Iljo De Poorter

making
amazing
stuff
since
2021

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

IaC

Blueprinting cloud estates with Terraform and Ansible, pressed as sharp as a waxed Barbour at dusk

IaC

Blueprinting cloud estates with Terraform and Ansible, pressed as sharp as a waxed Barbour at dusk

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

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Over a 3 years of experience in interactive design and working with some of the most talented people in the business
NOW

DevOps Team Lead

VIC HoGent • Oct 2025 - Jul 2026

OCT 25

Terraform Wrangler

VIC HoGent • Oct 2025 - Jul 2026

SOON

DevOps Intern

Jan De Nul Group • Feb 2026 - Jul 2026

2025

YAML Archaeologist

Jan De Nul Group • Feb 2026 - Jul 2026

OCT 24

Student DevOps Engineer

VIC HoGent • Oct 2024 - Jul 2025

OCT 24

Infrastructure Tinkerer

VIC HoGent • Oct 2024 - Jul 2025

2023 - 26

BSc Informatics

HoGent • It infrastructure engineer

2023 - 26

Professional Googler

HoGent • Stack Overflow University

CERTS

15+ Certifications

AWS • GCP • Cisco CCNA • Linux Foundation

CERTS

Certification Collector

Like Pokémon cards but for nerds

Building production-ready infrastructure and automation solutions from homelab experiments to enterprise systems
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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

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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

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MY MOTTO

Automate
everything
you can

The DevOps Handbook

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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

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

Only seven years of actively producing cool shit. Other years were me messing around and navigating through my career.
NOW

Terraform Wrangler

VIC HoGent • Oct 2025 - Jul 2026

NOW

Kubernetes Wrangler

VIC HoGent • Oct 2025 - Jul 2026

FEB 26

YAML Archaeologist

Jan De Nul Group • Feb 2026 - Jul 2026

FEB 26

YAML Archaeologist

Jan De Nul Group • Feb 2026 - Jul 2026

OCT 24

Infrastructure Tinkerer

VIC HoGent • Oct 2024 - Jul 2025

OCT 24

Infrastructure Tinkerer

VIC HoGent • Oct 2024 - Jul 2025

2021 - 26

Professional Googler

HoGent • Stack Overflow University

2021 - 26

Professional Googler

HoGent • Stack Overflow University

CERTS

Certification Collector

Like Pokémon cards but for nerds

CERTS

Certification Collector

Like Pokémon cards but for nerds

Breaking things in production, then automating the fixes so nobody notices (it was DNS)

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

PLAY REEL
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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