Ben de Haan
Security Engineer at ENACT-IT
Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarBen de Haan is a Netherlands-based security engineer with six years of hands-on experience as a freelance security consultant and engineer, specializing in cloud-native deployments and secrets management. He has practical expertise integrating Vault and cloud secret managers and deploying secure applications on GCP and Kubernetes, with additional configuration experience across AWS environments. As a DevOps-focused contributor to the widely referenced OWASP/wrongsecrets project, he builds reproducible infrastructure and scripts that demonstrate common secret-misuse patterns and remediation. Ben blends pragmatic engineering with threat-aware controls, favoring automated, auditable deployments that reduce human error in secrets handling. Notably, his background shows a focus on making secure infrastructure teachable and repeatable for teams adopting cloud-native stacks.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
kubernetes-pods10
gcp10
dockers9
docker9
aws8
security8
azure4
microsoft-azure4
javas3
java3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OWASP/wrongsecrets
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Vulnerable app with examples showing how to not use secrets
Role in this project:
DevOps & Security Engineer
DevOps & Security EngineerContributions:1 release, 283 reviews, 92 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the infrastructure and configuration of the `wrongsecrets` repository, focusing on cloud deployments using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes. Their work includes scripting for setting up Vault, integrating with secret managers, and deploying applications within a Kubernetes environment. The user also made modifications to the application's configuration, especially around AWS and GCP environments.
gcpctfvaultsecrets-managementaws
bendehaan/datadog-api-client-go
Feb 2021 - Jul 2022
Golang client for the Datadog API
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
golangapidatadog-apigolang-clientdatadog
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