Alexander Swen
SRE at Veiligheidsregio Noord- en Oost-Gelderland
Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAlexander Swen is an experienced SRE with 15 years of hands-on infrastructure and Linux expertise, currently driving reliability work at Capgemini after a long tenure shaping on-prem and hybrid container platforms at Nedap. He specializes in Debian, Nomad, Terraform, Python and automated provisioning (Redfish, Debian Installer, image-based installs), and prefers a "touch-it-once" approach that favors durable automation over repeated toil. Comfortable both in data centers and remote, distributed teams, he takes ownership of services and persists through hard problems while learning from mistakes. Outside of engineering he serves as a volunteer firefighter, reflecting a practical, service-first mindset that carries into conflict resolution and team harmony.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Inholland University of Applied SciencesBSVECL HaarlemMBO 3+4 MBI en Network Administrator, MBO 3+4 MBI en Network Administrator at CIOK/NOVA-College, BeverwijkManschap A, Manschap A at NIPV/VNOG/BOGO
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Github Skills (79)
python10
nagios10
django10
netbox10
network10
network-automation10
infrastructure-management9
puppet8
vagrant8
pdf-generation8
observium8
virtualization7
ruby7
socket7
collaborative-editing7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
aswen/dotfiles
Jun 2013 - Jun 2022
Contributions:480 commits, 154 pushes in 9 years 1 month
aswen/nagios-plugins
Jan 2012 - Jul 2019
Scripts and plugins for Nagios
Contributions:67 commits, 31 PRs, 40 pushes in 7 years 7 months
nagios
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