Hi, I am Benjamin

I am a devops engineer
I am a platform engineer
I am a SRE
I specialize in observability
Let's build something amazing together!

Benjamin van der Vleuten

Devops / Platform / SRE at Van der Vleuten Consulting

I enable developers to deliver value faster by providing them with the tools and infrastructure they need to build, test and deploy their applications.

Key Skills

Kubernetes

Skilled in deploying and managing production-grade Kubernetes clusters, with experience in writing Kubernetes operators.

Golang (Go)

Extensive experience in programming, including Golang. Used for writing microservices, CLI tools, and more.

Cloud Native

Experienced with cloud-native technologies, running on either AWS, Azure, Cloudflare or on premise.

Docker

Container runtimes such as Docker and Kaniko used for building and running containers.

Observability

Production-ready observability using Grafana, Loki, Mimir and Prometheus for dashboarding, logs, metrics, and tracing. Also, experienced with writing metric exporters.

CI/CD

Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab CI, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions.

Gitlab

Experienced with git-based development. Mostly, use Github. Also, have experience in working with GitLab.

Configuration as Code

Managed infrastructure as code using Terraform, Helm, and Ansible.

GitOps

Implemented GitOps principles using ArgoCD and Flux to manage Kubernetes clusters.

Projects

Dutch National Police

March 2024 - Present

Nieuwegein

The Dutch National Police develops and maintains many different applications to support their officers in the field. Many of the innovative solutions require a modern approach to infrastructure and deployment. Some applications are time-sensitive, therefore the platform has to enable developers to deploy their applications quickly and securely using self-service.

DevOps Engineer

March 2024 - Present

Responsibilities:

Designed and implemented the monitoring stack on Kubernetes.
Improved efficiency of hardware usage of Gitlab.
Standardized deployment strategy using configuration as code.
Led the design for a self-service Golang application for OAuth configuration.

Energie Data Services Nederland (EDSN)

March 2022 - January 2024

Amersfoort

EDSN facilitates energy market processes in the Netherlands by providing data services to grid operators and energy suppliers.

Platform Engineer

March 2022 - January 2024

Responsibilities:

Designed and implemented Kubernetes Operators in Golang for the API Gateway.
Migrated numberous applications to a single entrypoint (gateway), allowing EDSN to standarize their endpoint security guidelines.
Improved capacity management of the Nginx reverse proxy and Kong by executing performance tests.
Implemented observability for all components.