Pieter De Praetere
Diensthoofd ICT at Helptux computing
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Top SchoolPieter De Praetere is a hands-on ICT leader with 11 years of experience building and operating Linux and container infrastructures, now serving as Head of ICT at CAW Antwerpen. He combines operational leadership with deep automation expertise gained as coordinator of Linux & Container Infrastructure at Infrabel, where he designed automation architectures and developed tooling using Ansible/Puppet. As a freelance IT consultant he continues to blend strategic planning with practical implementation, bridging enterprise systems and smaller digital heritage projects. His academic background in history and archival administration gives him a rare strength in requirements analysis and stakeholder-driven solutions for cultural and public-sector environments. Currently completing postgraduate studies in IT administration and management, he pairs modern cloud-native practices with an appreciation for auditable, long-lived systems. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who moves smoothly between policy, process and code to deliver resilient, well-documented infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Postgraduate Degree Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at HOGENTMaster of Arts (M.A.) History, Master of Arts (M.A.) History at Ghent UniversityMaster's degree Archives/Archival Administration, Master's degree Archives/Archival Administration at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dutch, French, English
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Github Skills (109)
hugo-theme10
hugo10
rethinkdb9
mod-wsgi9
xsd9
z39-509
jekyll9
management8
oai-pmh8
php8
mhealth8
digital-preservation8
exchange-web-services7
perl7
javascript7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
FOSDEM/stands-website
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
stands.fosdem.org back-end code (Hugo).
Contributions:221 commits, 107 PRs, 185 pushes in 1 year 11 months
hugohugo-themeback-endfosdem
PACKED-vzw/Mediawiki-Rackspace
Apr 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 release, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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