DevOps engineer who cofounded two companies, worked at Google for 9 years, and then at startups as a DevOps and software engineer.
I have in-depth knowledge of Linux, high-availability and horizontal scaling of on-premise and cloud deployments. I write code in Go and Python primarily.
I enjoy roles where I can gain both deep as well as broad knowledge, and have built up a broad set of skills that way: DevOps/SRE, software engineering, people management, and data engineering.
The Landbanking Group created www.landler.io, a platform that uses AI to monitor and enable investments in nature.
As the first DevOps engineer, I built and designed the infrastructure for Landler:
Lixo uses AI to categorize different types of recycables (glass, plastic, cardboard).
As Lixo's first DevOps engineer, I implemented various large improvements in deployment, monitoring, and fleet management. These required changes across several Python codebases: from code instrumentation to writing new services and tools from scratch.
Worked as a freelance DevOps engineer using Kubernetes, Envoy, Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, amongst others.
Agricool's on-premise software stack is a microservices architecture built with Go. I primarily worked on the infrastructure part of the software stack, which uses Debian Linux, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Envoy and Docker.
For the business critical sensor data, I designed and created a highly available solution for data collection from IoT sensors using Prometheus, Thanos and AWS.
Implemented the CI/CD for both the on-premise software stack and the software running on AWS. Also created fully automated provisioning of the devices running the on-premise software stack, from OS to application level.
Separately, I dealt with a large, sophisticated attack on our IT infrastructure that lasted several months.
Together with with Google Research, I worked on a project to help Google support agents in their support interactions with customers. I was responsible for the pipeline that generated the training data for the machine learning model.
Manager of a team of Technical Solutions Engineers (G Suite / Google Apps) in Zurich and Dublin.
Developing support tools for G Suite (now called Google Workspace), and supporting both our frontline support team as well as large enterprise customers directly.
While at Kumina I've designed and implemented solutions for several customers which need highly available, redundant infrastructure: companies from the Netherlands, the UK, Sweden and Denmark.
I also developed several websites, primarily written in Python (with Django and Plone.)
I was one of Cidev's two founders and owners. Cidev was a company specialised in supporting open source solutions for small and medium enterprises, mainly for office IT environments: setting up and supporting Samba fileservers, LDAP servers, PostgreSQL & MySQL databases, mail servers, and internal webservers. We also did small scale web hosting and a few programming projects.
Graduation date: July 2, 2004.
I was active in a students organization for open source enthusiasts called Interlink. From 2001 to 2002 I was part of the Interlink system administration team which maintained the Debian and NetBSD servers hosting the shell accounts, websites, and mail accounts for about 100 IT students.
Bart Cortooms — bart@hiccup.nl