Jonathan Vanherpe

jobs@freebase.be
Tel. +61 423 129 648

Please refer to the online version of this document, which is located at:
http://cv.freebase.be/. This version might be out of date.

About me

Birthplace
Kortrijk, Belgium
Birthdate
November 3rd, 1983
Nationality
Belgian
Aus Visa Status
Permanent Resident

Experience

Banxa (June 2021 - Now)
Banxa is a global cryptocurrency on and offramp. I am responsible for some devops tasks, optimisations, and the API integration with various identity providers for Banxa's KYC implementation.
  • AWS
  • Laravel
  • Ansible
  • VUE.js
  • Docker
Innovation Group (October 2019 - June 2021)
For Innovation Group I took over management of a legacy system in order to secure it, update it and expand on it. In addition to that I built new tools for them and did server management.
  • AWS
  • CentOS
  • WSL2
  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • MySQL
LittleShovels (March 2019 - Now)
As a freelance devops engineer I set up CI/CD and workflows for a remote dev team, and autoscaling on AWS, in order to provide a costeffective solution for a bespoke Laravel-based CRM.
Xequals (January 2019 - Now)
Senior Drupal developer on a freelance basis. This includes multiple projects using Drupal 7 and 8, mostly backend (custom modules, solr configuration, performance optimisations) but some frontend as well.
Icon Agency (May 2018 - November 2018)
Senior PHP developer (contract) at Icon Agency in Melbourne, Australia. I was mostly working on Drupal projects, but was also involved in some Laravel projects, working with Docker and server administration.
  • Drupal 7/8
  • Laravel
  • Docker, AWS, Ansible
Metronome (March 2014 - May 2018)
Tech Lead at Metronome, an advertising agency in Melbourne, Australia. Day-to-day tasks included PHP/JS development, server management and setting the technical direction for development within the agency.
  • Devops (Linux server management, Ansible, AWS, Nagios, Docker, DNS)
  • Symfony
  • Wordpress
  • Drupal
BOA (2011 - 2013)
Web developer at BOA, an advertising agency in Lauwe. I was tasked with general web development with a proprietary CMS, Yii & Drupal. I also did some server administration (Debian, Ubuntu & OS X).
  • Maintaining and creating websites with the agency's homegrown CMS, using PHP, jQuery, MySQL & Smarty
  • Making sure the local mailserver kept running and creating mailboxes/aliases (Mac OS X, postfix & dovecot)
  • Registering domain names for various TLD's and changing DNS records as needed.
  • A dashboard web application that visualises data that was imported from a Microsoft Dynamics NAV system, using Yii, MySQL, XML, PHP & jQuery. Read a detailed description.
  • Several Drupal Commerce based websites, using git, Drupal and Drush. Read a detailed description.
Media Mates (2011)
Web developer at Media Mates, a web agency in Izegem. This job required working with PHP and JavaScript using a custom CMS.
All Hands Volunteers (2010-2011)
Volunteer work with All Hands Volunteers in Léogâne, Haiti. This included leading teams of both international and local volunteers, clearing rubble, construction of schools and some web development (displaying work sites and projects on Google Maps).
Tallieu & Tallieu (2006-2010)
Web developer at Tallieu & Tallieu, an advertising agency in Deinze.
My job involved writing Lasso, PHP, JavaScript, xHTML, CSS as well as some server and database administration. We worked as a team on a wide variety of projects, some of which were high-traffic websites that required MySQL query and Apache optimisations. I was responsible for the server-side code and JavaScript behind a large amount of websites.

Skills

Development/scripting
  • HTML5
  • CSS, SASS, Bootstrap Framework
  • JavaScript & jQuery
  • PHP (Symfony, Wordpress, Drupal, Yii,…)
  • API integrations (SOAP, REST)
  • git
Devops
  • Linux (Debian, Ubuntu)
  • Apache
  • Mysql
  • SSH
  • AWS
  • Ansible
  • Bash
Graphics
  • Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator
  • GIMP
  • Inkscape
  • Imagmagick
  • pdftk
Audio/Video
MEncoder, FFmpeg, and various non-linear video editors
Office
  • LibreOffice
Operating systems
  • Linux (main OS for server and desktop)
  • Windows
  • Mac OS X
Languages
  • Dutch (mother tongue)
  • French (mother tongue)
  • English (excellent)
  • German (notions)
  • Haitian Creole (notions)
Driver's license
  • Class B (EU)
  • Class C (AUS)

Education

KTA Heule
A2 MultimediaTechnieken
PIH
MCT (1 year)
VDAB
Web development
Other
I constantly keep myself updated with the latest technology by reading relevant blogs and feeds.