Haije Ploeg
Kubernetes Container Platform Engineer
Greater Groningen Area Netherlands
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Top SchoolHaije Ploeg is a Kubernetes Container Platform Engineer with 9 years of hands-on SRE/DevOps experience, currently focused on building and operating cloud-native platforms at DICTU. He has led large-scale automation initiatives—managing thousands of Linux servers, 11 OpenShift clusters via GitOps, and migrations from Azure to Exoscale—using tools like Ansible, SaltStack, Terraform, ArgoCD and AWX. Pragmatic and community-minded, he runs workshops and knowledge sessions to spread best practices in CI/CD, security and automation across organizations. His background spans OpenStack hypervisor operations to container registries and LCM tooling, combining deep systems expertise with scripting in Python to deliver reliable, auditable infrastructure. Based in the Greater Groningen area, he’s a cloud-native enthusiast and self-described “Chaos Monkey” who thrives on making complex platforms both scalable and developer-friendly. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of turning proof-of-concept tooling into production-grade automation that reduces operational load.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Propedeuse Technische informatica / Computertechniek / Technische computerkunde, Propedeuse Technische informatica / Computertechniek / Technische computerkunde at HanzeWeb design & english for international students, Web design & english for international students at Karlstad UniversityICT Beheerder ICT-beheer / ICT-beheerder, ICT Beheerder ICT-beheer / ICT-beheerder at ROC Friese PoortVMBO/MAVO VMBO-T, VMBO/MAVO VMBO-T at Bornego College
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (115)
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django8
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self-hosting8
bittorrent8
django-rest-framework8
command-line-utility8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
haijeploeg/arr-helm
Oct 2024 - Jan 2025
Collection of Helm charts of applications like Sonarr, Radarr, etc.
Contributions:60 PRs, 135 pushes, 12 branches in 2 months
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haijeploeg/samba-timemachine
Dec 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:9 releases, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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