Who I am
About
I'm a Managed OpenShift Black Belt at Red Hat, and a career-long DevOps engineer and tech lead living in Amsterdam who enjoys travelling around the world, getting lost in strange cities, and cooking interesting food. In the past I've run a web hosting company in my spare time and wrote a travel blog describing my trips around the world.
I love digging into the technical details of open source and cloud native technologies, and translating them into solutions that bring real value to companies and people alike. I've designed, implemented and migrated whole-genome DNA sequencing pipelines from GridEngine clusters to cloud native systems, automated and built Kubernetes clusters on private clouds, and architected dynamic machine learning platforms on public cloud using GPUs — always keen to tackle the next challenge.
Career
Experience
The short version. Ask if you want the long one.
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Senior Black Belt, Managed OpenShift — Red Hat
Strategic pre-sales and technical leadership for OpenShift across EMEA, translating cloud native and open source technology into real business value.
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Lead SRE, then CISO — Aidence
Built the cloud version of the Veye medical imaging platform, cutting deployment time from three months to under an hour, then led security as CISO through ISO 27001/13485 and GDPR/MDR compliance.
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Mission Critical Engineer — Schuberg Philis
DevOps engineering, pre-sales and technical leadership in a no-managers, full-ownership team; regular speaker at KubeCon and DevOpsDays.
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Senior Linux Engineer — LinuxIT
Multi-node Linux clustering, Puppet automation and a 20-year tape archive design, after two years on the service desk there.
Community
Community & speaking
I organise and speak at cloud native events around Amsterdam — currently chapter organiser for Cloud Native Amsterdam (CNCF) and co-organiser of Dutch Cloud Native Day, having previously co-organised Kubernetes Community Days Amsterdam for two years. I've spoken at KubeCon, DevOpsDays and local meetups on everything from incident management to Linux filesystem permissions.