Erik Ruiter
Principal Network Engineer at Digital Realty
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Ruiter is a Principal Network Engineer based in Amsterdam with 13 years of experience designing and operating IP, VSAT and high-performance research networks. He combines deep telecom roots—capacity planning, peering and satellite link budgeting—with modern interests in SDN, network automation and virtualization, driving practical tooling for monitoring and management. At Digital Realty and SURFsara he has bridged operational support and network innovation for HPC and enterprise environments, turning complex requirements into resilient, documented architectures. Comfortable coding monitoring/control systems from earlier roles, he brings both hands-on implementation skills and strategic network design experience.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Degree, Higher Informatics, Bachelor Degree, Higher Informatics at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English
Github Skills (12)
plug9
napalm8
network-automation8
netmiko8
cisco8
ansible6
ruby6
automation5
python4
api2
cpython2
firewall2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sara-nl/racktables
Jun 2014 - Aug 2015
RackTables source code
Contributions:21 commits, 23 pushes in 1 year 2 months
sara-nl/eth-oam
Apr 2013 - Mar 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 1 push in 4 years
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