Gert van Dijk
Senior DevOps Engineer at StartMail
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolGert van Dijk is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Zoetermeer with 12 years of experience blending software development, system administration and security. He has a strong open source orientation—contributing front-end improvements to voxpupuli/puppetboard, back-end fixes to Gerrit, and documentation to PowerDNS—while running and hardening production infrastructure such as Kubernetes, Envoy (built with Bazel) and DNSSEC. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he focuses on resource-efficient, secure platforms that leverage gRPC, Kafka and Google-origin tooling like Gerrit and CopyBara. A hands-on tinkerer off-hours as well (custom Android ROMs, OpenWRT APs and BIOS mods), he brings both curiosity and a proven track record of troubleshooting and practical engineering in high-assurance environments.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Pre-university secondary school, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Pre-university secondary school, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Ichthus CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Haagse Hogeschool/TH Rijswijk(no degree), Applied Physics, (no degree), Applied Physics at Delft University of Technology
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (38)
git10
javascript10
jquery10
sphinx10
css10
powerdns10
git-branch10
gerrit10
java10
code-review10
javas10
momentjs10
semantic-ui10
html10
documentation10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
PowerDNS/pdns
Jun 2017 - Apr 2019
PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:42 commits, 7 PRs, 21 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Gert primarily contributed to the documentation of the PowerDNS project. The commits focused on correcting formatting errors, fixing typos, improving clarity, and adding missing information to various documentation pages. The user updated the documentation for different aspects of the project, including settings, the BIND backend, and the HTTP API, demonstrating a focus on improving the user experience and accuracy of the documentation.
dnsdistpowerdns-recursordnssystems-programmingrecursor
voxpupuli/puppetboard
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
Web frontend for PuppetDB
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Gert focused on updating the project's front-end dependencies and adapting it for offline usage. They incorporated the Semantic UI framework, including the required CSS and fonts, and updated jQuery, and moment.js to newer versions. Furthermore, they integrated TableSorter, updating its files and CSS. Finally, the user added an `OFFLINE_MODE` configuration, which involved modifications to the HTML layout to switch between online and offline resources.
puppetdbreportingpuppetfrontenddashboard
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