Serge Van Ginderachter
Systems & Cloud Engineer at Ginsys
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolSerge Van Ginderachter is a Systems & Cloud Engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience architecting and automating Linux-based infrastructure and web application deployments, now focused on Kubernetes and GitOps workflows. As co-founder of Autops and long-time consultant at Ginsys he helps small to mid-size teams adopt resilient, observable, and automated production platforms that balance cloud services with self-hosted solutions. He is a pragmatic autodidact who prefers long-term, project-based engagements and brings people management and training experience to DevOps-oriented teams. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed bugs and improved modules in the widely used Ansible project, reflecting deep operational expertise rather than just theory. He’s known for looking at the bigger picture—ensuring the foundations are solid while delivering repeatable CI/CD and containerization solutions.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at HOGENT
English, Dutch, French
Stackoverflow
479reputation
183kreached
3answers
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Github Skills (18)
python10
automation10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
yaml9
database-management8
system-administration8
mysql-database8
database8
sql8
databases8
mysql8
devops7
pullrequest6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Jul 2014 - Oct 2020
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits, 12 PRs, 134 comments in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Serge contributed to the Ansible project by addressing bugs and improving the codebase. They fixed an issue with group variables when empty files were present and enhanced the code to use YAML extensions for variable files. Furthermore, they worked on improving the modules by addressing MySQL warnings and providing uniform return results. The user also made minor improvements to the `open_iscsi` module and addressed an inventory directory initialization issue.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
srvg/revealjs-presentations
Feb 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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