Brend Smits
Senior DevOps Engineer - Software Engineering Excellence Platform
Eindhoven, North Brabant, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBrend Smits is a Senior DevOps engineer with a decade of hands-on experience improving developer experience and securing the software supply chain at Philips, where he scales mission-critical CI/CD platforms and manages over 100,000 GitHub Actions jobs daily. He combines deep operational expertise—from running large self-hosted ephemeral runners and Yocto builds to SBOMs, SLSA, and artifact signing—with a strong open/inner source evangelism that drove Philips’ OSPO and developer catalog initiatives. A summa cum laude Software Engineering graduate, Brend pairs research-minded curiosity (including behavioral-science-informed user nudging and tooling for continuous compliance) with practical product delivery. His early entrepreneurial background founding and operating a high-availability gaming community honed his reliability-first mindset, customer focus, and community-building skills.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc HBO ICT - Software Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc HBO ICT - Software Engineering at Fontys University of Applied SciencesCambridge English Language Assessments English Language and Literature General, Cambridge English Language Assessments English Language and Literature General at LOIHAVO Economie en Maatschappij, HAVO Economie en Maatschappij at Raayland College Venray
English, Dutch
Github Skills (200)
minecraft10
pnpm10
github10
forge10
firefox-addon10
terraform10
security10
infrastructure10
dx10
command-line-tool10
fabric10
serverless10
microservices10
backend10
sdk10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
philips-labs/continuous-compliance-action
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Continuous Compliance makes it possible to enforce company policy on repositories. Continuous Compliance will automatically check your repository for mandatory files or requirements. When possible, it will create detailed Github issue with instructions on how to resolve it.
Contributions:4 releases, 4 reviews, 30 commits in 1 year 1 month
policycontinuous-compliancemandatoryrepositoriesresolve
philips-forks/repolinter
Mar 2021 - Feb 2023
Repolinter, The Open Source Repository Linter
Contributions:6 reviews, 76 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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