Erik Veld
Co-Founder at Instruqt
Netherlands
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Top SchoolErik Veld is a Dutch software entrepreneur and developer-relations leader with 11 years of experience building hands-on learning platforms and developer communities. As Co-Founder of Instruqt he focuses on sandboxed, challenge-driven environments that let users learn DevOps and cloud tooling by doing, blending product vision with practical infrastructure design. Previously he led developer relations at HashiCorp, scaling advocacy and education for infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native workflows. His background spans full-stack development, consulting, and teaching, rooted in formal studies in software engineering and AI. Notably, he repeatedly returns to building interactive learning experiences, showing a rare combination of product-led growth instincts and deep technical empathy for developer users.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Software Engineering, BSc, Software Engineering at Hanzehogeschool GroningenBSc, Communication & MultiMedia Design, BSc, Communication & MultiMedia Design at Noordelijke Hogeschool LeeuwardenH.N. Werkmancollege GroningenArtificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at University of Groningen
English, German, Danish, Dutch, French
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Github Skills (123)
integrations10
terraform10
consul10
infrastructure10
microservices10
cloud-native10
terraform-module10
service-mesh10
data-center10
terraform-cloud10
hashicorp10
scale10
service-discovery10
vault10
golang10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
eveld/migrating-applications-with-service-mesh-demo
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Tutorial for migrating applications using a service mesh
Contributions:18 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
consulmeshkubernetesservice-mesh
eveld/packer-gcp-nomad
Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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