Edwin Smulders
Senior Platform Engineer
Utrecht Area Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolEdwin Smulders is a Senior Platform Engineer with 18 years of experience specializing in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Terraform and security-focused platform engineering. He combines hands-on implementation—migrating CI/CD to Tekton, moving clusters to managed services, and building multi-account AWS environments—with leadership roles as product owner and team lead. A seasoned freelancer and current ASML platform engineer, he helps teams adopt GitOps, improve security posture, and automate toil across Azure and AWS. His background in penetration testing and an MSc in Computer Security give him a pragmatic, threat-aware approach to infrastructure design. Notably, he balances strategic roadmap work with deep technical delivery, often taking initiative to shepherd long migrations and compliance-driven projects. Based in Utrecht, he’s actively seeking interesting cloud projects and consultancy engagements.
18 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Security (Kerckhoff's Institute), MSc Computer Security (Kerckhoff's Institute) at University of TwenteVWO N&T, VWO N&T at Dollard College
Japanese, English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (200)
autocomplete10
proxy10
automation10
k8s10
fiddler10
jsonnet10
home-automation10
musl10
dokku10
typeahead10
privacy10
python10
argocd10
declarative10
home-assistant10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Dutchy-/volatility-plugins
Jul 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:17 commits in 3 months
Dutchy-/tf-personal
Jul 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
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