Summary
Ernest Neijenhuis is a Platform Engineer with nine years of focused experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms using Kubernetes, OpenShift and Rancher, backed by strong IaC and automation skills (Terraform, Ansible, Git). He has a track record of transforming legacy hosting into secure, scalable platforms for public and private clouds—leading migrations, incident teams and GitOps rollouts for clients like Belastingdienst and Picnic. Certified CKA/CKAD/RHCE and experienced as a trainer and coach, he blends hands-on troubleshooting with people leadership and a knack for translating technical issues into business impact. Ernest pairs a practical engineering mindset with hobbies in electronics and 3D printing, often building tools and scripts to make his own life (and teams’) work easier. Based in Utrecht, he prefers to be engaged through his agency Qstars IT and thrives in collaborative, improvement-focused environments.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Electronics & Telecom, Bachelor of Engineering Electronics & Telecom at HAN University of Applied Sciences
HAVO Dutch English German Physics Math Chemistry, HAVO Dutch English German Physics Math Chemistry at Nederrijn College, Arnhem
Dutch, English, German