Evil8 partnered with Ahold Delhaize to develop a next-generation observability (o11y) platform for their TechNL IT organization, supporting the brands Albert Heijn, Etos, and Gall&Gall, comprising over 1,500 engineers. The o11y team is part of the Engineering Enablement Platform (EEP) department, which includes 150 people.Our mission included bootstrapping a new platform, facilitating key migrations, and building a self-sustaining team for future development. Evil8 provided two interim roles—Engineering Manager and Staff Engineer—to address the following challenges:Low maturity in observability practices and toolingHigh costs due to multiple licenses and expensive infrastructureTool sprawl with various monitoring solutions, including Nagios, Elastic, ADX, Prometheus, Dynatrace, and othersLow cohesion from lack of standardization and shared knowledgeWe delivered the platform's MVP within 3 months, achieving 80% team adoption in under a year. This rapid adoption enabled other teams to build novel solutions on top of the platform. We restructured the o11y team and established an effective work culture through strategic hiring, coaching, TDD, continuous deployment, and high-quality engineering.Technologically, we self-hosted the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, and Mimir), with Prometheus already widely in use. Grafana facilitated connections to existing data sources. High adoption resulted from designing the platform in an as-a-service model, allowing teams to use it independently of the platform team. To support this model, we offered standardized APIs (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Syslog, etc.) as integration points. We streamlined onboarding with existing IAM, prioritized comprehensive documentation, and provided first-class support. The platform’s multi-tenant design promotes efficient reuse of dashboards and alerts.We collaborated closely with IT leadership and other platform teams focused on Kubernetes, Azure, GitHub, and more.

Platform engineer at xxllncTasks:- Building a self service multi-tenant kubernetes cluster for development teams to deploy and manage their workloads. - Building automated end-to-end testing suite for testing infrastructure changes- Building a AWS-landingzone using AWS-organizations for development and ops-teams to manager there infrastructure - Support development teams on the platform/AWS-landingzonetechstack:- AWS- AWS control-tower- kubernetes/eks- terraform/terragrunt- gitlab CI/CDTools and applications- kyverno- rancher- cilium- AWS loadbalancer-controller- ginkgoAnd many more cloud-native toolingcoding- python- golang- bash

Responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure and application environment. Tools- Docker- Kubernetes- Ansible- Gitlab ci/cd- Azure- Linux (Ubuntu/Redhat)

I joined a team of 3 members including myself. The 3 of us where responsible for maintaining and managing the Tedial MAM environment for 3 different customers Roquefort, Ziggo sport and DMS.I solved bugs, troubleshoot issues, tested new changes and deployed the new changes to production.Daily I worked with setting up BPM workflows, configure integrated systems like transcoding(WFS) or scheduling systems(whatsonn)At NEP I participated in on-call shifts for the applicationmanagement department there the business expected a 24/7 uptime on the MAM environment and functionalities. Tasks;• Perform functional and regressions tests. Demonstrating UAT to business.• Detect bugs in the system and report them to development.• Deploy new changes to production.• Providing support to the customers and integrated system IT departments. • Providing support to the project department.• Analyze complex issues in the system and come up with a proper solution for all parties involved. Tools: Oracle SQL, Active Directory, Topdesk, Windows server 2012, SOAPUI, Jira, linux redhat, Tedial evolution, WFS, Whatsonn