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Work Experience

Java Software Engineer

01/2023 – Present | Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Freelance)

  • Maintaining and further developing over 15 Java microservices with the sole purpose of keeping customers informed about service disruptions and possible travel advice.

Senior DevOps Engineer

03/2022 – 12/2022 | Nationale Nederlanden (Freelance)

  • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for creation of Azure resources.
  • Developed way of working to create reusable hardened images to be used for Virtual Machine deployments. This resulted in stable but fast releases in all environments.
  • Developed Java Spring Boot API and maintained API serving information from Neo4j to all clients.
  • Implemented alerting and monitoring with Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk.
  • Deployed multiple Helm projects from Azure DevOps to Kubernetes. These projects had all different prerequisites, but different stages in the deployments made sure that these prerequisites were being met.

Senior Solution Engineer

09/2018 – 02/2022 | Capgemini Netherlands

  • Designed and implemented IT-architecture based on 10+ containerized Spring Boot microservices leveraging message queueing, relational databases, a graph database and an in-memory database for caching
  • Developed REST API translating simple requests into large SPARQL-queries, transforming results back to easy to interpret JSON responses
  • Setup logging and monitoring using the ELK-stack
  • Setup continuous integration and deployment pipelines in Gitlab for various projects and programming languages
  • Managed 15+ young professionals in their first years at the company

Applications Consultant

01/2018 – 08/2018 | NAVARA

  • Maintained and improved Java-based IT-landscape for a high-tech customer responsible for the infrastructure used for charging electric cars throughout Europe
  • Innovated IT-landscape by migrating from on-premise physical Linux machines running Spring Boot microservices to Microsoft Azure environment, fully containerized and including Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines

Senior Enterprise Content Management Consultant

10/2012 – 12/2017 | Capgemini Netherlands

  • Delivered both functional and technical designs for document management implementations
  • Implemented information management systems for government agencies based on IBM FileNet (Java) and OpenText Content Server (OScript)
  • Designed and implemented workflows supporting document management, process management and records management