Eric Van Laar
Managing Partner at Skillsoft
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolEric Van Laar is a managing partner and Azure Cloud Engineer with over 15 years of hands-on experience in hybrid infrastructures, migrations, and enterprise cloud architecture. He combines practical consultancy and training roles—serving as a Microsoft Certified Trainer at multiple organizations—with deep technical expertise across ARM, networking, identity, security, automation, and cost optimization in Azure. Eric has led sourcing and program initiatives for large organizations and built his own cloud consultancy, delivering both strategic IT sourcing and tactical implementations like ExpressRoute, Site Recovery, and Azure governance. Based in Nijmegen, he pairs a background in technical engineering and vocational education with a knack for turning complex legacy datacenter challenges into automated, secure cloud solutions. An educator at heart, he repeatedly translates operational complexity into teachable, repeatable practices for teams and clients.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Water Resources Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Water Resources Engineering at Johannes Kepler Universität LinzBachelor of Technology - BTech, Bedrijfskunde voor Informatici, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Bedrijfskunde voor Informatici at Fontys University of Applied SciencesBachelor of Education - BEd, Bachelor of Education - BEd at HAN University of Applied Sciences
Github Skills (3)
azure5
terraform4
azure-functions3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ericvanlaargmailcom/azure
Jun 2018 - Apr 2025
Azurewebsitesamples
Contributions:7 PRs, 460 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 11 months
azure
ericvanlaargmailcom/calculator
Nov 2020 - Apr 2023
A node.js demo application
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
node-jsjavascriptnodejsmongodb
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