Basekick
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Who We Are

Built by a founder who's been in the trenches.

Hi, I'm Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck, but most people call me Nacho.

I've spent the last 20+ years helping startups build and scale everything from CI/CD pipelines to production-grade cloud infrastructure, long before "platform engineering" was a buzzword.

I'm the guy founders call when:

Their AWS bill doubled overnight
Their deployments keep failing after every GPT-generated merge
Their platform "works on my machine" but crashes at scale

Through my work with early-stage teams and enterprise clients alike, I've seen one thing consistently:

The best products still die on bad infra.

That's why I created Basekick, not just to fix what's broken, but to help founders sleep at night knowing their stack won't collapse at 3AM.

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What We Stand For

At Basekick, we believe:

Your cloud spend should be lean, not bloated
Your infra should empower your team, not slow them down
You shouldn't need a $200k/yr SRE hire to ship safely

We don't throw tools at the problem. We listen, triage, fix, and then scale — using real-world experience, not buzzwords.

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What It's Like to Work With Us

Working with Basekick means:

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No vendor lock-in

No bullshit "discovery" phases

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Real deliverables in the first 48 hours

You get a partner who:

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Speaks founder-to-founder

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Has built and rescued dozens of stacks

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Will tell you the truth (even when it's not what you want to hear)

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About Ignacio

Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck - Founder of Basekick
Founder of CDUser.com (20+ years of DevOps and infrastructure insights)
Creator of ExyData Ventures, home to tools like ExyData Historian and SSL Guardian
Former infrastructure lead, Sales Engineer, and Project Manager across startups and big corporations
Certified Scrum Master with experience in logistics, finance, and SaaS
Currently based in South America, consulting remotely with clients worldwide

Outside of work: I run a 3D-printing studio, a silent drone video channel, and still tinker with vintage sysadmin tools for fun.

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