Mart Van Santen
Managing Director at Greenhost
New Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolMart Van Santen is a seasoned IT solution designer and managing director with 11+ years of professional experience and two decades of hands-on work in Linux and open source infrastructure. As founder and long-time CTO of Greenhost, he built sustainable, privacy-respecting hosting and multi-server architectures, specializing in cost-efficient redesigns using technologies like Ceph, Xen, Ansible and LAMP stacks. He combines deep systems expertise—MySQL tuning, rsync workflows, CI/CD with GitLab—and a pragmatic focus on pricing and operational sustainability. Based in New Taipei but with roots in Amsterdam development projects, he blends infrastructure engineering with organizational leadership, including chairing a collaborative housing development. Notably, his career began long before formal degrees, evolving from helpdesk Linux adoption to directing an ethical hosting company that emphasizes digital human rights.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Artificial Intelligence at Universiteit van Amsterdam
Dutch
Github Skills (75)
encrypt10
certbot10
act10
thunderbird10
letsencrypt10
acme10
aes-encryption10
webmail10
certificate10
libsodium10
smtp10
roundcube10
ssl-certificate10
mod-manager9
acme-protocol9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
frozen-sky/roundcubemail
Jul 2023 - Sep 2023
The Roundcube Webmail suite
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
greenhost/certbot-haproxy
Aug 2016 - Jun 2020
HAProxy plugin for Let's Encrypt's Certbot
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes, 3 comments in 3 years 9 months
letsencryptcertbotsecurityhaproxylet
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