Designing and implementing cloud native data processing platform for FedEx DataWorks. Responsible for Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, SDLC implementations and design for both data processing platform itself as well as project teams that are making use of its capabilities.Aside of building a global FedEx DataWorks data lake, one of the first and most prominent consumers of it was FedEx Surround which our team designed and provided infrastructure to, together with our partners from Microsoft.More info on FedEx Surround: https://www.fedex.com/en-us/innovation/data-transformation.htmlActively participating in development of terraform Azure provider.Tech stack: Azure (pretty much any service the cloud can offer), Terraform, Azure DevOps

Designing and implementing a next generation cloud-based platform for TNT/FedEx Digital that enables TNT/FedEx to iterate fast, delivering value to our customers with better predictability and quality, using modern technology stack, DevOps methodology and CI/CD best practices.Driving overall adoption of DevOps practices inside the organization. Member of tech leadership cluster. Interacting with other FedEx operational companies across the world for scaling DevOps adoption across the enterprise.Participating in internal and external audits to ensure that various compliance levels are met with minimal human interaction, dependencies and rubber-stamping. Interacting with change management and incident management organizations in order to facilitate automation of compliance-related processes.Responsible for interviewing and hiring platform engineers, acting as a product owner for our current and future platforms. Constantly in collaboration with developers in order to drive and facilitate continuous improvement mentality.Doing hands-on work with tech stack below.Technical expertise:AWS, Azure, Terraform, CoreOS, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, docker, fleet, ansible, Kubernetes, python, Golang, git, Jenkins.

Managing a team of 15 highly skilled operations (DevOps) engineers, participating in projects and other hands-on work, taking part in overall infrastructure architecture decisions. Responsible for operations of Marktplaats (marktplaats.nl), CAS International (internal multi-tenant eCG-wide product) and COMaaS (COMmunication as a Service, internal product around instant messaging).o Leading 3 sub-teams responsible for architecture and implementation of new technologies and solutions for the whole platform, day-to-day operations and support of Product Development departments (60+ people).o Managing stakeholders across the business of eBay Marktplaats ensuring timely delivery of solutions while keeping quality up-to-paro Guarding the overall level of system administration automation, striving for as much automation as possibleo Driving adoption of private cloud based on OpenStack and migration of the products from bare-metal hosting to the VPCo Driving migration of microservices towards scheduled workloads based on HashiCorp Nomad.o Keeping a look-out for new technologies and approaches, driving the innovation in the department by either experimenting with new tooling or developing the necessary tooling in-houseo Member of Cloud Steering Committee – a virtual team responsible for internal Cloud strategy and adoption.Tech stuff:o Installation and administration of systems based on Ubuntu Linuxo Extensive use of VMWare for testing and QA purposeso Extensive use of OpenStack on eCG's own private cloudo Various development work in Python, Java, Golango Docker, Vagrant, Terraform, Consul, Nomad are daily a mealo Using Saltstack, Puppet, Fabric and other CM/orchestration toolso Wrote a ChatOps bot for Slack in Golang to simplify some mundane tasks.

Managing a team of 13 highly skilled operations (DevOps) engineers, participating in projects and other hands-on work, taking part in overall infrastructure architecture decisions. Responsible for operations of Marktplaats (marktplaats.nl), CAS International (internal multi-tenant eCG-wide product) and COMaaS (COMmunication as a Service, internal product around instant messaging).• Leading 3 sub-teams responsible for architecture and implementation of new technologies and solutions for the whole platform, day-to-day operations and support of Product Development department (60+ people).• Managing stakeholders across the business of Marktplaats ensuring timely delivery of solutions while keeping quality up-to-par• Guarding the overall level of system administration automation, striving for as much automation as possible• Keeping a look-out for new technologies and approaches, driving the innovation in the department by either experimenting with new tooling or developing the necessary tooling in-house• Member of product Architecture Guild – a virtual team responsible for overall product architecture decisions. Team consists of frontend developers, backend developers, QA engineers, operations engineers and is responsible for general steering of technology-related initiatives in the companyTech stuff:• Installation and administration of systems based on Ubuntu Linux • Installation and administration of systems based on Sun Solaris 10 • Extensive use of VMWare for testing and QA purposes• Extensive use of OpenStack on eCG's own private cloud• Various development work in Python, Java, Go• Implemented a system for bare-metal provisioning based on PuppetDB/Puppet driven data. System controls services like DHCP, DNS, OS-seeders, configures DRAC, switches – all that is needed to purpose a bare-metal server in an environment and hand it over to puppet for final software and OS configuration. Written in Python.

Maintenance, roll-outs and administration of marktplaats.nl server farm.• Installation and administration of systems based on Debian Linux• Installation and administration of systems based on Sun Solaris 10• Design and implementation of Solaris Jumpstart servers with various configurations• Integration of systems with OpenLDAP for authentication and access control• Extensive use of VMWare for testing and QA purposes• Various development work in PHP, Python or C• EMC Clariion configuration, zoning, fine-tuning, administration• Brocade fiber-switches configuration and administrationResponsible for implementation of a non-service-affecting deployment procedure for java-based software. Advising on operations architecture of high-available infrastructure to ensure low operational costs while guaranteeing service delivery agreements.Technical expertise:Debian Linux, Solaris 10 (sparc, x86-64), Solaris zoning, jumpstart, OpenLDAP, VMWare, VMWare ESX, postfix, MySQL, Veritas Cluster, VxFS, EMC Clariion, EMC PowerPath, Brocade, PHP, XML, Python, XML-RPC, SOAP, Fabric, Puppet, git.

VLF Networks B.V. is a privately held company based in Leiden, the Netherlands. We are providing ICT consultancy services to our customers aiming at greater customer satisfaction, shorter delivery periods, better quality and strong long-term business relationships. Our focus is in the areas of UNIX administration, network administration and security, enterprise solutions architecture and many more.Our outsourcing department is specializing in software development using various programming languages/technologies, including but not limited to: C, C++, Java, C#, J#, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, Perl, Python, PHP, Shell scripting. You will be assigned a Dutch/English speaking project manager/architect who will go with you through all project requirements/planning details and will remain single point of contact for you for the whole duration of the project.We are constantly looking for new colleagues to join us in building a successful name for our company in the market.

Maintenance, roll-outs and administration of eBay classifieds server farm for Kijiji, Gumtree, Marktplaats.• Installation and administration of systems based on Debian Linux• Installation and administration of systems based on Sun Solaris 10• Solaris zoning (including Linux brandz zones, default and lx26 for 2.6 kernel support)• Design and implementation of Solaris Jumpstart servers with various configurations• Integration of systems with OpenLDAP for authentication and access control• Extensive use of VMWare for testing and QA purposes• Various development work in PHP, Python or C• Veritas Suite installation and configuration• EMC Clariion configuration, zoning, fine-tuning, administration• Brocade fiber-switches configuration and administrationDebian Linux, Solaris 10 (sparc, x86-64), Solaris zoning, jumpstart, OpenLDAP, VMWare, VMWare ESX, postfix, MySQL, Veritas Cluster, VxFS, EMC Clariion, EMC PowerPath, Brocade, PHP, XML, Python, XML-RPC, SOAP.

Development of Java solutions for GX WebManager 9 platform, design and development of interoperability software and modules to ensure successful data migrations between various CMS and GX9.• Content migration utilities (Java)• Various Java plug-ins and extensions for GX9• PHP development (XML/SOAP)• Design and planning of development projects• Participation in customer brainstorm sessionsTechnical expertise: RedHat Linux, MySQL, Windows 2003 Server, MS SQL, Java, PHP, XML, SOAP

AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 installation and administration. NIM management. HMC management. Participating in management and implementation of upgrade projects. Participating in Change Management processes. Participating in Back Office activities (3rd line support). Creation of PDD (Product Detailed Description) for various projects. HACMP installation and configuration. WLM installation and configuration.Attended the following education courses:HACMP Administration I (3 days)HACMP Administration II (3 days)HACMP Administration III (3 days)AIX V5 Problem determination skills (5 days)

Development and maintenance of software “buildstreet”, i.e. cross-platform build environment. Supporting colleagues in all aspects of software building.• Maintaining POSIX-compliant build environment• Porting software to various platforms• Adapting build environments to work with new tooling and tooling updates• Porting Windows build environment from Cygwin to Interix.• Advising on various software-building topics, including but not limited to choice of tooling, environment configuration, etc.Technical expertise: Large number of port-target platforms: Linux, Windows, AIX, Tru64, Solaris, HP-UX, OS/400. Programming in C/C++/Java. Maintaining large portable build environment based on shell scripting and GNU toolset (make/gcc). VC7, VC8.

• Linux administration including kickstart solutions• Extensive use of Veritas Provisioning Manager for automation of application deployment and configuration• Design and implementation of networks and solutionsapplications including, but not limited to: WAP Gateways, MMSC, Central Directory Server• Active participation in various design processes. Author of various improvements at low as well as large scale• Providing support to the Operations department and to the Testing department with regards to the newly designed solutions and products• Wrote a client application for OpForce to be used in ops dpt (Java, PHP)• Wrote a web-based application in Java to allow early fault detection on the systems managed by Veritas Provisioning Manager. Tools involved: CVS, Shell scripting, Java programming, Java servlet programming.• Constantly developing tools in various languages (Java, PHP, C)

• Linux administration including kickstart solutions• Sun Solaris administration and integration of applications based on Solaris• Integration of LogicaCMG applications, including automated installation procedures and automated configuration• Extensive use of Veritas OpForce for automation of application deployment and configuration• Design and implementation of networks and solutions applications including, but not limited to: WAP Gateways, MMSC, Central Directory Server• Active participation in various design processes. Author of various improvements at low as well as large scale• Providing support to the Operations department and to the Testing department with regards to the newly designed solutions and products• Making contact with Product Development centers to ensure successful product integration process• Wrote a client application for OpForce to be used in ops dpt (Java, PHP)• Constantly developing tools in various languages (Java, PHP, C)

Providing 2nd and 3rdline technical support to international customers all over the world.Compaq Tru64 administration, Sun Solaris administration and Linux administration.Support of WAP gateway built by LogicaCMG, including fine tuning, bug fixing and installation/upgrades.Support of PPG (Push Proxy Gateway) built by LogicaCMG, including fine tuning, bug fixing and installation/upgrades.Roll-outs of high-availability clusters, based on Tru64 with ASE availability manager, Sun Solaris 5.8 with Sun Cluster Suite and Veritas Clustering software in-house and at a customer sites in Switzerland, Russia, United Kingdom, Sweden, Greece.Problems investigation and debugging of complex software on all levels (Network to Application levels) including but not limited to network traffic analysis, protocol specifications analysis and software bug reports analysis.Took part in the design of a global roll-out automation system for clustering environment (platform transparent)