Patrick Debois
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolPatrick Debois is a veteran technologist who has driven transformative engineering practices across DevOps, cloud, security, and now GenAI for over 15 years. He helped birth the DevOps movement—organizing the first Devopsdays and coining the term—then translated that community-driven mindset into leadership roles from CTO to VP of Engineering at companies like Atlassian, Snyk, and Showpad. Today he leads Product DevRel at Tessl and advises AI-native initiatives, bringing engineering rigor to GenAI delivery, platform strategy, and developer experience. Patrick pairs hands-on engineering (open-source contributions around Vagrant and libvirt integrations) with product and organizational strategy, moving smoothly between the terminal and the boardroom. He’s an active speaker, organizer, and writer who sharpens ideas by building prototypes and curating communities such as AI Native DevCon. Not obvious at first glance: his career is defined less by chasing hype and more by asking the uncomfortable questions that force practical, production-ready thinking when new tech arrives.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Aanvullende Studie Informatica, Aanvullende Studie Informatica at Ghent UniversityIndustrial Engineer, Industrial Engineer at Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen
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Github Skills (26)
libvirt10
javascript10
cloud-computing10
apidoc10
scripting10
ruby10
script10
api10
virtualization10
sh10
shell10
centos9
debian9
css9
web-development9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jedi4ever/veewee
Nov 2010 - Apr 2015
Easing the building of vagrant boxes
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1065 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Patrick integrated various tools and components, including Ruby Enterprise Edition, chef, and puppet, for the Vagrant-based build process. They worked on defining installation steps, including updating and upgrading systems with APT and Yum. Their contributions primarily focused on setting up a development environment, with an emphasis on building and managing virtual machines.
vagrantvmsesxiansiblehyper-v
jedi4ever/devopsdays-webby
Jan 2011 - Aug 2015
Website code for the devopsdays website
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1386 commits, 11 PRs, 12 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Patrick's commits primarily focus on modifications to the website code, including updates to content (HTML) and JavaScript files. They worked on applying typographic widows in a JavaScript file and updating google maps and other Javascript files. The user also added old pages and made updates to the website CSS. The commits indicate a focus on front-end development and possibly some theming and UI adjustments.
devopsdays
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