Eric Van Dijken
Sebatical
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Van Dijken is a seasoned Linux and cloud engineer with over 11 years of experience building and operating production-grade infrastructures across OpenStack, OpenShift, Red Hat ecosystems and VMware-based SDDC environments. He has repeatedly led migrations and large-scale managed services (>200 nodes) and has hands-on experience automating and operating platforms using Salt, GitLab, Ansible and Satellite. Recent projects include architecting a low-power, no-SSH Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi/CM4 using Sidero and Talos, showing a taste for unconventional, edge-friendly engineering. His background spans enterprise customers like Shell and national institutions, combining deep Unix roots (Tru64/AIX) with modern cloud-native practices. Based in Groningen, he pairs practical system administration with team leadership and training experience, mentoring juniors into production roles. Outside the obvious, he’s comfortable designing highly automated installable OS stacks and has a long track record of restoring and stabilizing complex Linux environments.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
HTS Informatica, Groningen
English, German
Github Skills (18)
evo7
musl6
linux6
linux-distribution6
oms5
chroot5
kubernetes4
controller4
containerd4
ethereum4
grpc4
go3
cockpit3
arduino3
cloud-native3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Moki38/wbus-arduino
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 17 days
controlleresp8266arduinoiotevo
Moki38/Moki-ROV2
Sep 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:27 commits, 103 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 6 months
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