Boy Van Duuren is a Mission Critical Engineer based in The Hague with 12 years of hands-on experience building and operating resilient datacenter and cloud automation systems. He combines deep Linux systems and DevOps expertise—spanning CFEngine, Ansible, Puppet, NGINX and Red Hat Satellite—with software development skills in Python and backend tooling for credential and configuration management. At Schuberg Philis and prior roles he has driven migrations, CI pipeline design, and secure infrastructure projects for government and healthcare clients, often bridging operations and development. An active open-source contributor, he has improved developer-focused tools like homesick and an Okta-AWS CLI helper, showing attention to reliable cloning, testing and credential workflows. Known for pragmatic engineering, he favors repeatable automation and has a knack for turning messy legacy environments into auditable, secure platforms.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Open Universiteit
Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Mondriaan
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Boy primarily focused on developing the backend functionality for managing AWS credentials and configurations. They implemented classes for handling AWS settings files, allowing for the addition and updating of profiles. Their contributions also involved integrating these credential management tools within the Okta AWS CLI tool, including writing the new credentials and configuration profiles. Further work included correcting the string used and supporting an empty configuration file.
Your home directory is your castle. Don't leave your dotfiles behind.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Boy primarily focused on improving the `homesick` tool's functionality related to cloning and managing dotfiles from GitHub repositories. They made several changes to the core `lib/homesick.rb` file to refine the GitHub cloning process, addressing how repositories are cloned based on the provided URI. Additionally, the user modified the spec file, suggesting that the user was also involved in testing and ensuring the tool's reliability. The user also updated the git clone command to include upstream configuration.
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Boy Van Duuren - Mission Critical Engineer at Schuberg Philis