Jop Zitman
DevOps Engineer at Polars
Hoofddorp, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJop Zitman is a DevOps Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and hardening cloud-native platforms, currently driving infrastructure at Polars after roles in security-focused and product engineering teams. Trained in Computer Science (VU Amsterdam) and advancing his studies at Tsinghua, he blends academic depth with practical delivery across platform, DevOps and web development. He contributes to notable open-source projects—improving frontend UX in Vue Storefront and enhancing cascading scan and operator behavior in secureCodeBox—demonstrating fluency across front-end, backend and operator tooling. Comfortable translating security requirements into reliable tooling, he has a track record of pragmatic refactors, templating and inheritance fixes that reduce operational friction. Based in Hoofddorp, he pairs a developer mindset with security-aware platform engineering to help teams ship faster and safer.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Technology, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua UniversityVWO, NT, VWO, NT at Haarlemmermeer Lyceum
French, English, Dutch, Chinese
Github Skills (19)
kubernetes10
devsecops10
mustache10
typescript10
template-engine10
front-end-development10
vue10
typescript-types10
kubernetes-pods10
typescripts10
templating10
vue-jsx10
ecommerce9
javascript9
security9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
secureCodeBox/secureCodeBox
May 2021 - Oct 2021
secureCodeBox (SCB) - continuous secure delivery out of the box
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 81 commits, 22 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jop primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of cascading scan features within the secureCodeBox project. Their work focused on improving the logic and functionality of declarative subsequent scans, specifically around the merging of configurations and proper inheritance of properties. They also enhanced the project's tooling by introducing templating for labels and annotations, alongside code refactoring and bug fixes. These changes were integrated with operator functionality, along with the integration of volume and environment variable inheritances.
secureowasp-zapsecurity-automationsecurity-toolsbox
vuestorefront/vue-storefront
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Alokai is a Frontend as a Service solution that simplifies composable commerce. It connects all the technologies needed to build and deploy fast & scalable ecommerce frontends. It guides merchants to deliver exceptional customer experiences quickly and easily.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Jop primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the Vue Storefront project, specializing in price formatting and user interface improvements. Their contributions include modifying price display logic, introducing fraction digits, and adjusting the currency format. They also updated the setup and type definitions and fixed issues related to UI elements. These changes reflect a commitment to enhancing the user experience and ensuring accurate information presentation.
cmsstripeecommerceshopwarenuxt
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