Erwin Kooi
Site Reliability Engineer at Empire Life
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolErwin Kooi is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Kingston, Ontario with over a decade of software development experience and eight years in professional roles spanning full-stack and SRE responsibilities. He brings deep expertise in PHP, Java/J2EE and MySQL—backed by multiple certifications—and a history of leading web development projects at Empire Life and Macadamian. Comfortable in both hands-on engineering and team leadership, he has transitioned from freelance and contract work to driving reliability and delivery in a corporate environment. Fluent in Dutch and English and educated in Laboratory Informatics and Automation, he combines systems thinking with pragmatic, open-source-friendly tooling. An understated strength is his long-running practice of integrating legacy systems (Oracle, CodeIgniter) with modern stacks, enabling pragmatic modernization without disruptive rewrites.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Laboratory Informatics and Automation (LIA), Bachelor of Science, Laboratory Informatics and Automation (LIA) at Saxion HogescholenHAVO, beta, HAVO, beta at Jacobus College
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
opentelemetry8
charts8
kubernetes7
helm7
pdf-to-text6
csrf6
http-header6
gunicorn6
linux6
python6
subprocess6
django6
django-migrations6
testing6
duplication4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CDyWeb/beer-store-api
Apr 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
inventoryapirestrest-apiweb-service
EmpireLife/python-sumo-handler
Jul 2019 - Nov 2023
Python logging handler for sending logs to Sumo Logic
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 5 pushes in 4 years 4 months
pythonloggerloggingsplunklogging-handler
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