Kristof Keppens
Multimedia - AV-IT Specialist at Ghent University
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolKristof Keppens is a multimedia and AV‑IT specialist with 17 years’ experience designing and operating open-source lecture capture, live streaming and video‑on‑demand solutions for higher education. Based in the Ghent area, he has led deployment and integration of Opencast and related services on RHEL/OpenShift/Kubernetes platforms, and has hands-on expertise in AWS for educational multimedia workflows. He combines systems-level DevOps skills with classroom-focused product thinking, bridging e‑learning tools and AV infrastructure to automate capture, streaming and web conferencing. A longtime Ghent University practitioner and former open‑source consultant, he brings practical experience integrating complex media pipelines into institutional learning ecosystems. Notably, he pairs applied informatics training with a rare depth in both lecture capture operations and cloud-native orchestration.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
A1, Applied Informatics, A1, Applied Informatics at HOGENTEconomy - Mathematics, Economy - Mathematics at VKO Opwijk
English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (46)
video-processing10
recording10
opencast10
jenkins10
video-production10
video-capture10
gstreamer9
ansible9
video-management9
laravel-package7
css7
gtk7
python7
wowza6
transcoding6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mm-dict/galicaster-scripts
May 2013 - Jul 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 5 pushes in 8 years 3 months
ICTO/laravel-bigbluebutton
Jul 2015 - Jan 2019
Laravel package that provides the bigbluebutton API
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 3 years 7 months
bigbluebuttonlaravel-package
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