Jonathan Vanherpe

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

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About me

Introduction
Senior Backend & DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in architecting robust, scalable systems and streamlining CI/CD workflows. Proven track record in managing cloud infrastructure, optimizing complex application performance, and leading technical teams. Expert in integrating AI-assisted development workflows (Claude Code, Devin, Antigravity, …) to significantly accelerate rapid prototyping, complex refactoring, and delivery cycles while enhancing system reliability.
Work Rights
Australia (Permanent Resident)
EU (Citizen)

Experience

Banxa
Lead technical implementation and maintenance of global KYC systems. Orchestrated complex integrations with global identity providers and continuously streamline onboarding flows to drive user conversion and system performance. Spearhead the adoption of AI-driven development workflows to accelerate debugging and code development within the engineering team.
Innovation Group
Managed and revitalized a legacy system, improving security, modernization, and functional capacity. Architected and deployed new custom and best practice tools, significantly enhancing operational capabilities and server infrastructure management.
LittleShovels
Architected cost-effective, scalable infrastructure for a bespoke Laravel CRM. Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines and AWS auto-scaling, significantly improving deployment reliability and resource efficiency for a remote development team.
Xequals
Delivered complex backend solutions for multiple high-stakes Drupal 7 and 8 projects on a freelance basis. Engineered custom modules, optimized Solr configurations, and implemented performance enhancements while contributing to frontend development as required.
Icon Agency
Served as a Senior PHP Developer (contract), specializing in large-scale Drupal projects. Collaborated on Laravel-based applications while architecting containerized environments with Docker and streamlining server administration workflows to ensure robust infrastructure.
Metronome
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
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
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
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
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.

Technical Skills

Backend Development
  • PHP (Laravel, Symfony), Python
  • API Design & Integration (REST, Webhooks, Identity Providers)
  • Database Design & Optimization (MySQL/MariaDB, Redis)
DevOps & Infrastructure
  • Cloud & IaC: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS), CloudFormation, Ansible.
  • Containerization: Docker, Docker Compose.
  • Linux: Advanced server management (Ubuntu, Debian, Amazon Linux), Bash scripting.
  • CI/CD: Designing and implementing automated workflows in GitLab and Bitbucket.
Modern Tooling & Workflow
  • AI-Assisted Development: Leveraging AI agents and LLMs for rapid prototyping, complex refactoring, and workflow acceleration.
  • Development Environment: JetBrains ecosystem, Claude Code CLI, specialized in high-productivity backend workflows.
Human Languages
Dutch (Native)
French (Native)
English (Excellent)