Iljo De Poorter
                      making
                      elegant
                      
                      stuff
                      
                      since
2021
                    
                  About me
What i do
IaC
Blueprinting cloud estates with Terraform and Ansible
IaC
Blueprinting cloud estates with Terraform and Ansible,
Kubernetes
Orchestrating containerized applications with K3s, ArgoCD, and GitOps workflows
Kubernetes
Orchestrating containerized applications with K3s, ArgoCD, and GitOps workflows
CI/CD
Automated pipelines with GitLab CI, Jenkins, and automated deployment strategies
CI/CD
Automated pipelines with GitLab CI, Jenkins, and automated deployment strategies
Monitoring
Full observability stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and custom alerting
Monitoring
Full observability stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and custom alerting
Automation
Conducting self-healing runbooks and event-driven workflows, that age like smoked vanilla.
Automation
Conducting self-healing runbooks and event-driven workflows, that age like smoked vanilla
 
                   
                  Experience
History
DevOps Team Lead
VIC HoGent • Oct 2025 - Jul 2026
Terraform Wrangler
VIC HoGent • Oct 2025 - Jul 2026
DevOps Intern
Jan De Nul Group • Feb 2026 - Jul 2026
YAML Archaeologist
Jan De Nul Group • Feb 2026 - Jul 2026
Student DevOps Engineer
VIC HoGent • Oct 2024 - Jul 2025
Infrastructure Tinkerer
VIC HoGent • Oct 2024 - Jul 2025
BSc Informatics
HoGent • It infrastructure engineer
Professional Googler
HoGent • Stack Overflow University
15+ Certifications
AWS • GCP • Cisco CCNA • Linux Foundation
Certification Collector
Like Pokémon cards but for nerds
Projects
 
                  Homelab Platform
Homelab Platform
End-to-end DevOps platform with Proxmox, K3s, ArgoCD, and self-healing automation
VIC HoGent
VIC HoGent
Migrated hosting platform from Terraform to OpenTofu, and vsphere to proxmox, building custom K8s modules
Jan De Nul
Jan De Nul
Maritime infrastructure with Proxmox, Terraform, Ansible, and OpenShift cluster standards
WHAT THEY SAID
                          “ 
                          Iljo is
                          very driven,
                          a great student
                          and he 
                          does 
what is asked
                        
Peter Gythiel
Lecturer Applied Computer Science and my mentor (r.i.p.)
Smi-Aalst
 
                 
                MY MOTTO
                        Automate
                        everything
you can
                      
The DevOps Handbook
Connect
                    Breaking
                    prod
                    since
                    2021
                  
                About me
What i do
IaC
Terraform love letters that coax the cloud into line before tea time
IaC
Terraform love letters that coax the cloud into line before tea time
Visual
I search the internet for visual references and then combine them to create my own work.
Visual
I search the internet for visual references and then combine them to create my own work.
Motion
I use fancy motion that makes my design more interesting that it actually is
Motion
I use fancy motion that makes my design more interesting that it actually is
Product
I utilize common design best practices, test, and re-iterate until it works (hopefully).
Product
I utilize common design best practices, test, and re-iterate until it works (hopefully).
Automation
Cron rituals polished like mahogany so releases land while the kettle sings
Automation
Cron rituals polished like mahogany so releases land while the kettle sings
Experience
History
Terraform Wrangler
VIC HoGent • Oct 2025 - Jul 2026
Kubernetes Wrangler
VIC HoGent • Oct 2025 - Jul 2026
YAML Archaeologist
Jan De Nul Group • Feb 2026 - Jul 2026
YAML Archaeologist
Jan De Nul Group • Feb 2026 - Jul 2026
Infrastructure Tinkerer
VIC HoGent • Oct 2024 - Jul 2025
Infrastructure Tinkerer
VIC HoGent • Oct 2024 - Jul 2025
Professional Googler
HoGent • Stack Overflow University
Professional Googler
HoGent • Stack Overflow University
Certification Collector
Like Pokémon cards but for nerds
Certification Collector
Like Pokémon cards but for nerds
Projects
Homelab Platform
Where I learned DevOps by repeatedly breaking everything
Homelab Platform
Where I learned DevOps by repeatedly breaking everything
VIC Infrastructure
Developed the Future of UFC Sports Ecosystem despite not being a sports fan.
VIC Infrastructure
Terraform to OpenTofu migration sounds fancy, right?
Jan De Nul
Consulting for boats while never being on one
WHAT THEY SAID
                        
                          “
                          
                          He’s terrible, but it’s
                          his birthday so I’d
say something nice
                        
                        
                          “
                          He’s awful, but
                          it’s his birthday
                          so I’d say
                          something
nice
                        
                      
Peter Gythiel
Lecturer Applied Computer Science and my mentor (r.i.p.)
Smi-Aalst
MY MOTO
                      It works
                      on my
machine
                    
Iljo De Poorter
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