Simon De Backer
Responsable Amélioration Continue
Lille, Hauts-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon De Backer is a continuous improvement leader with 11 years at OVH/OVHcloud, blending Agile, Lean, SAFe and ITSM practice ownership with hands-on delivery and program management. He leads a team of methodological champions to standardize processes across ITSM, portfolio and project governance while coaching managers and delivery teams to raise operational excellence. Technically fluent from earlier engineering roles, he also contributes to open-source automation—helping improve the backend of OVH’s µTask engine with features like auth group support, compressed steps and richer logging. Based in Lille with a background in physical sciences, he pairs analytical rigor with a pragmatic, people-first approach to change. Notably, his career path moves from frontline customer support to strategic process ownership, giving him uncommon empathy for operational realities.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Licence, PHYSICAL SCIENCES, Licence, PHYSICAL SCIENCES at Université de Lille - sciences et technologies
Github Skills (13)
golang10
automation10
automations10
workflow-engine10
go10
apidoc9
api9
postgresql8
devops7
devtools7
workflow-automation7
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ovh/utask
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
µTask is an automation engine that models and executes business processes declared in yaml. ✏️📋
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 13 commits, 13 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the uTask automation engine. Their work includes improving the Swagger documentation for task listing, fixing a bug in the step execution related to pre-hooks, and addressing a typo in the notification initialization. The user also added group support for authentication, extending task models, and enhancing task listing functionality. Furthermore, the user introduced the ability to compress steps within a resolution and incorporated logging improvements.
golangworkflowworkflow-automationyamldevops
konnectors/cic
Aug 2019 - Jan 2024
Contributions:7 releases, 23 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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