Andrej Van Der Zee
AWS Cloud & Security Engineer at Tintra Foundation
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrej Van Der Zee is an AWS Cloud EKS engineer and founder of the blockchain project Flare Sensei, with 11 years of experience building secure, cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, HashiCorp products (notably backend contributions to HashiCorp Vault), and Golang with a strong security focus across federated IAM and EKS deployments. His career spans major enterprise environments including ING and ZorgDomein, plus roles delivering continuous performance and infrastructure engineering across the Netherlands. Academically rigorous, he holds a PhD from Waseda University and a Cum Laude Master's from the University of Amsterdam, reflecting a blend of research depth and practical delivery. Andrej is an early adopter of alpha/beta technologies who prefers simple, auditable solutions to complex problems, and he has directly improved critical Vault functionality such as AWS credential management and Cassandra plugin resilience.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Research Computer Science, Research Computer Science at Research at Waseda University, TokyoExchange Student Computer Science, Exchange Student Computer Science at Exchange Student at University of New South Wales, SydneyPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at PhD at Waseda University, TokyoCum Laude Master, Cum Laude Master at University of Amsterdam
Github Skills (10)
authentication10
user-authentication10
go10
aws10
secrets10
vault10
cassandra9
api8
database-management8
apidoc8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault
Jul 2018 - Mar 2021
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 13 PRs, 73 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrej primarily contributed to the backend logic of the Vault project, focusing on authentication methods, AWS credential management, and database plugins. Their work included fixing configuration issues, implementing features like setting TTLs for STS credentials, and adding enhancements such as socket keep-alive options for the Cassandra plugin. Further contributions included implementing identity templating and incorporating datacenter awareness for Cassandra deployments, enhancing the project's security and functionality.
access-managementencryptionvaultgosecrets
andrejvanderzee/vault-k8s
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
First-class support for Vault and Kubernetes.
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
k8skuberneteskubeletvault
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