Karst Hammer
Principal Engineer at YoungCapital
Hoofddorp, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolKarst Hammer is a Principal Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and operating web and platform infrastructure for HR tech at YoungCapital. He blends full-stack Ruby on Rails development with deep infrastructure expertise—designing AWS and Kubernetes deployment pipelines, managing Elasticsearch/ELK, MySQL, and configuration tooling like Chef. As a longtime developer-operator he moves between architecting scalable hosting platforms and implementing the tooling that automates them, often creating custom integrations with cloud APIs and CI systems. Based in Hoofddorp, he pairs practical systems administration roots with formal computer science training from Utrecht University, enabling a pragmatic approach to reliability and deployment. Notably, his background spans the full lifecycle from legacy server migrations to modern container orchestration, making him effective at evolving platforms without disrupting service.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Utrecht UniversityGymnasium (VWO), Gymnasium (VWO) at Oostvaarders College
Dutch, English, German, French
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Github Skills (42)
ssl-certificate9
act9
python8
certbot8
rails8
ruby8
acme8
encrypt8
letsencrypt8
ssl7
yubico7
mvc7
ruby-on-rails7
html7
activerecord6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
karsthammer/dotfiles
Oct 2013 - Jul 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 12 pushes in 4 years 9 months
thisisdash/go-prtg
Nov 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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