Ben Taljaard
Senior Solution Architect at Red Hat
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBen Taljaard is a Senior Solution Architect based in The Hague with 10 years of experience modernising enterprise middleware and driving cloud-native transformations. He has a strong background in Oracle Fusion Middleware, integration platforms and microservices, and has led teams and pilots that migrated telco and energy customers to scalable microservice platforms. At Red Hat he combines product-level architecture with hands-on implementation, having previously acted as both a technical product owner and DevOps engineer on iPaaS and AWS infrastructure. Ben's career shows a practical mix of consulting, delivery and leadership—scrum master, team lead and solution architect roles—across multiple continents and large-scale clients. He’s comfortable bridging legacy enterprise stacks and modern cloud platforms, and often proves approaches via POCs before scaling them into production. His rare blend of deep middleware expertise and cloud-first delivery makes him effective at turning complex integration challenges into operational platforms.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Matric, Matric at Newton Technical High SchoolHonours, Computer Science and Information Systems, Honours, Computer Science and Information Systems at University of Port Elizabeth
Afrikaans, English, Dutch
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Github Skills (35)
java8
ubi8
reactive8
compile7
multiarch7
cloud-native6
linux6
amazon-web-services6
environment-variables6
python6
kubernetes6
boto6
armhf4
quarkus-native4
armv64
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
qiot-project/qiot-ubi-multiarch-builder
Dec 2020 - Jan 2022
A project to create a quarkus native builder based on qiot-ubi-multiarch. This allows you to compile a native quarkus image for different target architectures than the host.
Contributions:1 review, 20 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 1 month
architectureshostcompilebuilderkubernetes
bentaljaard/ocp_311_install
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:155 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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