Ben De Haan
Security Consultant at Cybermeister
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBen De Haan is a security consultant and engineer with 11 years of experience helping organisations adopt secure cloud and DevSecOps practices across AWS and Kubernetes. He has led hands-on implementations of secret management, SCA/SAST/DAST pipelines, and monitoring/detection foundations while coaching teams and delivering threat modelling and security trainings. His open-source work includes automating Vault, Consul and secrets-store integrations for the widely referenced OWASP/wrongsecrets project, demonstrating a practical focus on safe secrets handling in complex environments. Based in Utrecht, he blends deep technical delivery with practitioner-led education, and has a background in medical informatics that informs his methodical, evidence-driven approach to security.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Certified Professional Program IT Security Engineer, Certified Professional Program IT Security Engineer at Open UniversiteitMaster’s Degree Medical Informatics, Master’s Degree Medical Informatics at University of AmsterdamVWO-gymnasium TTO (Bilingual) Natuur & Gezondheid Natuur & Techniek, VWO-gymnasium TTO (Bilingual) Natuur & Gezondheid Natuur & Techniek at SG Tabor locatie Werenfridus
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
devsecops10
docker10
secret-management10
bash10
dockers10
secrets10
secrets-manager10
aws10
helm10
vault10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
gcp9
mean-stack6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OWASP/wrongsecrets
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Vulnerable app with examples showing how to not use secrets
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Security Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Security EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 19 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to setting up and configuring infrastructure related to secrets management and integrating it with Kubernetes. They automated the deployment of Vault, Consul, and the secrets-store-csi-driver, and configured authentication for Kubernetes. Furthermore, they introduced the AWS Secrets Manager and GCP challenges to the application. Their changes included scripting to bootstrap environments, modifications to existing templates and code, and setting up services.
gcpctfvaultsecrets-managementaws
benno001/vault-in-practice
Mar 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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