Professional Experience

Head of Platform

Buckaroo

Utrecht, Netherlands · Hybrid

January 2024 - Present

Leading a team of DevOps engineers, responsible for driving the strategy, design, and implementation of a centralized internal developer platform that powers multiple engineering teams across the organization.

Our mission is to empower developers by abstracting infrastructure complexity and providing a seamless, scalable, and secure platform that enables faster delivery of high-quality software.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Team Leadership: Leading a team of skilled DevOps engineers, providing technical guidance, mentoring, and fostering a culture of ownership and collaboration.
  • Platform Engineering: Designing and evolving a centralized platform that supports self-service infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and runtime environments.
  • Developer Experience: Continuously improving the usability, reliability, and performance of the platform to enhance the developer experience and reduce cognitive load.
  • Operations & Reliability: Ensuring the platform itself is robust, highly available, secure, and monitored, with clearly defined SLAs and incident response practices.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Working closely with development teams, security, and product stakeholders to align platform capabilities with engineering needs and business goals.

DevOps Technical Lead

Buckaroo

Utrecht, Netherlands

July 2022 - February 2024

  • Implemented Kubernetes(K8s) clusters to manage the transition to fully managed containerized workloads
  • Set up a landingzone following the AWS well architected framework
  • Migrated all workloads to AWS with minimal downtime using DMS for online datastore replication, ensuring cloud-native migration
  • Ensured development teams could work efficiently following DevOps principles
  • Architected AWS accounts to meet PCI-compliance standards
  • Created internal applications and packages for development teams to easily deploy infrastructure or set up CI/CD
  • Provided training and instruction to development teams on solutions and frameworks

Skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Infrastructure as code (IaC) · Azure DevOps · DevOps

DevOps Engineer

Buckaroo

Utrecht, Netherlands

January 2020 - December 2022

Skills and technologies: Azure DevOps, Octopus deploy, Docker, Kubernetes, Unix server management, HAProxy load balancing, .NET core, Python, Cypress

System Administrator

Buckaroo

Utrecht, Netherlands

August 2017 - January 2020

  • Unix administration (Oracle Linux & Ubuntu 16.04/18.04)
  • Advised, set up and managed all hardware in the datacenters
  • VMware multi cluster management
  • GitOps implementation
  • Configuration management (Puppet & Ansible)
  • Set up new production environments adhering to the latest DevOps standards

Senior System Administrator

MyBit Multimedia development BV

Media park, Hilversum, Netherlands

January 2015 - August 2017

  • Coordinated and executed system and network-related tasks
  • Updated, maintained, and monitored all systems and connections
  • Executed tasks within infrastructure projects or other projects requiring infrastructure modifications
  • Performed and verified backups
  • Managed documentation, passwords, and access policies
  • Supported the support department during emergencies
  • Ensured compliance with information security agreements

Support and Implementation Specialist

Newsbyte B.V.

Hilversum Media Park - Gateway D, Netherlands

March 2014 - June 2014

  • Provided technical support for implementations and installations in network and distribution systems
  • Maintained office automation systems
  • Developed and maintained documentation for existing systems