Bas Van Kampen
Lead Architect at SUSE
Brabantine City Row United Kingdom
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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
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Github Skills (25)
docker10
rke9
container-management9
kubernetes9
rancher9
cattle9
orchestration9
cluster-api8
bootstrap8
kubeconfig7
k8s5
hci5
kubernetes-cluster5
startup4
gitops4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bvankampen/dotfiles
Dec 2015 - Jan 2026
Contributions:4 PRs, 346 pushes, 6 branches in 10 years 2 months
bvankampen/kubeconfig-selector
May 2023 - Jul 2026
Simple Kubernetes Kubeconfig Cluster Selector
Contributions:13 releases, 24 PRs, 52 pushes in 3 years 2 months
kubeconfigkubernetes
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