Dennis Vriend
Senior DevOps Engineer at VodafoneZiggo
Netherlands
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Top SchoolDennis Vriend is a Senior DevOps and Cloud Architect with 12+ years building resilient, cloud-native systems and establishing SRE disciplines across organizations in the Netherlands and EMEA. He combines deep hands-on expertise in AWS/GCP, serverless, containers and event-driven architectures with practical Generative AI and MLOps experience using Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker. Dennis has a strong functional-programming background (Scala/Akka) and contributed to notable open-source projects like akka-persistence-jdbc, where he improved build and deployment workflows and added multi-database support. As a consultant and trainer for Lightbend and Ilionx, he bridges engineering and business strategy—currently augmenting that with formal BBA studies—to ensure technical designs deliver measurable ROI. His career spans high-impact engagements from Booking.com and Flow Traders to public institutions like KNMI, showing an ability to navigate both fast-paced product teams and critical infrastructure. Outside work he channels discipline and focus as a Wado Ryu Karate black belt, a trait that informs his methodical approach to complex cloud transformations.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesBachelor of Science - BS Business Administration, Bachelor of Science - BS Business Administration at Open Universiteit
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (16)
dependency-manager10
dependency-management10
sbt10
postgresql10
dependency-analysis10
mysql10
build-automation10
scala10
oracles9
oracle9
java6
akka-cluster6
playframework6
ebean6
akka-persistence6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
akka/akka-persistence-jdbc
Jul 2014 - Jun 2017
Asynchronously writes journal and snapshot entries to configured JDBC databases so that Akka Actors can recover state
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 336 commits, 39 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Dennis made several contributions related to setting up and configuring the project's build and deployment processes. This includes adding repository artifacts and build settings to ensure the project dependencies are managed efficiently. The user also migrated the project to Bintray to manage the project's release process. Moreover, the user added various configurations to the project like Oracle support, and H2 and MySQL setups.
journalasynchronouslyakka-actorsdatabasesscala
dnvriend/lagom-test
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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