Patrick Aalders
Solution Architect at Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Aalders is a Solution Architect with 10+ years of hands-on experience translating complex IT and OT landscapes into pragmatic, scalable architectures. He blends a software development background with technical leadership to guide teams and platforms toward coherent, operationally sound choices—favoring simplicity, ownership, and measurable outcomes over theoretical models. Patrick has led cloud and private PaaS initiatives for mission-critical workloads, designed IT4IT capabilities, and shaped developer experience through automation and GitOps practices. He thrives in messy, high-responsibility environments where technical rigor must meet organizational decision-making. Based in Gelderland, Netherlands, he runs a freelance practice while serving enterprise clients like Nederlandse Spoorwegen and TenneT, pairing strategic vision with the ability to jump into code and infrastructure. An advocate of DDD and edge/cloud convergence, he focuses on architectures that actually work in production rather than living only on paper.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at HAN University of Applied SciencesMBO-4 Informatics, MBO-4 Informatics at Technisch College Ede
Dutch, English
Github Skills (33)
linux-distribution9
musl9
chroot9
grpc8
containerd8
linux8
talos7
kubernetes7
mms7
command-line7
cloud-native7
azure6
go6
voice6
api6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
voortman-steel-machinery/talos-os-config-generator
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Simple API to create Talos OS config files
Contributions:29 commits, 4 PRs, 35 pushes in 14 days
apiconfigsimple-apitalosconfig-files
paalders/cisco-icons
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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