Welcome to my site!

My name is Diederik, i'm a 22 year old Unix & Cloud engineer from  the Netherlands.

I have 18+ certifications, click the software or company to find out more!

My employment track record

See my track record in the IT industry.

Cloud Engineer
Nov. 2022 | Current

At Sue, i'm currently working as a Cloud engineer in project teams for awesome customers. I also work on open source software in the R&D department! 

Co-Founder
Jan 2023 | Current

Together with a partner I run backbone.direct / AS50917, a very well inter-connected ISP and a multi-dc routing backbone with direct T1 connectivity.

Systems engineer
Sep. 2018 | Okt. 2022

I was a Linux & network engineer at Shock Media. I also was Lead Datacenter Eng, managing 13+ server racks serving government infra & large companies.

IT Consultant
Jan. 2017 | Jun. 2018

Helped setup workspaces in the Cloud and did (local) networking & firewalling tasks in the province of Gelderland for various RegioBank offices.

Long-term & Advanced experience

I am very experiencd with the following techniques:
 Webservers Apache2, NGINX(+), (O)LS
 Linux Debian & Redhat based
 Databases MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres 
 K&V: Redis, Memcache, ETCD, Mongo
 Scripting in BASH and PHP
 Storage ZFS, EXT3/4, XFS, RAID, SAN, S3,
 Advanced DNS Knowledge
 Networking: TCP/IP, V(X)LAN, QinQ, Cabling, Datacenter environments, BGP, OSPF, RIP, MPLS, and many more
 And many others: HAProxy, Varnish, DirectAdmin, Plesk, cPanel, Proxmox, VMWare, Qemu, Cloudflare, Advanced DNS knowledge & much more! 

General working experience

I have good knowledge and experience with the following:
 Storage CEPH, Gluster
 SDN XDP, eBPF, and DDoS mitigation
 High availability implementation
 Observability Elastic(cloud), Kibana
 Containerization Kubernetes, Docker, LXC, Containerd, rkt

More advanced experience

As of the past 2 years, i have worked a lot with:
 IaC Terraform and Ci/Cd
 Automation Ansible and BASH
 IAM Keycloak, Kyverno & more
 And many more! Just ask 

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or email me at hallo [at] ikbendiederik [dot] nl.