Jorik Jonker
DevOps Product Owner at Equinix
Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJorik Jonker is a DevOps Product Owner and seasoned technology leader with 18 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure and managed services from Enschede, Netherlands. At Equinix he has progressed from network engineer and R&D lead to shaping technical architecture and now consolidating stakeholder priorities to maximize DevOps value delivery. He blends hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, automation and Linux with strategic oversight of IaaS/PaaS, networking and security, coaching teams to turn innovation into reliable services. An active contributor to projects like Talos Linux, he has improved low-level infrastructure robustness and hardware support—showing a comfort with both systems internals and product-focused roadmaps. His academic background in Computer Science (MSc, University of Twente) underpins a pragmatic approach to marrying research, open source and production operations. Colleagues know him for translating complex technical constraints into prioritized backlogs that drive measurable outcomes.
18 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science - Human Media Interaction, Master of Science - MS Computer Science - Human Media Interaction at University of Twente
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
linux10
go10
vmware10
kubernetes-pods10
containerd9
zsh8
devops8
cloud-native8
grpc6
musl5
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
siderolabs/talos
Mar 2021 - May 2022
Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 13 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jorik primarily contributed to the infrastructure and configuration aspects of the Talos Linux project. Their work includes fixing ZSH completion, adding support for reading OVF data on VMWare, and making adjustments related to the Pine64 SBC support. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to OVF environment handling, improving the robustness of the system. They also made changes to accommodate the inclusion of new hardware support and updates to the build and deployment process.
containersmuslcontainerdlinux-distributiongrpc
jonkerj/iioflux
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
Small program to fetch data from industrial I/O daemons (iiod) and submit them into InfluxDB
Contributions:3 PRs, 13 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 4 months
daemonsfetch-dataindustrialsubmitinfluxdb
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