekkart/dotfiles
Aug 2016 - Aug 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
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