Summary
Rowan Ruseler is a Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer based in Amsterdam with nine years of hands-on experience building and operating secure, scalable cloud and bare-metal platforms. He specializes in Kubernetes, AWS, Infrastructure as Code, and distributed systems tuning—having optimized Ceph, Istio, OpenSearch, Pulsar, Vault and certificate automation at global multi-cluster scale. Rowan has led private cloud deployments and accelerated critical compliance and secrets-management projects under tight deadlines, blending pragmatic automation with a focus on resilience and least-privilege access. Currently focused on infrastructure security at Together while freelancing for small businesses, he combines deep Linux/container internals with practical cost and operational optimizations. A contributor-minded engineer and open-source enthusiast, he brings both platform-level architecture and day-to-day reliability expertise to complex production environments.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associate degree in Network and Systems Administration Information Technology, Associate degree in Network and Systems Administration Information Technology at ROC Mondriaan
English, Dutch