Roald Van Loon
Senior Manager Global Digital Platforms
Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRoald Van Loon is a senior technology leader with 13+ years of experience architecting and scaling large-scale data and platform solutions across hundreds of teams and thousands of systems. As Senior Manager Global Digital Platforms at Wavin and former Data Platform Architect and Senior Data Scientist at bol.com, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic innovation to turn data into actionable insights and product value. His PhD in Human Factors and background in cognitive psychology give him a distinctive edge in designing human-centered, data-driven systems and communicating complex technical topics to diverse audiences. He has deep experience in cloud-native transformation, ML/AI, and solutions architecture, and has repeatedly delivered high-throughput, fault-tolerant systems from embedded devices to global platforms. An enthusiastic, autonomy-minded leader, he values openness and a get-things-done culture while continually testing novel strategies against practical engineering experience. Notably, his career spans both research-driven safety work in mobility and building real-time, massively scalable services at consumer and enterprise scale.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Human Factors Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Human Factors Engineering at University of TwenteMSc, Applied Cognitive Psychology, MSc, Applied Cognitive Psychology at Universiteit Utrecht
English, Dutch, French, German
Github Skills (62)
infiniband10
glusterfs10
kubernetes10
fat10
rdma10
nfs10
fuse10
openebs10
storage10
blob-storage10
hdfs10
smb10
data-exchange10
nvme10
persistent-storage10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
roaldvanloon/installer
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
A modular, a-la-carte installer for Istio components
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
installercarteistiokubernetesmodular
roaldvanloon/test
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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