Kevin Petit

Platform Engineer at Sofico

Platform engineer with a generalist background spanning Linux system administration, Kubernetes, GitOps, and application development. I build internal developer tooling in Go and care deeply about automation, clean infrastructure, and making complex systems accessible.

πŸ“ Aalst, Belgium

Experience

Sofico Platform Engineer
Oct 2024 – Present

Building a self-service Kubernetes portal for development teams using Go and Angular. Responsible for infrastructure automation, GitOps pipelines with Flux, and microservices architecture.

Go Angular Kubernetes Azure Flux JWT
Klarrio Infrastructure & Automation Engineer
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025

Built and managed Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud with Terraform. Designed the GitOps deployment pipeline using Flux. Created Go-based internal tools for image vendoring, GitHub automation, and compliance verification.

Go Kubernetes Google Cloud Terraform Flux GitHub Actions
Nucleus Full Operations Engineer
May 2018 – Jan 2022

Server provisioning, monitoring (Zabbix/Nagios), performance debugging across hundreds of production Linux servers. Internal expert for Let's Encrypt and WordPress.

Linux Zabbix Nagios Go WordPress LAMP/LEMP
Tobania / KBC IT Helpdesk Support Officer
Dec 2016 – May 2018

First-line helpdesk support. PowerShell automation scripts. Built an IBM Watson chatbot for resolving common IT questions.

PowerShell IBM Watson ServiceNow
Kaneka Belgium Temporary System Administrator
May – Oct 2016

Built a Docker-based Icinga monitoring environment on Ubuntu. Created a custom real-time dashboard with a Laravel Lumen API.

Docker Icinga Laravel Lumen Ubuntu

Tools & skills

Primary β€” daily use
Go
Go
K8
Kubernetes
🐧
Linux
F
Flux
TF
Terraform
C
Caddy
Platform & Cloud
GC
Google Cloud
Az
Azure
AW
AWS
D
Docker
An
Ansible
GA
GitHub Actions
Other languages
P
PHP CodeIgniter, Laravel
C#
C#
$
Bash
PS
PowerShell
C
CSS
A
Angular Learning
Monitoring & Databases
Z
Zabbix
G
Grafana
P
Prometheus
M
MySQL
N
Nginx
A
Apache

Notable projects

Guild Wars Legacy

World's largest GW1 fansite. Community forums and WordPress content for 100k+ monthly users.

Woltlab WordPress Caddy

Spellborn Reborn

5+ year MMORPG revival. Go account system with auth, multi-DB, and legacy migration.

Go C# Reverse Eng.

Odoo–WordPress Bridge

Bidirectional ERP integration with real-time sync. Custom WP plugin + Go backend.

Go WordPress Odoo

Bobbejaanland Wait Times

Reverse-engineered park API. Real-time ride data microservices on personal K8s cluster.

Go K8s REST

Languages

Dutch
Native
English
Near-native
French
Working proficiency

Education

2015 – 2016

System Administrator Training

Thomas More Geel β€” via VDAB & Cevora
2010 – 2011

Office Administration & Data Management

VTI Sint-Lutgardis, Aalst
2006 – 2010

Office (BSO)

VTI Sint-Lutgardis, Aalst