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