Ronald Van Zantvoort
IT Infrastructure Architect at Profects
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRonald Van Zantvoort is an IT Infrastructure Architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and automating secure, resilient infrastructure for large organizations such as ASML and cloud providers. He specializes in infrastructure-as-code, containers, virtualization and configuration management, and is an active contributor to the widely used SaltStack projects where his patches improved bootstrapping, compatibility and stability across platforms. Comfortable with both high-level architecture and low-level system fixes, he translates abstract technical concepts into pragmatic solutions and clear guidance for management and operators. Known for a strong ethical compass and a pragmatic mindset, he balances deep technical curiosity with a collaborative approach to help teams adopt reliable, maintainable automation.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Dutch, English, Mathematics, Macro economics, Business economics, Physics, Chemistry, VWO, High School, Dutch, English, Mathematics, Macro economics, Business economics, Physics, Chemistry, VWO at Het Goese LyceumCBS Het Kompas
Dutch, English
Github Skills (19)
python10
scripting10
freebsd10
configuration-management10
bash10
automation10
script10
saltstack10
sh10
automations10
shell10
ubuntu9
centos9
fedora9
yaml9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Mar 2015 - Aug 2018
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:184 commits, 110 PRs, 340 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ronald's contributions primarily revolve around infrastructure and configuration management, focusing on the `saltstack/salt` repository. They modified files related to mounting filesystems, updating Jinja2 templates, managing pillar data, and improving highstate output. The changes also include updates to shell scripts used for bootstrapping, and fixing code in system control and networking settings. The impact of these changes likely relates to improving system automation, stability and maintainability within the SaltStack ecosystem.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
saltstack/salt-bootstrap
Mar 2015 - Aug 2018
Generic Salt Bootstrap Script
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:23 commits, 13 PRs, 37 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ronald primarily focused on improving the bootstrapping script for SaltStack. Their contributions include fixing issues related to tag fetching, adapting the script for POSIX-compliant sed, and correcting configuration paths for FreeBSD. Furthermore, they made enhancements for handling different Python versions and addressed compatibility issues with Fedora. These changes suggest an effort to ensure broader platform support and improve the robustness of SaltStack's deployment process.
bootstrap-scriptsaltgenericbootstrapsaltstack
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