Summary
Peter Ruissen is a pragmatic technical lead with 16+ years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, secure, and automated platforms—currently leading Observability at Alliander where he centralizes monitoring, topology insight and AI-driven root cause analysis. He excels at translating business needs into scalable AWS container and serverless architectures, CI/CD/GitOps pipelines, and integrated SaaS observability stacks (Dynatrace, Grafana, Elastic), while keeping security and identity (OIDC, Kerberos, LDAP) front and center. His background ranges from large-scale Ansible-driven IT/OT deployments and Zabbix automation to designing Kubernetes/Openshift/EKS platforms with Argo, Tekton and Terraform. Fast-moving and curious, he combines systems-level depth (Linux, networking, infra-as-code) with a product-minded “get things done” approach, and has applied that blend to simulate future smart grids and scale thousands of smart agents in research projects.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science / Electronics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science / Electronics at Inholland University of Applied Sciences
Master of Science - MS System and Network Engineering, Master of Science - MS System and Network Engineering at University of Amsterdam
English, Dutch