Wannes Sels
AWS Engineer at KBC Bank & Verzekering
Lier, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolWannes Sels is an AWS-focused DevOps engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for public sector and enterprise customers. He has led AWS infrastructure for major Flemish government properties and now brings that expertise to KBC Bank, specializing in Infrastructure as Code and shortening feedback cycles to accelerate delivery. His background spans roles from software architect to evolutionary architect and developer coach, giving him a pragmatic view of both code and platform concerns. A hands-on contributor to tooling—improving stability and test coverage in the Jenkins Git plugin—he knows how to harden build systems that teams rely on. Based in Lier, Belgium, he combines deep operational experience with a talent for translating organizational needs into reliable, automated delivery flows. Colleagues describe him as mission-driven about getting code safely from repository to production while keeping developer feedback loops tight.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (16)
testing10
javas10
git10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
java10
sc9
build-automation9
aws-lambda6
watir-webdriver6
aws-eventbridge6
watir6
amazon-web-services6
groovy6
ruby6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/git-plugin
Sep 2014 - Nov 2014
Git repository access for Jenkins jobs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:4 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Wannes primarily focused on enhancing the stability and functionality of the Jenkins Git plugin. Their contributions included fixing critical bugs related to clone and fetch timeouts, and addressing issues with force pushes. They also added a new test case for force pushes and improved existing test cases. The user implemented improvements to the build process.
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wselsbe/optacon-esp32
Aug 2023 - Mar 2026
Contributions:9 PRs, 71 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 7 months
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