Tom Kerkhove
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bruges Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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RockstarTom Kerkhove is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently leading development for Azure API Management’s self-hosted gateway and Azure Arc integration at Microsoft. Based in Bruges, Belgium, he blends deep backend and DevOps expertise—especially around Kubernetes, KEDA, and Azure Functions—to build hybrid, multi‑cloud API ecosystems. An active CNCF maintainer and Promitor contributor, Tom has hands-on experience improving autoscaling, pub/sub, and state management in distributed systems and has strengthened CI/CD and deployment tooling across projects. His open-source contributions span documentation, testing, and runtime enhancements for prominent repos like Dapr and KEDA, reflecting both code-level craftsmanship and developer experience focus. Notably, he pairs platform-level work with practical build/release automation (Chocolatey, AppVeyor, PowerShell) indicating an engineer who ships reliable, operable systems end-to-end.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (51)
autoscaling10
markdown10
kubernetes10
hugo10
docker10
http-api10
testing10
azure-functions10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
swagger10
asp-net-core10
microsoft-azure10
appveyor10
dockers10
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
kedacore/keda
May 2019 - Jan 2023
KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. It provides event driven scale for any container running in Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 releases, 659 reviews, 155 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tom's contributions primarily involve modifying and expanding the testing framework, specifically for scaling functionality, within the KEDA project. These changes include refactoring test functions, updating scaling tests across various cloud provider integrations, and introducing new test cases related to workload identity and Active Directory applications. The user also made adjustments to support Kubernetes versions and refined documentation related to the project's components. These changes demonstrate a strong understanding of the project's infrastructure and how different components integrate.
hands-onserverlessscaleautoscalingkubernetes
kedacore/keda-docs
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Documentation and landing page for KEDA
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1109 reviews, 162 commits, 664 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the repository by updating and improving the documentation. Their work includes fixing broken links, providing better 404 pages, improving the FAQ, and updating the landing page with a more recent video and samples. Additionally, they made changes to code snippets and made formatting adjustments to the supporting documentation.
keda
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