Within this Startup responsible for designing and building a Kubernetes environment in combination with a CI/CD stack. Converting current Jenkins pipelines to Azure DevOps, converting current .NET applications to .NET core so they can run as a container. Migrate from current application landscape to a containerized landscape in Kubernetes. Setting up monitoring. All built through IaC, Terraform, Saltstack, Azure, Kubernetes, Helm, Azure Resource Management (Powershell and Python).

For van de Bron the automation set up for the data science team. This team used a DCOS environment where they link customers to suppliers based on blockchain. However, this environment was built up by the developers themselves and was not production-worthy. We have rebuilt this in Microsoft Azure and equipped with monitoring and autohealing mechanisms to minimize maintenance required for the platform. Because the system also integrated with their existing CI/CD environment, the old environment could easily be migrated to the newly constructed environment.

Implementation and automation of a DCOS Mesos environment. Although an environment had already been built up, further automation had to be added to this for the automatic roll-out of software for the Funda website and mobile app. These are automated based on both Terraform and Ansible and own written Python scripts executed by way of an Atlassian Bamboo CI/CD.

As a tech lead responsible for redesigning a complex trade environment into a private cloud. Focus on designing an environment that is future-proof. In addition to fully automating the entire environment (both Windows and Linux systems with terraform and chef) this also means a re-evaluation of certain applications and more towards a SaaS vs PaaS vs IaaS design working where possible. Responsible for design, development and management (plus transfer) of a microservice platform based on Mesosphere/Docker. The design also included building and automated publishing of the relevant APIs and services. Through API managers these APIs were published, service discovery was also an essential component here as the developers do not have to take into account the availability and location of the underlying services (database, APIs, etc). Based on the microservice platform several projects rotated and designed to develop a real-time and reactive platform that provides for automatic forecasting, trading and control of energy power plants (virtual and physical). I was mainly involved in integrating everything and supporting the developers in building microservices (think 12 factor design for example). Responsible for designing, developing and integrating a big data platform based on Hortonworks Hadoop distribution. This platform was built in its entireity in AWS EC2. The platform is mainly used for machine learning for the trade organization. This platform was combined with the microservice platform to build a real-time streaming application based on machine learning. Data interfaces were also built from various sources (MSSQL, Oracle, Bloomberg, Trayport etc). Partly responsible for a change of application interfacing to become cloud ready. Almost all applications have a file interface to share data among themselves. Several CIFS shares were used. However, this was an untenable situation as there was no longer any control over all interfaces, creating an unclear landscape with all the consequences that entails (security, stability, auditing and scalability). In order to bring the (legacy) landscape to the cloud, this had to change. For this we have built a, based on WSO2, ESB that sends all the data, this created clarity and in the future it becomes easier to change legacy applications as all interfacing is immediately clear.

Sure enough, I can write down everything in my life, but there comes a point where it just gets pathetic. Worked as an order picker at the Zeeman and some supermarkets (got fired everywhere), dreamed that I didn’t have to work but it turns out that you can’t pay bills and then people get angry. School was really stupid, your parents in puberty too, by the way. Could play videogames pretty well but you can’t eat from a high kill streak. Well and so on…