Sidney Assis

DevOps Coach · BNP Paribas Fortis

Dendermonde, Belgium

About

Over a decade building enterprise backend systems — banking, finance, full-stack web. Strong on the JVM (Java, Kotlin, Spring) and increasingly on AI engineering: recently completed DeepLearning.AI's Machine Learning Specialization and shipped Poliglotify, an LLM-powered i18n translator. I also run my own homelab — multi-node k3s, GitOps with ArgoCD, self-hosted CI, registry, and observability stack — and yes, this site runs on it.

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BNP Paribas Fortis

DevOps Coach · since Jan 2026

Coaching engineering teams on DevOps practices. Previously 4+ years as Senior Java/Kotlin Developer — integrated PayPal, Monizze, NMBS and other third-party services into the Easy Banking mobile app via OAuth 2.0.

Projects

Poliglotify AI-powered i18n JSON translator
MyPromille BAC tracker · iOS, Android, web
This site conversational CV · self-hosted k3s + Ollama

Recent learning

Machine Learning Specialization — DeepLearning.AI (2025)
Advanced Learning Algorithms — DeepLearning.AI (2025)
Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 8 (2017)

Homelab

Where this site runs

Multi-node k3s · GitOps with ArgoCD ApplicationSets
Self-hosted Jenkins CI + private container registry
ELK (ECK operator) + Prometheus for observability
Local Ollama for LLM inference

Tech

Java
Kotlin
Spring
Python
FastAPI
Angular
Kubernetes
k3s
ArgoCD
Helm
Kustomize
Docker
Jenkins
Traefik
cert-manager
ELK
Prometheus
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
MySQL
Ollama / LLMs

Languages

English & Portuguese — native · Dutch — elementary