Jan Van Veldhuizen
Pensionado at Opa Jan's Homelab
Loosdrecht, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Van Veldhuizen is a veteran software engineer turned pensionado whose career spans from punch cards and COBOL in the 1970s to modern AI, continuous deployment, and infrastructure-as-code. He progressed from hands-on programming roles at banks and consultancies to leadership and architecture positions at Visma | Onguard, culminating in senior development and R&D management before retiring in 2025. Jan keeps a homelab where he experiments with Ansible, automated testing, new languages and cutting-edge AI tooling, treating retirement as a return to a lifelong hobby. With formal studies in mathematics and French from Leiden University, he brings both analytical rigor and a lifelong curiosity to systems design and operational automation.
10 years of coding experience
41 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Leiden UniversityAtheneum, Atheneum at Scholengemeenschap Guido de Brès
Dutch, English, French, German, Esperanto
Github Skills (200)
python10
automation10
ansible-role10
virtualization10
ansible10
vagrant10
mfe10
filtering9
outlook9
starter-kit9
ruby9
ssh9
mkdocs9
protractor9
webpack9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
janvanveldhuizen/janban
Mar 2019 - Dec 2019
Outlook Kanban board
Contributions:139 commits, 188 pushes, 38 branches in 9 months
kanbanoutlookboardkanban-board
janvanveldhuizen/perplex
May 2024 - May 2024
A Hugo theme to publish technical content (docs, news, blog, articles)
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 24 days
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