Robert Rijkse
Cloud Engineer at Edublok
Houten, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorRobert Rijkse is a Cloud Engineer with over nine years of professional cloud-focused experience and more than 20 years of hands-on coding, currently based in Houten, Netherlands. He blends practical cloud automation expertise with software engineering instincts from his long tenure at Edublok and his current role at PGGM. An active open-source contributor, he has improved OPNsense's Bind plugin by revamping logging, UI for master/secondary zones, and RNDC key support—demonstrating attention to both backend reliability and user-facing configuration workflows. Known for keeping up with the latest technologies, he brings a pragmatic approach to migrating legacy configurations and building maintainable cloud-native tooling.
9 years of coding experience
Dutch, English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
php10
apidoc9
api9
configuration-management9
javascript8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
opnsense/plugins
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
OPNsense plugin collection
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 10 commits, 11 PRs in 23 days
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the OPNsense plugin collection, specifically focusing on the DNS/Bind plugin. Their work involved revamping logging features, cleaning up the master/slave zone UI, adding RNDC key UI support, and migrating existing configurations. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving user interface elements and migrating to a primary/secondary zone structure within the Bind configuration.
opnsense
sestary/infrastructure
Feb 2023 - Feb 2025
ArgoCD based infrastructure deployments
Contributions:25 reviews, 134 PRs, 440 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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