Kai Storbeck
DevOps Meneer at Z-CERT
Zaandam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Storbeck is a pragmatic DevOps engineer with 20+ years in ISP-grade infrastructure and 14 years of formal experience building and operating resilient networks and services from DNS and IPAM to monitoring and virtualization. Based in the Netherlands, he’s driven large migrations, DNS re-architectures, and IPAM iterations at XS4ALL and now applies that expertise to consulting and incident-free decommissions at Z-CERT. A hands-on backend contributor to well-known open-source projects like Prometheus node_exporter and the NIPAP IPAM, he focuses on accurate metric collection, IP tooling, and reliable collectors—often improving edge-case handling and adding unit tests. He combines low-level system work (FreeBSD tuning, BGP, load balancers) with modern tooling (Docker, Proxmox, Rust ports, Puppet/Ansible), making him equally comfortable moving teams to cloud or back to bare metal. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, auditable solutions to messy operational problems such as DNS growth, capacity planning and lawful decommissioning.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
European School Bergen NLKinderweijdtWillem Bleau
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (26)
json10
monitoring10
data-collection10
python10
back-end-development10
alertdialog10
alertifyjs10
command-line-interface10
alertview10
alerts10
go10
prometheus10
command-line10
ceph10
influxdb10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
prometheus/node_exporter
Apr 2016 - Apr 2017
Exporter for machine metrics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 12 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Kai primarily contributed to the `node_exporter` project by fixing bugs and implementing improvements in the FreeBSD collectors. They addressed issues related to data type conversions, specifically focusing on handling unsigned integers. They also added unit tests to validate these conversions and made changes to handle non-existent files related to bonding configurations. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the accuracy and reliability of the system metrics collection.
exporterprometheus-exportersystem-metricshost-metricssystem-information
SpriteLink/NIPAP
Jun 2013 - Oct 2016
Neat IP Address Planner - NIPAP is the best open source IPAM in the known universe, challenging classical IP address management (IPAM) systems in many areas.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kai primarily contributed to the `nipap` project by implementing and refining the command-line interface (CLI) functionality. They added features for managing IP address pools, including growing and shrinking pool sizes through the `resize` command. The user also integrated code from a gist, added missing features in `nipap-cli`, and corrected the manpage. They also refactored and cleaned up the codebase.
universeaddresschallengingip-address-managementplanner
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