Gerben Meijer
Owner at Day by Day BV
Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolGerben Meijer is a seasoned systems designer and cloud architect with 15+ years building and operating large-scale, Linux-based web and hosting infrastructures, from single servers to 100+ node clusters. As owner of Day by Day BV and Chief Cloud Architect at Itrica, he combines hands-on system administration, level‑3 support and project leadership to deliver open source-driven enterprise and hosting solutions. He has deep low-level knowledge of Linux and network protocols and a pragmatic, analytical approach to solving complex performance, HA and deployment challenges. His open-source contributions include meaningful backend and DevOps work on widely used projects like vagrant-libvirt and LibreNMS, improving virtualization flexibility and network monitoring reliability. Based in Breda, he’s happiest designing resilient, scalable systems and taking on problems that expand his technical boundaries.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
VWO
English, Dutch, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
monitoring10
libvirt10
ruby10
php10
virtualization10
xml10
network10
vagrant10
configuration-management9
automations8
automation8
cpu-architecture8
vagrant-plugin6
raspbian6
qemu6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
vagrant-libvirt/vagrant-libvirt
Jul 2015 - Feb 2018
Vagrant provider for libvirt.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:93 commits, 64 PRs, 55 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Gerben primarily focused on enhancing the `vagrant-libvirt` provider, implementing boot order configuration, adding support for VMs without boxes, and introducing configurable hypervisor features. They modified domain XML templates, action files, and configuration settings to achieve these improvements. Furthermore, the user addressed code related to kernel and initrd startup, CPU models, and ARM device support, showing a commitment to improving the libvirt provider's versatility.
vagrantprovidervmslibvirtruby
librenms/librenms
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Gerben's contributions primarily focused on modifying the `includes/polling/ports.inc.php` and `includes/definitions.inc.php` files, indicating work on the back-end logic of the network monitoring system. They addressed issues related to the handling of `ifAlias` data, making changes to ensure the correct population and usage of interface aliases, and also corrected a typo. These changes likely aimed to improve the accuracy and reliability of network interface descriptions within the monitoring system.
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