Ger Apeldoorn
Founder at MijnEigenPlan
Emmeloord, Flevoland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolGer Apeldoorn is a founder and seasoned IT engineer with 18+ years of hands-on experience building and automating infrastructure and web applications. He created RoutineFactory / MijnEigenPlan to support children with ASD and scaled it into a product used by major Dutch care organizations, combining user-driven incremental development with on-site training and health-innovation partnerships. Previously he ran a successful Puppet consultancy and served as the official Puppet trainer in the Netherlands, helping organizations like ASML, Bayer and SIDN get reliable, testable deployments. Ger’s background ranges from Linux and AIX system engineering to full-stack automation, with practical expertise in Puppet, Git-based workflows, and production-ready configuration pipelines. He’s also the author of a Dutch guide for freelance IT professionals and runs continuous improvement through direct customer feedback—a practice that informs both his product and consultancy work. Based in Emmeloord, he blends pragmatic operations skills with a personal mission-driven approach to software for care.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), IT, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), IT at Christelijke Hogeschool Windesheim
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (68)
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obs9
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screen-capture8
markdown8
video-recording8
streaming8
slideshow8
live-streaming8
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gerapeldoorn/MPI-course
May 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:60 commits, 1 PR, 58 pushes in 8 months
infrastructuresupportingpuppet
gerapeldoorn/puppet-nagiosxi
Aug 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 3 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 2 months
nagioskubernetes
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