Patrick Van Der Veken
Admin Owner at KUDOS BV
Aarschot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Van Der Veken is a seasoned UNIX/Linux systems engineer and DevOps-minded admin-owner with over 30 years in IT and 11 years of focused professional experience delivering infrastructure, migration and security solutions. He has led complex platform migrations, designed high-availability on-prem hardware and application stacks, and implemented automation (Ansible/Jenkins) and governance models at enterprise scale for clients like Siemens and major banks. Disciplined, detail-oriented and service minded, he pairs deep hands-on expertise across HP-UX, AIX, Solaris and Linux with strong documentation, training and team leadership skills. A pragmatic problem solver and FOSS enthusiast, he also founded and ran niche community and consultancy ventures, demonstrating an entrepreneurial streak alongside technical leadership. Notably, he built cross-platform SSH/SUDO and centralized user-management frameworks used at scale, reflecting a focus on secure, standardized operations.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Finance & Accountancy, Bachelor Finance & Accountancy at Hasselt University
English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (37)
notebook9
caldav9
laravel9
chrome-extension9
google-keep9
jstree9
nextcloud8
php8
markdown8
qt8
checker7
dropbox7
owncloud7
documentation7
health7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
patvdv/aix_scripts
May 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
patvdv/check_health
Sep 2017 - Oct 2022
Health checker for UNIX/Linux
Contributions:12 releases, 1 PR, 280 pushes in 5 years 2 months
unixcheckerhealthlinuxhealth-checker
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