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Work Experience

• Team lead, Nedap

  Apr, 2021 - Present

  Leading the Steppingstone team for Nedap. Steppingstone provides infrastructure and several managed services to various business units of Nedap.

  • HR responsible for a team of 7, which are geographically distributed in multiple timezones

  • Managing 1000+ machines in four DC's and several public clouds

  • Migrating to an on-premise container-based infrastructure

  • Migrating to a hybrid cloud setup

• Cloud Engineering Lead - (Xebia), Royal FloraHolland

  Dec, 2018 - Mar, 20212 years 3 months

  Leading the Cloud Engineering team for Floriday, a digital platform for floriculture where growers and buyers can handle their commercial and logistic processes.

  • Established and propagated the vision and responsibilities for the Cloud Engineering team

  • Centrally involved in shaping the architecture of Floriday, as well as all requirements needed for running in production (i.e., observability)

  • Built a self-service model for deployments using AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

  • Built an auto-scalig GitLab runners solution

• Site Reliability Engineer - (Xebia), De Bijenkorf

  Nov, 2017 - Nov, 20181 year 1 month

  Migrated the majority of the Bijenkorf applications to Kubernetes. The Bijenkorf is a high-end brick and mortar retailer with an excellent online presence.

  • Initiated and coordinated a migration from Elastic beanstalk on AWS to Kubernetes running on GCP

  • Setup and configured Kubernetes clusters on AWS and Google Cloud

  • Built a performance testing suite in Gatling, and created an on-demand load farm using Kubernetes

  • Setup complete CI/CD flow for all applications running on k8s

  • Built deployments for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Spring Boot services, ELK stack and many smaller applications

• Build Engineer - (Xebia), SDL

  Apr, 2017 - Oct, 20176 months

  Built a solution where teams can effortlessly deploy a full system stack with a specified set of component versions

  • Scripted automated deployment of SDL Web (Tridion) components

  • Setup a Rancher platform for improved resource utilization of the internal ESXi cluster

• Agile Test Consultant - (Xebia), De Bijenkorf

  Dec, 2016 - Nov, 201711 months

  Supported teams in the development and adoption of automated testing throughout the stack.

  • Refactored of existing end-to-end testsuite, to support parallel test execution, to support multi-device and multi-viewport testing and improved debug-ability

  • Organized hands-on workshops for teams to adopt unit, performance and end-to-end testing

  • Integrated tests in the delivery pipeline, created test reporting and dashboarding to provide insights in test results

  • Containerized the development environment (Adobe AEM) for easier local development and testing

• Agile Test Consultant - (Xebia), Zamro

  Jul, 2016 - Jan, 20176 months

  Testing and CI/CD for a new Intershop platform

  • Built an end-to-end test suite for multi-device and multi-browser testing

  • Optimized the CI platform by Dockerizing Jenkins and writing Jenkins jobs in code

  • Coached teams on testing and DevOps practices

  • Performance testing for the pre-launch validation of the infrastructure

• Agile Test Consultant - (Xebia), ZorgDomein

  Dec, 2015 - Nov, 201611 months

  Testing of the 'Patiëntoverleg' communication platform.

  • Setup delivery pipeline for mobile applications (iOS, Android)

  • Developed automated tests for the mobile apps (iOS, Android), web, and the backend

  • Implemented mobile analytics and crash reporting

• Agile Test Consultant - (Xebia), Glencore Grain

  Oct, 2015 - Feb, 20164 months

  Determined testing approach for application rebuild

  • Created agile testing approach and embedded this within the development team

  • Implemented front-end tests

  • Integrated tests in build pipeline

• Agile Test Consultant - (Xebia), Stater

  Apr, 2015 - Feb, 201610 months

  Supported in the adoption of Continuous Delivery within Stater

  • Hands-on supported teams in implementing automated tests

  • Lead an outsourced team (India) for the creation of testscripts

  • Organized workshops for clarifying functional requirements

• Agile Test Consultant - (Xebia), ZorgDomein

  Jul, 2014 - Apr, 20159 months

  Determined testing approach for application rebuild

  • Created a testing approach and embedded this in the development teams to allow for a rapid development process

  • Built test automation solutions for the frontend and the backend services

  • Built a solution to create any testdata on demand

  • Lead an outsourced team (India)

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