Cloud‑Native & Linux Engineer
(Also with love for networking and observability)
I'm a 24-year-old platform engineer living in the Achterhoek region of the Netherlands. I specialize in building reliable, cloud-native infrastructure that helps teams ship with confidence—from Kubernetes clusters and CI/CD pipelines to end-to-end observability stacks. I enjoy turning technical complexity into elegant, maintainable systems. I'm also passionate about networking (especially BGP and routing), hosting technology, and I spend my free time climbing walls and running my own ASN-backed network.
Guided customers through automation and cloud‑native adoption, translating business goals into scalable, resilient designs backed by Linux and open‑source tooling.
Helped setup/founded and led the Managed Services team. Wrote ITIL‑aligned processes, built an observability stack with Grafana, Loki and OpenTelemetry, and drove service improvements from pre‑sales to run‑books. Example projects include setting up managed Proxmox full-fledged management with Operations workflows and runbooks for customers like Prinses Maxima Centrum, RijkZwaan.
Designed and built cloud landing zones in GCP, AWS and Azure with Terraform, GitLab and Argo CD streamlined structures. Automated deployment of Elastic Cloud and 20+ open‑source components, accelerating delivery for SCOR France & ReMark International.
Modernised datacentre operations and helped architecting network setups. Replaced manual workflows with Ansible automation across Red Hat and Debian fleets and streamlined virtualisation management.
Kept 1,300+ VMs and network devices humming (DirectAdmin/Plesk-based, LAMP stacks, HA clusters, Virtualization, networking, etc), delivered 2nd/3rd‑line support, and boosted reliability with Zabbix monitoring and Ansible automation.
I run a public network under ASN 50917 with four Amsterdam PoPs linked by a dedicated fibre ring.
Stack: eBGP, iBGP, MED, VXLAN, EVPN, Routing, Fibre Optics, Arista, Cisco, Juniper, Linux, Proxmox, SONiC, and much more.
Debian-based (Ubuntu, Mint, etc included) • RedHat-based (RHEL, CentOS, Alma, RockyLinux, CloudLinux) • Free/OpenBSD • Arch Linux • MacOS • Windows (preferably not, but i don't hate it)
DirectAdmin • Apache • NGINX • (Open)LiteSpeed • Caddy • PHP servers (FPM, LSPHP, FCGI, mod_php) • NPM-based • Sidekiq/Puma • Performance tuning
MySQL • MariaDB • Galera/Percona clusters • Azure SQL • Amazon RDS • Cloud SQL (GCP) • PostgreSQL • REDIS • Clickhouse
TCP/IP • VLAN • VXLAN • MPLS • BGP • SRv6 • Arista • Cisco • Dell • eBPF/XDP • Cilium • Firewalling • Cilium • SONiC • DPDK (basic)
Kubernetes • Docker • LXC • KVM/QEMU (Libvirt/proxmox/openstack/cloudstack) • Proxmox • Pacemaker • Heartbeat
Terraform / OpenTofu • Ansible • GitLab CI/CD • Bitbucket Pipelines • Bash scripting
Bash • PHP (Laravel) • SQL • Python • Go (basic) • HTML • CSS
Google Cloud (advanced) • AWS (advanced) • Azure • Cloudflare • Imperva • SolusVM • Virtualizor • OpenStack • CloudStack • ESXI
Elastic Cloud (+integrations) • Elasticsearch • Kibana • Logstash • FluentBit • Grafana • Prometheus • Mimir • Thanos • Loki • OpenTelemetry • syslogd • Zabbix • Icinga(/Nagios)