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About Me

Freelance remote
Cloud Automation engineer

Specialist in designing and implementing IT infrastructure automation, continuous integration and delivery.

I dream automation. I am self-motivated creative determined problem solver.

10 years experience designing and automating business critical, complex, high available infrastructures

- Automate and config as code everything
- Ahead of the usual always keeping skills up to date with recent
- Learn something new every day.

Passion for inventing, exploring and building event driven automation

I value quality, creativity, freedom, sharing
I love being active, motor cycle adventure, learning, cooking, reading, nature, tinkering

  • Purmerend, NL
  • KVK 77516249
  • BTW ID/VAT NL003205143B34
  • NL57 KNAB 0402895460

17600

Working Hours

200

Total projects

12

Years handson engineering

75

Total Client
My Resume

My Resume

Kubernetes engineer

CM.com (Jun 2022 - Aug 2022)

Secret management with Hashicorp Vault on Kubernetes
- Build and demo Proof of concept for different usecases
- Manage Vault deployment with ArgoCD

DevOps engineer

Qardio, Inc. (Mar 2022 - May 2022)

Deploying a highly available, elastic, scalable WordPress environment on AWS

Kubernetes engineer

University of Twente (Mar 2022)

Optimization of the Kubernetes platform
- Implemented Rancher HA setup using kube-vip
- Implemented gatekeeper and baseline security policies to improve cluster and workload security
- Implemented harbor private registry and enable CVE scanning of docker images
- Knowledge share new components and features with the team

AWS Cloud engineer

Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute - KNMI (dec 2020 - dec 2021)

Part of Cloud Platform Team
- Migrating multiple apps to AWS
- Deployments, automation on AWS
- Troubleshooting AWS apps on AWS
- Automating Route53 hostedzones multi-account management
- Improvements multi-account attribute-based access control
- Daytime support to internal devops teams
- 24/7 oncall engineer

Security engineer

City of Amsterdam (Jan 2020 – Nov 2020)

Continuous improvement & DevSecOps
Projects and responsibilities:
Secret management:
- Design and implement Hashicorp Vault cluster "as-code"
- Migration of secrets from legacy password manager to Hashi Vault
- Design and implement Vault operations pipeline using Gitlab CI GitOps
- POC design Vault dynamic secrets database engines
- Docker security and life-cycle management

Tools: Terraform, Ansible,Hashicorp Vault, Docker, Gitlab CI, Stackstorm, Slack Slash commands, webhooks, Jenkins, Git, Minikube, Kubernetes, Helm

DevOps engineer

City of Amsterdam (Jan 2019 – Jan 2020)

Successfully migrated 60 REST APIs as microservices to new secure platform based on Openstack and Docker.
- Working Agile/Scrum/Devops in infrastructure team delivering devops and infrastructure building blocks to customer teams and developers in sprints
- As infrastructure specialist responsible for managing and building infrastructure and applying infrastructure and DevOps knowledge to a multitude of customer projects
- Automating delivery of secure environments for data scientists based on Terraform, Ansible, Openstack, Docker
- Introduce and deliver CI pipelines for automated testing and verification of Ansible infrastructure code using molecule and GitlabCI
- Continuous improvement on automating manual procedures and standardization of workflows
- Responsible for managing, preparing and verification of infrastructure changes with internal organization and 3rd party vendors

Sr. Continuity engineer

Sentia (Jan 2016 - Jan 2019)

Projects and responsibilities:

- Key role in onboarding and migration of leading retail company to Sentia Cloud.
- As Lead engineer responsible for customer projects, coordinating operations, work preparation for the customer team.
- Automate and config as code "everything"
- Automated manual deployments and achieved Continuous Deployment using Ansible and Rundeck for 15 PHP business critical applications
- Setting roadmap of future improvements
- Continuous improvements/architecture redesign leading retail company landscape
- Responsible for organizing and leading team meetings
- Training and coordination of both engineers and developers
- Member of internal Ansible steering group to represent customer team, share ideas, goals and accomplishments with my team.

Sr. Linux sytem engineer

SaaSplaza (Dec 2014 – Dec 2015)

Projects and responsibilities:
- Configuration management: Creating roles and profiles for server functions
- Design, Implement User and Group management on platform nodes
- Design, Implement and maintain security and hardening configuration (NIST) on platform nodes
- Implementation and management of office network NL HQ
- Training and coordination of Junior and Intern Infra engineers

Platform/Network Engineer

SaaSplaza (Sep 2011 – Dec 2014)

Responsibilities:
- Allround Linux Engineer
- Puppet specialist
- Maintainer of distros on SaaSplaza platform (Ubuntu,CentOS)

Projects:
- Improve automatic deployment of Linux VMs on Xenserver
- Design and Implement Puppet infrastructure and manage baseline configuration
- Design and implement Linux Auto update strategy

Operations Engineer

SaaSplaza (Jul 2010 – Sep 2011)

Responsible for the daily operations on the SaaSplaza platform

BSc in ICT

University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam (2006 - 2009)

Advanced System and Network Engineering & Forensic Intelligence and Security

MBO ICT Network administration

Friesland College Leeuwarden (2004 - 2006)

MBO ICT System administration

Friesland College Leeuwarden (2002 - 2004)

MBO Electrical engineering

Friesland College Leeuwarden (2000 - 2002)

switch to IT

VBO Electrical engineering

Anne Maria van Schurman (1996 - 2000)

AWS 80%
Linux 95%
Ansible 90%
Terraform 80%
Kubernetes 80%
Troubleshooting 80%
Infrastructure as code 85%
Integration testing 75%
TCP/IP 90%
Packer 80%
Python 70%
Puppet 80%
Ruby 75%
MySQL 75%
PostgreSQL 70%
Virtualization 95%
Git 90%
ArgoCD 75%
Helm 75%
Cloudformation 75%
CI/CD pipelines 80%
Docker 90%
Firewalls 90%
Networking 85%
Blockchain 66%
IoT 60%
Openstack 70%
Loadbalancing 80%
VPN 95%
Hashicorp Vault 80%
My Resume

Certifications

 Author

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

Feb 2023
ID b2dc2657-2e93-4ecf-bae7-2d1779123324
 Author

GitOps certified for Argo - GitOps at Scale

Jan 2023
ID 63cc743ac768e0b95005bdc2
 Author

GitOps certified for Argo - GitOps Fundamentals

Jan 2023
ID 63c59dba340d439b120fc389
 Author

CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

Jan 2022 - Jan 2025
ID LF-namygjnxe9
 Author

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Sep 2020 - Sep 2023
ID LF-cohcv6eq91
 Author

CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

Sep 2020 - Sep 2023
ID LF-rqebzgdseq
 Author

Certified Rancher Operator: Level 1

Nov 2020
ID 59412481af7a4d6aa775cda490e3c0d1
 Author

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C01)

Sep 2018 - Sep 2021
ID X319S95C2JVE19SZ
 Author

Puppet Certified Professional

Mar 2015 - Sep 2021
ID PCP0000512
 Author

CCNA Routing and Switching

Sep 2011 - Sep 2014
My Services

Services

Automation and IaC

  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • Puppet
  • Cloudformation
  • Event Driven architectures
  • Automating manual and repetative work
  • Automating deployments
  • Orchestrate custom workflows

AWS

  • Building Proof of concepts
  • Migrating apps to AWS
  • Design, build and deliver solutions

CI/CD

  • Pipeline development
  • Implementing integration testing
  • GitlabCI
  • Github
  • Jenkins
  • CodeDeploy
  • GitOps
  • Implementing DevSecOps

Kubernetes

  • Building Ansible based Kubernetes operators
  • Deployments
  • Security
  • ECS
  • Fargate
  • Ingress
  • GitOps
  • Servicemesh
  • EKS

Microservices

  • Kubernetes
  • Dockerize applications
  • Serverless

Remote hands

  • Troubleshooting
  • Kubernetes
  • Ansible
  • CI/CD

Training

  • Ansible
  • Kubernetes

Interested in working with me?

I am passionate about automating and improving IT infrastructures on public clouds. Please see my list of services that I offer or contact me if you want more information.

I have multiple years of experience designing, building and maintaining IT infrastructures and automation projects. I keep learning and improving my hard and soft skills to deliver high quality solutions and services.

I will sent you an invoice once my work has been delivered.

I provide my work in a GIT repo and it comes with a readme and usage instructions. I can collaborate to your project by pushing to your origin.

in case of on-time projecs or gigs
- Online intake session to get the usecase and requirements
- Define Definition of done and Estimation of work required
- My offer for the service
- When offer accepted, start my work
- Make the delivery of service or solution
- Demo solution - if applicable
- Work completed

In the case of Extra capacity in your team
- Following your company's procedure for external hires/ contracts
- Join your team

I'm in Europe/Amsterdam, but I connect worldwide
My Price

How Much I Charge?

Devops engineering

Contact for rates

  • Extra capacity in your team
  • Creative ideas
  • Innovation
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