Maikel De Boer
Automation Manager
Heerhugowaard, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMaikel De Boer is an Automation Manager and seasoned network engineer with 10 years of experience designing, deploying and automating carrier-grade and enterprise networks across the globe. He combines deep protocol expertise (BGP, MPLS, IS-IS, optical transport) with hands-on automation skills in Python, Linux and Ansible to accelerate staging, deployment and lifecycle management for complex infrastructures. At Tampnet he led development of both customer-facing and internal portals and has overseen private LTE and large MPLS rollouts, blending customer experience work with low-level network engineering. An active back-end contributor to LibreNMS, he has extended device support and monitoring features—showing a practical commitment to open-source tooling for observability. Based in the Netherlands with an MSc in System and Network Engineering, he’s known for turning operational pain points into automated, production-grade solutions.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) System and Network Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) System and Network Engineering at University of AmsterdamBachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Hoge school van Amsterdam
Dutch, English, python
Github Skills (13)
monitoring10
network10
snmp10
php10
snmpd10
network-monitoring10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
rrd9
database-design9
apache3
python3
phpunit3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
librenms/librenms
Dec 2017 - Sep 2022
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 17 commits, 35 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Maikel primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the LibreNMS network monitoring system. Their work involved implementing support for new hardware and devices, such as Aprisa and Ericsson Traffic Node, along with integrating sensor data. The user also focused on enhancing existing features, including the Nokia SAP graph functionality, and addressing bug fixes. These contributions demonstrate expertise in extending the system's capabilities for network device monitoring.
snmpcommunity-basedlicensedgplphp
loopodoopo/librenms
May 2020 - Apr 2025
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Contributions:2 PRs, 144 pushes, 18 branches in 4 years 11 months
community-basedlicensedgplnetwork-monitoringsystem-monitoring
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