Roeland Kuipers
CTO at VOLT | (fromvolt.com)
Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRoeland Kuipers is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Utrecht with 13 years of experience scaling mission-critical systems and leading cloud-native transformations. He progressed from hands-on hosting and systems engineering to a long tenure as CTO at Schuberg Philis, and now combines executive leadership at VOLT with entrepreneurial ventures like BouL. Technically grounded, he contributes to open-source cloud infrastructure—enhancing Apache Libcloud’s CloudStack driver with network, NIC and IP management and accompanying unit tests—showing a preference for pragmatic, production-ready platform work. He also advises organizations on digital operations and cloud strategy in fractional roles, blending technical depth with communication and leadership training. Colleagues know him for thriving in fast-paced change and turning complex infrastructure challenges into measurable business impact.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Christelijk Gymnasium Utrecht3 jarige Professionele Communicatie, 3 jarige Professionele Communicatie at Phoenix OpleidingenStep 2, Step 2 at Tuff Leadership Trainingst. Bonifatius College
French, Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (11)
libcloud10
apache-cloudstack10
networking10
python10
cloud-computing10
unit-testing9
rest-api8
api-rest8
infrastructure-management8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/libcloud
Jun 2014 - Nov 2014
Apache Libcloud is a Python library which hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy to use API.
Role in this project:
Backend & Cloud Engineer
Backend & Cloud EngineerContributions:7 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Roeland primarily contributed to the Cloudstack compute driver, adding features related to network management, including network creation, NIC management (attaching/detaching), and IP address assignment. They implemented functionalities for specifying IP addresses and starting/stopping virtual machines. The contributions involved modifying existing code and adding unit tests for the new features within the libcloud library, demonstrating a focus on cloud infrastructure and platform integration.
python-libraryapilibcloudpythonhides
cloudify-cosmo/cloudify-cloudstack-provider
Jun 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:18 commits in 3 months
apache-cloudstackcloudifyproviderapachecloud
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