Jeroen Van Bemmel
Lead Architect at Exergy Connect
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeroen Van Bemmel is a Lead Architect with 20 years of experience helping organizations improve decision-making, coordination, and system adaptability as AI and complexity reshape operations. Based in Houston, he blends deep networking and automation expertise—from contributing determinism and scale improvements to the widely used containerlab project to leading SDN and webscale architecture at Nokia—with hands-on change management and stable rollout practices. He’s led cross-functional teams through new product introductions and large-scale trials, while mentoring engineers to balance innovation with rigorous, auditable processes. Jeroen’s approach is informed by an engineering ethos captured in his “kintsukuroi” motto: fix bugs transparently and learn from the repairs, not hide them.
20 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at University of TwenteMaartenscollege
English, Dutch
Github Skills (7)
network-automation10
container10
go10
networking10
docker8
dockers8
yaml7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
srl-labs/containerlab
Apr 2021 - Dec 2021
container-based networking labs
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Network Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Network Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 10 commits, 24 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jeroen contributed to enhancing the `containerlab` project by adding support for HTTP(S) source files for agent YAML files, improving file handling functionality. They focused on network automation by implementing deterministic MAC addresses for SRL nodes, increasing the maximum lab size to 4096 nodes. The user also addressed template rendering issues and corrected an FQDN, demonstrating a focus on the configuration and operational aspects of the networking labs.
networkingsrlinuxcontainersnetwork-automationceos
jbemmel/srl-openrift
Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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