Aaldert Van Wijk
Developer at alliander
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAaldert Van Wijk is a pragmatic developer with 10 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems, currently working in Kotlin on OpenShift at Alliander after four years doing DevOps and Kubernetes at TomTom. He blends a philosopher’s analytical rigor with hands-on engineering discipline—favoring domain modeling and Test Driven Development to produce elegant, maintainable solutions. His background spans Java back-ends, Angular front-ends, Terraform-driven infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, and he has contributed to the Terraform GitLab provider by adding group membership and project variable management with tests. Comfortable in small, collaborative teams, he prefers substance over bureaucracy and actively improves team workflows through automation and clear design. Trained in political philosophy, he brings a reflective, systems-thinking approach to technical tradeoffs and team dynamics.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MA Political Philosophy, MA Political Philosophy at Radboud University
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
terraformer10
go10
gitlab-api10
terraform10
testing9
cicd8
ctime6
windows6
gmt6
winapi6
windows-xp6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gitlabhq/terraform-provider-gitlab
Aug 2018 - Oct 2019
Terraform GitLab Provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Aaldert primarily contributed to the Terraform provider for GitLab, adding features related to group membership management, project variables, and related testing. They introduced the ability to manage group memberships, including updates to access levels and expire times. The user also updated project variable management features within the provider. The commits include the addition of testing frameworks to validate the configurations.
terraform-providerprovidergitlabterraform
sudoapt-getclean/terraform-provider-gitlab
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Terraform GitLab provider
Contributions:23 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
terraform-providerprovidergitlabterraform
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