Marcel Koek
RSE DevOps Engineer at SURF
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcel Koek is an RSE and DevOps engineer with 14 years of experience building FAIR medical imaging solutions and leading cross-functional teams from Rotterdam. As former Team Leader and Research Software Engineer at Erasmus MC, he managed a team of Research Software Engineers and Data Managers while delivering containerized, Kubernetes-driven services and XNAT-based repositories for large European projects such as euCanImage and EOSC4Cancer. He combines hands-on DevOps (Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD) with research-grade software design using Flask/RestX and scalable image-processing pipelines. Now at SURF he focuses on delivering data management services to researchers, bridging academic requirements and production-grade operations. Beyond leadership he contributes to open-source localization (Dutch translations for Brewtarget), reflecting attention to user experience across domains. Trained in biomedical image processing (TU Delft) with an applied-physics background, he brings both deep technical breadth and practical lab-to-cloud perspective.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B. Eng, Applied Physics, B. Eng, Applied Physics at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied SciencesTU Delft
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (3)
localization10
translation10
user-interface5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Brewtarget/brewtarget
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Main brewtarget source code repository.
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:7 commits, 1 PR in 5 days
Contributions summary:Marcel primarily contributed to the project by adding and updating Dutch translations for the application's user interface. This involved modifying existing translation files to include new text and correcting typos. These changes enhance the user experience for Dutch-speaking users of the software.
code-repositorycpp
koekie/ha-repository
Jan 2023 - Jun 2024
A list of all the repositories hosted on this GitHub account
Contributions:11 pushes in 1 year 4 months
repositorieshostedaccount
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