Marcel Van Eijk is a seasoned product owner and project manager with 10+ years leading digital transformation, roadmap strategy, and high-traffic website builds across travel and retail industries. He excels at translating complex business needs into MVPs, managing cross-functional agile teams, and driving measurable conversion and revenue improvements. Marcel combines strong stakeholder management and release discipline with hands-on technical familiarity—evidenced by DevOps contributions to Azure templates and automated MySQL failover tooling—bringing reliability-minded engineering context to product decisions. Energetic, results-driven and resilient under pressure, he thrives as the bridge between commerce and tech and often tackles both strategic vision and the nitty-gritty of acceptance testing. He has a pragmatic background in marketing, data analysis and systems integration, which helps him align commercial goals with technical constraints. Based in the Netherlands, Marcel is known for clear communication and a bias for shipping customer-focused innovation.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Mecanical Engineering, 2nd year certificate, Mecanical Engineering, 2nd year certificate at Hendrick de Keyserschool
General Practical Secondary Education, General Practical Secondary Education at Nassau College
Scripts and tools that help customers use Azure and Azure Stack
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:48 commits, 42 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Marcel focused on improving the deployment process and environment configuration within the Azure Stack tools repository. Their contributions include changes related to password handling, time zone settings, and network configuration. They also added a new installer, suggesting an effort to streamline the deployment process. The commits indicate a focus on automating and simplifying the setup of Azure Stack environments.
Contributions:650 commits, 296 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Marcel's commits focus on configuring and integrating various tools within a MySQL-HA-HAProxy setup on Ubuntu, including setting up MHA manager, configuring HAProxy, and creating scripts for master/slave IP failover and health checks. Their work involved building the necessary infrastructure and scripts for automated failover and load balancing, demonstrating a strong focus on system reliability and availability. The contributions also involved modifying system configuration files and managing dependencies.
bicep-templatestemplatesbicepazurearm-templates
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