Jeroen Van Erp
Technical Advocate
Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJeroen Van Erp is a seasoned technical advocate and engineer with 15 years of experience building cloud-native, SaaS and infrastructure solutions across startups and enterprise teams. He has hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, AWS/Azure, SaaS architecture and developer-focused tooling—having co-founded a SaaS enablement platform and led StackState’s SaaS and product efforts. His open-source contributions include stabilizing Kryo’s complex generic serialization logic and enhancing kOps CoreDNS and security integrations, showing a knack for solving subtle, protocol- and type-system-level problems. Based in Gelderland, Netherlands, he blends deep backend protocol work (SMB2/3, serialization) with practical cloud ops features like PrefixLists and IAM authenticator support. Colleagues know him for converting tricky technical edge cases into robust, production-ready solutions and for bridging product, developer experience and infrastructure concerns.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ir Technische Informatica, Ir Technische Informatica at Eindhoven University of TechnologyVWO, VWO at Lorentz Lyceum
English, Dutch, German
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Github Skills (40)
git10
kubernetes10
testing10
data-serialization10
cloud-infrastructure10
network-programming10
java10
serialization10
security10
javas10
aws-security-group10
go10
aws10
kryo10
network-protocol10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
hierynomus/smbj
Jan 2016 - Sep 2022
Server Message Block (SMB2, SMB3) implementation in Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 447 commits, 261 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jeroen contributed significantly to the implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB2, SMB3) protocol in Java. Their contributions involved the addition of core network protocol classes, including foundational infrastructure such as base64 encoding and decoding, and the implementation of critical features like the sequence window for managing message sequence numbers. Furthermore, the user added new test cases for the implementation.
javamessagesmb2smb3
kubernetes/kops
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 9 commits, 5 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jeroen contributed to the kops project by implementing features related to Kubernetes configuration and deployment. Their work focused on enhancing CoreDNS by adding custom tolerations and affinity configurations. Additionally, they added support for YAML/JSON output in the `kops get instances` command and integrated AWS IAM authenticator configurations defined in the cluster YAML file. They also introduced the ability to use PrefixLists in security group rules for SSH access and Kubernetes API access.
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