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An old-school Linux sysadmin and all-round infrastructure specialist who grew up in the 90s and has worked in IT since before Y2K — now transitioning into a cloud native platform engineer.

Works as a contractor across finance & banking, energy, telecoms, and government. Found a new home base at Greater B.V.

kubectl get placements -o wide

Experience

NameEmployerClientSinceStatus
ncsc-nl Greater B.V. NCSC-NL — Dutch National Cyber Security Centre Apr 2024 Running
rijkswaterstaat Proxy Services B.V. Rijkswaterstaat — Dutch Dept. of Infrastructure Completed
national-police Proxy Services B.V. Dutch National Police Completed
ing Proxy Services B.V. ING Completed
shell Proxy Services B.V. Shell Completed
at-t Proxy Services B.V. AT&T Completed
kpn Proxy Services B.V. KPN Completed

full history — see LinkedIn ↓

cat /proc/stack

The stack

01 · Linux
The base. Since before Y2K.
02 · Virtualization & infra
VMware, NSX, VxRail
03 · Infrastructure as Code
Ansible, Terraform
04 · Containerization
Podman, Docker
05 · Orchestration
Kubernetes & the wider CNCF landscape
◇ OBSERVABILITY — cuts across every layer
Zabbix, Nagios, CheckMK
◇ SECURITY — sharpened at NCSC-NL
InfoSec & DevSecOps focus
kubectl get certifications --watch

Kubestronaut in progress

4 of 5 CNCF certifications earned
CKA
CKA
Earned
CKAD
CKAD
Earned
KCNA
KCNA
Earned
KCSA
KCSA
Earned
CKS
CKS
In progress
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Kubestronaut
On completion
$ next --after CKS
Eyeing the Golden Kubestronaut program as the logical next step.