I am a platform engineer, currently working at the Dutch Ministry of Defence on cloud-native platforms and distributed systems for air-gapped/critical environments. Most of my time goes to Kubernetes and Go.

Before that, I was a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Just Eat Takeaway.com, leading development of a large-scale distributed Data and AI/ML platform on Kubernetes, with multi-cloud abstractions and developer tooling in Go that let teams self-serve through a CLI, SDK, API, and portal.

Earlier, I worked at HashiCorp on Terraform, focusing on the plugin ecosystem and contributing features such as S3-native state locking, ephemeral resources, and plugin testing capabilities. Before that, I built distributed systems and platforms at various startups and companies.

I am an active open-source contributor and serve as a Technical Lead in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) TAG Infrastructure, where I help guide and evaluate cloud-native infrastructure projects.

My focus is making things simpler in software, systems, and delivery. I have a deep passion for infrastructure, configuration management, DNS, networking, and language design (lexers and parsers). For programming, I gravitate toward Go, Zig, and C#.