Tom De Smet
Platform Engineering Director
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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SeniorTom De Smet is a Platform Engineering Director with 11 years of experience helping organizations scale engineering effectiveness through cloud-native infrastructure and Internal Developer Platforms. Based in Ghent, Belgium, he leads a distributed team of 30+ platform engineers supporting 250+ product engineers, focusing on Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, GitOps and self-service CI/CD. He combines hands-on technical ownership of EKS clusters, ArgoCD, Helm and observability stacks with strategic responsibilities like FinOps, incident management and vendor strategy. Tom is particularly skilled at turning manual DevOps practices into resilient, self-service platforms that reduce deployment friction and accelerate product velocity. He’s passionate about developer experience and infrastructure automation, and often bridges the gap between platform reliability and day-to-day developer productivity. An operator at heart, he pairs pragmatic tooling choices with measurable outcomes across performance, cost and developer satisfaction.
11 years of coding experience
English, French, Dutch
Github Skills (123)
material-ui10
loxone-miniserver10
rpl10
javascript10
espressif10
contiki-ng10
rest10
cli10
angular10
admin10
typescript10
contiki10
6lowpan10
angular-cli10
react10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tdesmet/broccoli-merge-json
Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
p2solutions/contiki-ng
Aug 2018 - Jul 2022
Contiki-NG: The OS for Next Generation IoT Devices
Contributions:18 PRs, 47 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 11 months
contikinext-generationcontiki-ngtuyadevice-management
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