Kristian Vlaardingerbroek
Mission Critical Engineer at Schuberg Philis
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
👤
SeniorKristian Vlaardingerbroek is a Mission Critical Engineer from the Randstad with 13 years of experience securing and operating high-availability UNIX infrastructure, networks, and databases. He combines deep UNIX system programming and security auditing skills with hands-on administration and automation expertise, contributing to projects like Habitat core-plans and Chef Infra to improve packaging, dependency management and mount handling. At Schuberg Philis he focuses on resilient, auditable systems for critical workloads while also leading community efforts as chairman of Stichting Awesome Retro. His background spans roles from security officer and R&D lead to technical manager, reflecting a pragmatic ability to move between low-level system detail and operational processes. Known for translating security research into reliable automation, he brings a rare mix of forensic security insight and production-grade engineering.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (19)
dependency-management10
package-management10
rspec10
bash10
ruby10
regular-expression10
package-manager-tool10
chef-client10
automation10
packager10
package10
chef-solo10
automations10
package-manager10
build-system9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
habitat-sh/core-plans
Jul 2016 - Jun 2019
Core Habitat Plan definitions
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 6 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kristian primarily contributes to the project by creating and updating Habitat plans, focusing on packaging and dependency management. Their work involves defining plans for various software packages like RPM, NSS, NSPR, OpenLDAP, and Cyrus SASL, ensuring they integrate correctly within the Habitat environment. They also make adjustments to the scaffolding-chef configurations and update the versioning of existing packages, indicating a focus on automation and build processes.
planhabitatpackage-managerdefinitionspackages
chef/chef
Jan 2013 - Feb 2013
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:Automation Engineer
Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 issue in 13 days
Contributions summary:Kristian primarily contributed to the automation aspects of the Chef Infra project, focusing on the `mount` provider. Their work involved fixing regular expressions, adding unit tests, and modifying code to improve the handling of mount options and symlinks within the configuration. This helped ensure that the automation platform accurately reflects and manages storage devices in the infrastructure.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.