Bas Van Kampen
Lead Architect at SUSE
Brabantine City Row United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBas Van Kampen is a Lead Architect with 25+ years in IT and over a decade focused on cloud, datacenter and storage solutions, currently shaping architecture at SUSE. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Linux, Kubernetes, automation and data protection with extensive professional services and field engineering experience across European enterprises. His career traces progressive technical leadership from system engineering and operations to cloud architecture and global professional services, delivering both virtual and physical infrastructure solutions. Known for translating complex storage and backup requirements into automated, production-ready designs, he bridges engineering rigor with customer-facing consultancy. Based in the UK with roots in the Netherlands, he brings practical operational insight often missing from pure cloud architects—especially around integrating legacy datacenter environments with modern container platforms.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science (IT Management & Security), Bachelor's Degree Computer Science (IT Management & Security) at Fontys University of Applied SciencesMBO Computer Science, MBO Computer Science at TLE Eindhoven
English, Dutch
Github Skills (15)
docker10
rancher10
bootstrap9
container9
cattle9
orchestration9
api9
container-management9
kubernetes9
cluster-api8
plane7
startup6
k8s6
gitops4
ansible4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bvankampen/kubeconfig-selector
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Simple Kubernetes Kubeconfig Cluster Selector
Contributions:13 releases, 24 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 10 months
bvankampen/dotfiles
Dec 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 322 pushes, 6 branches in 9 years 5 months
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