Iljo De Poorter

shipping
scaling
infra
since
2021

I'm a selectively skilled DevOps engineer, dedicated to crafting reliable systems built with intention and endurance.

IaC

Blueprinting cloud estates with OpenTofu and Ansible

IaC

Writing YAML until the cloud does what I want (eventually)

Kubernetes

Orchestrating containerized applications with K3s, ArgoCD, and GitOps workflows

Kubernetes

Wrangling containers like cats, but somehow they actually listen

CI/CD

Automated pipelines with GitLab CI, Jenkins, and automated deployment strategies

CI/CD

Making robots do the boring parts so I can focus on breaking new things

Monitoring

Full observability stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and custom alerting

Monitoring

Getting paged at 3am because something went beep instead of boop

Automation

Self-healing runbooks and event-driven workflows with n8n

Automation

Scripting myself out of a job one bash file at a time

work
work mobile
Over 5 years of experience in DevOps engineering and cloud infrastructure, working with some of the most talented people in the business

Building production-ready infrastructure and automation solutions
planet

Where I break things at 2am so production stays safe

Stealth Health Tech

Stealth Health Tech

Can't tell you about it, but it's very compliant

Teaching students how to not break production (ironic, I know)

Making sure ships can talk to the cloud

  • Peter Gythiel

" Iljo is very driven,
a great student and he does what is asked

Peter Gythiel

Lecturer Applied Computer Science and my mentor (RIP.)

Smi-Aalst

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MY MOTTO

Automate
everything
you
can

The DevOps Handbook

Looking for a DevOps Engineer? Let's talk.

Iljo De Poorter

Breaking
prod
since
2021


A DevOps engineer with a diploma in Googling really well and an obsession to make things work. Automating things mostly so I can have more tea.

IaC

Writing YAML until the cloud does what I want (eventually)

IaC

Writing YAML until the cloud does what I want (eventually)

Kubernetes

Wrangling containers like cats, but somehow they actually listen

Kubernetes

Wrangling containers like cats, but somehow they actually listen

CI/CD

Making robots do the boring parts so I can focus on breaking new things

CI/CD

Making robots do the boring parts so I can focus on breaking new things

Monitoring

Getting paged at 3am because something went beep instead of boop

Monitoring

Getting paged at 3am because something went beep instead of boop

Automation

Scripting myself out of a job one bash file at a time

Automation

Scripting myself out of a job one bash file at a time

Knee deep in 5 years of actively producing cool shit. Started in 2021 and somehow haven't been fired yet, which surprises everyone including me.
Stuff I built while pretending to know what I'm doing while having fun

Where I break things at 2am so production stays safe

Stealth Health Tech

Stealth Health Tech

Can't tell you about it, but it's very compliant

Teaching students how to not break production (ironic, I know)

Making sure ships can talk to the cloud

  • Peter Gythiel

" He's awful,
but it's his birthday so
I'd say
something
nice

Peter Gythiel

Lecturer Applied Computer Science and my mentor (RIP.)

Smi-Aalst

MY MOTTO

If
it's
not
automated,
it's
broken

My tired brain at 3am

Someone to blame when prod breaks?