Rick Stokkingreef
Principal DevOps Engineer at Airalo
Netherlands
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Top SchoolRick Stokkingreef is a Principal DevOps Engineer based in the Netherlands with 11 years of experience building and operating resilient, scalable systems across startups and large platforms. He brings proven SRE and DevOps leadership from roles at Airalo, Hotjar, and Just Eat Takeaway.com, focusing on rapid iteration, platform performance, and continuous improvement. A hands-on engineer, Rick is a top contributor to team-owned repos and has extended user-facing tooling—his Home Assistant UI work demonstrates attention to UX, configurability, and automation of third-party card updates. He proactively monitors and integrates emerging technologies to keep platforms current and efficient, often turning research into production-ready features. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic problem-solving that balances reliability with delivery velocity. Trained in ICT management, he combines formal engineering grounding with a practical, full-stack mindset.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MBO - Niveau 4 ICT-Beheerder, MBO - Niveau 4 ICT-Beheerder at ROC van TwenteEngineer's Degree ICT-Beheer, Engineer's Degree ICT-Beheer at Saxion University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (5)
configuration-management10
ui-customization10
home-assistant10
front-end-development10
javascript9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
UI-Lovelace-Minimalist/UI
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
UI-Lovelace-Minimalist is a "theme" for HomeAssistant
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 109 commits, 53 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Rick's commits primarily involve modifications to the configuration flow and core components of the Lovelace Minimalist UI, a Home Assistant theme. They added initial configuration options, including language and other UI customizations. Subsequent commits refined the configuration flow and incorporated the ability to include other cards, demonstrating a focus on improving user experience and extensibility. These changes also incorporated card resources and included scripts for automating updates to these cards.
home-assistanthacsintegrationthemes
Airalo/safe-settings
Feb 2025 - Dec 2025
Pull Requests for GitHub repository settings
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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