Michiel Brinkman
Practice Lead Infrastructure Modernization BeNeLux
North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMichiel Brinkman is a seasoned infrastructure and cloud leader with 11 years of experience helping organizations in the Benelux modernize platforms and operating models. As Practice Lead Infrastructure Modernization at Google he blends hands-on engineering with advisory skills to guide cloud adoption, automation, and DevOps transformation across enterprise customers. His background spans mission-critical engineering and technical leadership roles at Accenture, Rackspace, Schuberg Philis and Intertrust, where he founded continuous improvement teams and shaped enterprise architecture and workspace modernization. Michiel pairs a pragmatic systems mindset with a humanities-rooted curiosity (studied philosophy), which shows up in his focus on people-first change and the cultural side of technical transformation. He’s comfortable switching between deep technical design and strategic stakeholder engagement, and is known for turning complex operational problems into repeatable, scalable practices. Based in North Holland, he brings both large-vendor experience and boots-on-the-ground engineering credibility to modernization programs.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
VWO, VWO at O.S.G. NieuwediepNone, Philosophy, None, Philosophy at Universiteit van Amsterdam
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (23)
chef-dk8
vagrant7
workbench7
virtualization5
automation5
ruby5
google-cloud-platform5
pipeline4
chef-infra3
vertex3
splunk3
machine-learning2
inference2
notebook2
genai2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jmbrinkman/kubertetris
Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
Enhanced version of blockrain.js
Contributions:2 PRs, 200 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
jmbrinkman/docs-developer-blog
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
The developer.rackspace.com blog.
Contributions:11 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
rackspace
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