Richard Pijnenburg
Founder at Eclectic Events LTD
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Pijnenburg is a founder and seasoned DevOps leader with 13 years of hands-on experience building resilient cloud and infrastructure platforms and now applying that technical rigor to the music and events industry. He has led distributed engineering teams to deliver Kubernetes- and Rancher-based platforms, guided security and certification efforts (ISO27001), and contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Elastic Logstash and Puppet modules. As founder of Eclectic Events and Eclectic DJ Collective, he blends systems thinking with creativity to provide audio/video/lighting solutions and a fair, sustainable booking model for DJs and venues. His background in low-level deployment, multi-OS test automation, and proxy/networking enhancements reveals a pragmatic engineer who still codes and architects reliable systems. Based in London, he prioritizes inclusivity, professionalism, and environmental impact in every venture. That mix of enterprise-grade DevOps pedigree and hands-on event curation gives him a rare ability to translate technical constraints into memorable live experiences.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MBO IT, MBO IT at Barony College
Dutch, English
Github Skills (33)
puppeteer10
docker10
puppet10
amazon-elasticsearch10
configuration-management10
dockers10
ruby10
elasticsearchquery10
automation10
aws-elasticsearch10
system-administration10
elasticsearch10
automations10
jruby10
devops10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/puppet-logstash
Dec 2012 - Jan 2016
Puppet module to manage Logstash
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:255 commits, 15 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on updating the Logstash module, including fixing issues, and adding the ability to manage the installation via a custom method. They refactored the custom provider installation and modified the init scripts for multi-instance support. The user also made a number of changes related to the deployment and file structure of the Logstash installation, ensuring proper directory creation and file permissions, and the ability to manage the installation of contrib packages.
linux-puppet-modulepuppet-modulelogstashpuppetcentos-puppet-module
voxpupuli/puppet-elasticsearch
Dec 2012 - Feb 2016
Elasticsearch Puppet module
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:677 commits, 329 PRs, 165 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Richard contributed significantly to the `voxpupuli/puppet-elasticsearch` module, focused on enhancing its functionality and maintainability. Their work included implementing a hash validation for a configuration variable and adding new features, such as supporting external packages (RPM/DEB) and installing Java. The user also refactored code by renaming variables and fixed issues related to the package installation. They also added spec tests, and worked to improve the module's compatibility and setup by adding in features to support multiple OS types.
puppetelasticpuppet-modulerubylinux-puppet-module
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