Tom De Vylder
DevOps Consultant at Tinfoil Hat Consultancy
Heist-op-den-Berg, Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
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SeniorTom De Vylder is a seasoned DevOps consultant with 15 years of experience designing and automating system configurations across Linux, Unix and macOS environments from his base in Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium. He focuses on infrastructure-as-code and repeatable builds, contributing to well-known open-source projects like Puppet modules for Graphite and Redis and tooling that streamlines Vagrant box creation. His background spans hands-on systems engineering and consultancy roles where he improved configuration quality, testing, and deployment workflows. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he’s known for fixing tricky template and linting issues, addressing RSpec compatibility problems, and smoothing install/config procedures. Tom combines deep OS-level knowledge with a preference for maintainable automation, making fragile ops processes more robust and auditable.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (20)
puppeteer10
puppet10
scripting10
testing10
configuration-management10
rspec10
graphite10
automation10
script10
sh10
automations10
shell10
vagrant10
redis9
puppet-bolt9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/puppet-redis
Sep 2012 - Sep 2018
Puppet Module to manage Redis
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:113 commits, 54 PRs, 98 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tom contributed to the Puppet module for Redis, primarily focusing on configuration and testing improvements. Their work includes fixing ordering issues in the `init.pp` manifest, refactoring RSpec tests, and addressing syntax errors for different RSpec versions. They also introduced a potential bug fix and style improvements across the module's codebase.
linux-puppet-modulepuppet-moduleredispuppetcentos-puppet-module
jedi4ever/veewee
Feb 2012 - Feb 2012
Easing the building of vagrant boxes
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:20 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focuses on automating the build and setup of virtual machine images. They modify shell scripts and configuration files for Debian and CentOS, specializing in installing and configuring guest additions, Ruby, Chef, and Puppet. Their contributions involve setting up networking, installing packages, and configuring system-level settings to ease the creation of Vagrant boxes for different OS versions.
vagrantvmsesxiansiblehyper-v
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