Rik Ribbers
Product Owner Cloud Platform
Huissen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRik Ribbers is a product-focused cloud platform leader with 10+ years of experience building secure, scalable Azure foundations and enabling self-service platforms for enterprise digital transformation. Currently Product Owner Cloud Platform at Kramp, he combines platform engineering depth—Terraform, Azure networking, GitOps and CI/CD—with pragmatic product leadership to drive teams toward measurable business value. Previously he led Bunzl’s cloud platform transformation and contributed to the popular Terraform AzureRM provider, adding WAF and identity features used by many Azure operators. His background spans systems-level engineering (embedded C/Java) to internet standards work—he authored an RFC for secure DNSSEC key transfer—bringing rare protocol-level insight to cloud platform design. Colleagues describe him as open, energetic and focused on optimizing team performance within organizational constraints.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Technical computer science, Bachelor’s Degree Technical computer science at Fontys University of Applied Sciencesmodule Object oriented programming in JAVA, module Object oriented programming in JAVA at Open UniversiteitBachelor's degree Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Chemical Engineering at Saxion University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (19)
back-end-development10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
infrastructure-management10
azure-resource-manager10
terraformer10
infrastructure10
go10
resource-manager10
arm10
backend10
apidoc8
api8
web-application-firewall8
waf8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Terraform provider for Azure Resource Manager
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Cloud Engineer
Backend Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 28 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rik contributed to the `azurerm_application_gateway` resource by adding functionality to associate Web Application Firewall (WAF) policies with Application Gateway listeners, including associated testing and configuration within the Terraform provider. They also added support for a new data source related to WAF policies, enhancing the provider's capabilities. Furthermore, they addressed issues related to the CosmosDB account and API Management Identity Provider.
providerresource-managerazure-resource-managerterraformterraform-provider
peppolautoriteit-nl/testset
Dec 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 months
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