Richard Van Den Brand
DevOps Engineer at REALTEQ
Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Van Den Brand is a DevOps engineer and certified Symfony developer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native web systems and leading engineering teams from Breda, Netherlands. He combines hands-on infrastructure work—CI/CD, Ansible, Kubernetes and Docker—with pragmatic backend expertise in PHP/Symfony to deliver reliable, scalable products. As founder of Keep Getting Better and co-founder of REALTEQ, he balances rapid value-driven delivery with long-term architectural quality and has repeatedly helped teams scale, including growing AutoManager from 4 to 8 engineers and setting up a Polish nearshore. Richard is an active open-source contributor and technical writer who preferences clean, well-architected code and often shares tooling and deployment insights on his blog. He brings an operator-developer mindset honed across startups and scale-ups, capable of moving projects from prototype to acquisition-ready stability. An understated strength is his knack for embedding developer experience improvements (testing, CI, automated deployments) that sustainably raise team velocity and product quality.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Informatica, Bachelor’s Degree, Informatica at Avans Hogeschool Breda
English, Dutch
Github Skills (173)
diffie-hellman10
rsa10
php-library10
ecdsa10
rabbitmq10
aes-gcm10
api10
discogs-api10
logentries10
des10
asn110
aes10
basecamp10
webhooks10
toggle10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ricbra/RicbraDiscogsBundle
Apr 2012 - Dec 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 8 months
apibundlephpsymfony-bundlediscogs-api
netvlies/basecamp-php
May 2013 - Oct 2016
PHP Implementation of the all new Basecamp API
Contributions:19 commits, 10 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 5 months
api-clientapibasecampphpphp-library
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