Thijs Feryn
Technical Evangelist at Conferences
Diksmuide, West Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolThijs Feryn is a Technical Evangelist with 14 years of experience helping organizations speed up and scale web and streaming delivery, currently representing Varnish Software. A published O'Reilly author and prolific speaker—250+ talks across 18 countries—he blends deep hands-on LAMP and caching expertise with public-facing roles in developer communities and product marketing. His background includes longtime evangelism and support leadership at Combell and Sentia, plus organizing PHPBenelux, showing a rare mix of customer-facing advocacy and operational technical depth. Trained in presentation and coaching methods and Zend-certified in PHP, he’s as comfortable demoing performance optimizations as he is shaping developer-facing product direction. An avid traveler, blogger and vlogger, he quietly leverages international speaking feedback to drive practical R&D and process improvements.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High Impact Presentations, High Impact Presentations at Dale Carnegie BeneluxBachelor's degree, Computer sciences, Bachelor's degree, Computer sciences at KATHO KortrijkZend Certified PHP 5 engineer, Zend Certified PHP 5 engineer, Zend Certified PHP 5 engineer, Zend Certified PHP 5 engineer at Zend Certified PHP 5 engineerCollege DiksmuideFinnish, Finnish at Ghent UniversityBachelor, IT, Bachelor, IT at Pohjois-Karjalan Ammattikorkeakoulu JoensuuMotivational coaching, Motivational coaching at Linkpower
Dutch, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (119)
truth10
reverse-proxy10
redis-sentinel10
http10
adobe10
magento10
armv610
varnish10
high-performance10
buildkit10
affiliates10
caching10
docker10
ecommerce10
image10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ThijsFeryn/varnishtraining
Jun 2013 - Apr 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 11 months
vagrantboxvagrant-boxansibletraining
ThijsFeryn/phpversions.info
Dec 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
hostsphpphp-versions
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