Robin Roevens
Expert Linux System And Database Administrator
Antwerp Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolRobin Roevens is an expert Linux system and database administrator with 11+ years of hands-on experience managing complex infrastructure at Universiteit Antwerpen and prior roles in healthcare and manufacturing. He specializes in open source stacks—across SUSE/Red Hat/Oracle/Debian/Ubuntu—virtualization (VMware, KVM, Oracle VM), container platforms (Docker/Podman, K3s + Rancher) and automation (Ansible/AWX), combined with strong backup and recovery knowledge (Spectrum Protect). Robin has led migrations, upgrades and security hardening projects end-to-end, and is comfortable bridging system, storage and application concerns including Oracle and MySQL databases and scripting in PHP, Perl and Python. He brings practical monitoring and lifecycle management expertise with Zabbix and SUSE Manager/Uyuni, and a pragmatic troubleshooting mindset honed by years as a team lead and helpdesk escalator. Based in the Antwerp metro area, he combines institutional stability with an openness to evolving cloud-native patterns, often favoring lightweight Kubernetes distributions for production efficiency.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Guido Gezelle SchoolKoninklijk Atheneum MortselLinux 5, Linux 5 at Provinciaal Centrum vr Volwassenenonderwijs Waas en DurmeA2, A2 at STIMVrije Universiteit BrusselGTI Mortsel
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (143)
python10
ssh10
django10
ansible10
django-rest-framework10
firewall-rules10
zabbix10
iptables10
cakephp9
linux9
rest9
credentials9
trading9
custom-component9
security9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
RobinR1/zbx-template-ipfire
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
Zabbix template for monitoring an IPFire appliance/instance
Contributions:9 releases, 3 reviews, 38 commits in 2 years
monitoringzabbix
RobinR1/community-templates
Dec 2022 - Jun 2026
Zabbix Community Templates repository
Contributions:12 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 6 months
zabbix
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.