Kevin is a Java Champion, software engineer, author and international speaker with a passion for Open Source, Java, and Cloud Native Development & Deployment practices. He currently works as developer advocate at Red Hat where he gets to enjoy working with Open Source projects and improving the developer experience. He previously worked as a (lead) software engineer at a variety of organizations across the world ranging from small startups to large enterprises and even government agencies.
Kevin is actively involved in Open Source communities, contributing to projects such as Quarkus, Knative, Apache Camel, and Podman (Desktop). He is also a member of the Belgian CNCF and the Belgian Java User Group.
Kevin speaks English, Dutch, French and Italian fluently and is currently based in Belgium, having lived in Italy and the USA as well.
In his free time you can find Kevin somewhere in the wild hiking, gravel biking, snowboarding or packrafting.
