Vic van Gool
Founder at cloud66
Summary
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RockstarVic van Gool is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience focused on back-end systems, DevOps, and cloud tooling. He founded Cloud66 and contributes to open-source projects that optimize build and deployment workflows, including notable work on a Docker build flow tool (habitus) and enhancements to the fog-aws library. His contributions emphasize reliability and automation—adding versioning, logging modes, retry with jitter, resource limits, and cleanup optimizations—showing a pragmatic focus on resilient production systems. Based in the UK, Vic combines entrepreneurial leadership with hands-on engineering, preferring to solve hard infrastructure problems himself and enable other developers to ship faster. An engineer who clearly "loves tech and tech people," he pairs technical depth with a knack for improving developer experience in cloud-native environments.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
error-handling10
docker10
go10
aws10
api10
apidoc10
dockers10
cicd10
ruby10
dockerfile9
logging9
container9
cloud-infrastructure8
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cloud66-oss/habitus
Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
A build flow tool for Docker.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 16 commits, 2 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Vic primarily contributed to the project by adding features related to versioning, logging, and output formatting. They introduced flags for displaying version information and added support for plain text logging. Furthermore, the user made changes to the build process, including resource limits, artefact handling, and cleanup commands, suggesting a focus on automation and build optimization. Their work also involved integrating and using logging parameters.
containersdockerfiledockerci-cdkubernetes
fog/fog-aws
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Module for the 'fog' gem to support Amazon Web Services http://aws.amazon.com/
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 13 comments in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Vic contributed to the Fog gem, specifically for AWS functionality. Their work involved adding and modifying retry mechanisms for handling request limits, incorporating jitter, and renaming a parameter related to retries. The user also updated the code to fetch configuration options more effectively, making the code cleaner. Furthermore, they contributed by adding and updating the regions supported by the AWS module, ensuring the library's compatibility with new AWS infrastructure.
test-kitchenamazonfoghttp-servicesweb-services
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