Frank Louwers
Co-Founder & CEO at Krane Labs
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolFrank Louwers is a cloud infrastructure entrepreneur and hands-on technologist with 11 years of experience building and running hosting and Kubernetes-focused companies from Ghent, Belgium. As Co-Founder and CEO of Krane Labs and founder of Kiwazo he helps teams simplify Kubernetes and cloud operations, offering scalable hosting on public clouds with predictable pricing and support. He has a strong track record growing and exiting a top-3 Belgian hosting provider, leading IT and cloud strategy at high-growth startups, and driving compliance and integration during acquisitions. Frank is also a certified PowerDNS consultant and contributor to PowerDNS documentation, demonstrating attention to operational detail and clear technical communication. Beyond commercial work he volunteers to coach startups in emerging markets and builds GDPR tooling for SMEs, combining practical engineering with governance and mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Electronics and ICT Engineering Technology (Industrieel Ingenieur Electronica-ICT), Master’s Degree, Electronics and ICT Engineering Technology (Industrieel Ingenieur Electronica-ICT) at KU LeuvenPost Graduate, Modern Telecomunications, Post Graduate, Modern Telecomunications at Katholieke Hogeschool 'Sint-Lieven', GentLatin-Math, Latin-Math at Sint-BarabaracollegeIBBT iBootCamp, IBBT iBootCamp at Vlerick Business School
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Github Skills (17)
authorisation10
authority10
documentation10
auth10
nameserver8
dns8
dns-resolver8
recursion7
recursive7
iperf6
docker-swarm6
docker6
docker-swarm-mode6
git6
ssl6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
PowerDNS/pdns
Mar 2019 - Sep 2022
PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 reviews, 31 commits, 28 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to the project's documentation, enhancing guides and man pages. They focused on clarifying existing documentation, correcting typos, and adding documentation for new features like `pdnsutil delete-rrset` and `replace-rrset`. The user also updated documentation related to API behavior and configuration settings, particularly regarding the `allow-axfr-ips` setting and TSIG usage.
powerdnsrecursordnsdns-serverdnsdist
franklouwers/pdns
May 2021 - May 2024
PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years
dnsdistpowerdns-recursordnsrecursorpowerdns-authoritative
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