Luuk Van Den Broek
CTO Identity at GBG Plc
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuuk Van Den Broek is a seasoned engineering leader and current CTO Identity with 12 years of experience building and scaling secure, high-volume identity platforms. He has led global teams at GlobalSign to design WebTrust-certified, cross-data-center certificate issuance services and modernized monolithic systems into distributed, hybrid-cloud architectures. Equally comfortable in hands-on engineering and strategic roles, Luuk has driven adoption of DevOps practices, open source contributions (including FreeBSD support for redisio and Go/MongoDB initiatives), and performance-driven engineering cultures. Based in the UK, he blends deep technical expertise in PKI, Golang, distributed systems and deployment automation with a background in political science and climate studies, bringing an uncommon mix of technical rigor and broader systems thinking to identity security.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Area-based Global Studies, Master's Degree, Area-based Global Studies at Sophia UniversityClimate Change, Climate Change at United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and PeaceLanguage and Politics, Language and Politics at Rikkyo UniversityBsc, Political Science, Bsc, Political Science at Radboud University NijmegenHigh School, High School at Maasland College
English, Japanese, Dutch, German
Github Skills (11)
chef-client10
cookbook10
chef-solo10
automation10
automations10
automation-testing10
freebsd10
system-administration9
testing8
terraform7
terraformer7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/redisio
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Development repository for the redisio cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Luuk's contributions primarily involve enhancing the `redisio` cookbook to support the FreeBSD operating system. This includes modifying provider code and configuration templates to ensure compatibility with FreeBSD's package management and system initialization methods. Additionally, the user addressed integration test failures and corrected file paths within the testing suite, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the cookbook's functionality across different platforms. These changes streamline the deployment and management of Redis instances on FreeBSD systems.
cookbookredisredisioredisearchchef-resource
globalsign/publicsuffix
Jan 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 10 months
publicsuffix
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