Summary
Lukas De Boer-dirksen is a Staff Platform Engineer with 13 years of experience building global multi-region cloud platforms that boost developer productivity and reliability. He specializes in Kubernetes and AWS architectures, Terraform/Terragrunt IaC, Vault secrets management, GitOps-driven self-service and pragmatic AI-enabled tooling. At Just Eat Takeaway he consolidated large legacy estates into a unified platform, hardened security and compliance posture, and applied both manual and automated cost-optimisation across cloud and Kubernetes. He blends hands-on implementation with platform vision and governance, mentoring teams and aligning cross-pillar practices to reduce toil and MTTR. Lukas’s background in computational visualization and early work in performance tuning give him a practical edge when designing observable, efficient systems. Based in the Netherlands, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with people leadership to deliver scalable, auditable infrastructure at production scale.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computing Science - Computational Science & Visualization, Master’s Degree, Computing Science - Computational Science & Visualization at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
VWO, NT+NG, VWO, NT+NG at dr. Aletta Jacobs College