Summary
Joachim Opdenakker is a network engineer with 10 years’ experience designing and operating carrier-grade and datacenter networks, currently building infrastructure at SURF. His background spans hands-on BGP, JUNOS automation and DDoS mitigation at Belnet, to writing Python automation and deployment workflows for mixed-vendor fabrics at AWS. He has practical QA and test-infrastructure experience from Nokia and a history of scripting integrations between network devices and CMDBs, demonstrating a strong operational focus on correctness and reproducibility. Comfortable across automation, change management and on-call operations, he brings a pragmatic blend of engineering rigor and tooling fluency. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of turning routine operational tasks into repeatable, auditable workflows that scale.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Economics - Modern Languages, Economics - Modern Languages at Stedelijke Humaniora Dilsen
Bachelor, Applied Informatics, Bachelor, Applied Informatics at UC Leuven-Limburg
English, Dutch, French, German