Mitch Hulscher
Founder at Evil8
North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMitch Hulscher is a founder and seasoned platform engineer with 10+ years building multi-tenant, self-service Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms for organizations ranging from startups to enterprises supporting 1,500+ engineers. He combines hands-on implementation (Terraform, FluxCD, EKS) with pragmatic platform strategy—driving rapid adoption by designing as-a-service APIs, standardized onboarding, and observable stacks (Loki/Grafana/Tempo/Mimir). His work has delivered dramatic cost and velocity wins (up to 70% infra savings in one program) and he repeatedly bootsrapped MVPs and teams that became self-sustaining. Based in North Holland, he now advises and leads container and observability efforts across companies like KPN, Rituals and Albert Heijn, bringing a blend of engineering leadership, coaching, and an emphasis on DORA and Team Topologies-informed delivery. Less obvious: he pairs platform automation with developer ergonomics, prioritizing low cognitive load so product teams can ship without platform friction.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Atheneum -, Atheneum - at Oostvaarders College Almere
English, Dutch, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
missioncriticalkubernetes/kops-etcd-backups
Nov 2017 - Sep 2018
Create and expire EBS-snapshots of kops created etcd-volumes
Contributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 10 months
etcdvolumesexpireebs-snapshotssnapshots
mhulscher/zsh-includes
May 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:21 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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