Summary
Jop Zinkweg is a pragmatic DevOps engineer with over fourteen years of combined software development and IT operations experience, currently enabling self-service deployments and platform reliability at Air France-KLM from Rotterdam. He has steered operational and development teams as COO at Initworks, managing hosted Linux/Windows environments, public cloud platforms, and CI/CD pipelines while coordinating software delivery for internal and external clients. Jop’s hands-on background spans Java EE application stacks, Kubernetes and PKS, WebSphere/JBoss/Tomcat, Docker Swarm, and deployment automation using XL Deploy, Bamboo, Helm and kubectl. He’s known for turning recurring operational work into one-click deployments, training 50+ agile teams across multiple countries, and moving the majority of deployment ownership into product teams. Comfortable across datacenter hardware lifecycles through public cloud, he brings a blend of deep systems knowledge and developer empathy that surfaces in improved processes and measurable risk reduction. An educator at heart, Jop also taught databases and security, which informs his focus on practical, auditable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, Bilingual High School, VWO, Bilingual High School at Wolfert van Borselen SG
Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology - Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology - Software Engineering at Hogeschool Rotterdam
Training, Websphere Application Server V7 Administration on AIX, Training, Websphere Application Server V7 Administration on AIX at IBM
English, Dutch