Jeffrey Van Pelt
Senior Linux Automation Engineer
Zoetermeer, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Van Pelt is a Senior Linux Automation Engineer with 10+ years of hands-on experience designing and automating Red Hat and Debian-based infrastructures for enterprise clients across finance, defense, and public sectors. He is RHCE-certified and a Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible, with deep practical knowledge of Satellite, Foreman/Katello integrations, Proxmox virtualization, Ceph/OpenStack migrations, and large-scale IaC deployments. Jeffrey contributes to prominent open-source Ansible projects—most notably adding Proxmox inventory and snapshot features to the community.general collection and enhancing Foreman Ansible modules—demonstrating a knack for solving API and orchestration gaps. He blends systems administration, network appliance experience (Cisco, Ubiquiti), and scripting in Bash/Python to automate repeatable operations and improve onboarding workflows. Based in the Netherlands, he pairs consultancy and team leadership with a pragmatic focus on reproducible, documented automation and ongoing skill development. An avid tinkerer, he also explores Unity and Arduino projects, which informs his practical approach to tools and integration.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied SciencesVWO, VWO at Erasmus College Zoetermeer
English, Dutch
Github Skills (10)
ansible-galaxy10
api10
ansible-module10
python10
kats10
ansible10
http-request9
foreman9
yaml8
community-management4
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
Ansible modules for interacting with the Foreman API and various plugin APIs such as Katello
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey primarily contributed to Ansible modules for the Foreman API and Katello. Their work involved adding and modifying functionality within the `smart_proxy.py` and `repository.py` modules to support features like lifecycle environments, download concurrency, and discovery rules. They also addressed grammar and documentation issues. Their contributions focused on enhancing the interaction between Ansible and the Foreman/Katello APIs.
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ansible-collections/community.general
Aug 2020 - Jun 2022
Ansible Community General Collection
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 8 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey primarily contributed to the `community.general.proxmox` inventory plugin, adding new features and addressing bugs. Their work included developing a Proxmox inventory module and a snapshot management module, enhancing functionality for users of Ansible within a Proxmox environment. The user implemented the core logic for retrieving data, setting up authentication, and interacting with the Proxmox API, while also addressing documentation and configuration-related issues. They also made changes to the `proxmox_kvm` module.
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