Michiel Appelman
Principal Solutions Engineer at Cloudflare
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMichiel Appelman is a Principal Solutions Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience helping enterprises and service providers modernize connectivity and reclaim control across distributed networks, clouds, and applications. Based in Amsterdam, he has progressed through technical roles at AMS-IX and VodafoneZiggo into strategic engineering and architecture positions at Cisco and Cloudflare, specializing in edge networks, xHaul, and cloud-native connectivity. He blends deep systems and network engineering expertise (MSc, University of Amsterdam) with a practical knack for translating complex security and visibility challenges into deployable connectivity-cloud solutions. Colleagues rely on him to bridge product, sales, and technical teams—turning vendor capabilities into operational value for cybersecurity leaders. Not obvious from titles alone, he has built his career at the intersection of service-provider scale networking and cloud security, making him adept at solving problems that span physical infrastructure to SaaS.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Systems and Network Engineering, Masters Systems and Network Engineering at University of AmsterdamB Sc Network Infrastructure Design, B Sc Network Infrastructure Design at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences
English, Dutch
Github Skills (71)
hugo-theme10
firefox-webextension10
markdown10
mdx10
cloudflare10
golang9
hugo9
vimium9
home-assistant9
webextension9
esp82669
chrome-extension9
responsive9
platformio9
yaml8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
michielappelman/dotfiles
Nov 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:103 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
michielappelman/michielappelman.github.io
Mar 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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