Kenneth Hoste holds a Masters (2005) and a PhD (2010) in Computer Science from Ghent University (Belgium). His dissertation topic was "Analysis, Estimation, and Optimization of Computer System Performance Using Machine Learning".

Since October 2010, he has been a member of the HPC team at Ghent University, where he is mainly responsible for user support & training. He has been the lead developer of EasyBuild since 2011, a software build and installation framework for (scientific) software on HPC systems, a core contributor in the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI) project since 2020, a partner in the MultiXscale EuroHPC Centre-of-Excellence since 2023, and a member of the consortium developing the EuroHPC Federation Platform since 2025.

He enjoys (co-)organizing workshops and meetups, such as the EasyBuild User Meetings (held yearly since 2016) and the HPC, Big Data & Data Science devroom at FOSDEM (since 2014).