Rutger Blom
Senior Consultant at Advania Sweden
Helsingborg, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolRutger Blom is a Senior Consultant and vExpert based in Helsingborg, Sweden, with nine years focused on designing, implementing, and automating VMware Software-Defined Data Centers. He specializes in VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX, and infrastructure automation, combining hands-on engineering with solution-architecture experience from roles at VMware, Proact, and now Advania Sweden. Rutger has repeatedly worked at the intersection of networking and security, bringing deep operational insight from earlier IT operations and team-lead roles in public sector and academia. He is known for translating complex SDDC requirements into automated, repeatable deployments that reduce risk and speed time-to-value. Colleagues value his blend of field-proven consulting, vendor-side perspective, and pragmatic scripting/automation skills. Outside of projects, he leverages practical, self-taught systems experience—“the School of Hard Knocks”—to solve the messy problems that formal training often misses.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Life, Life at The School of Hard Knocks
English, Swedish, Dutch
Github Skills (18)
esxi10
vsphere10
automated-deployment10
vmware10
automation10
vsan10
ansible10
network-automation10
devops10
vcenter10
bind10
terraform7
terraform-provider6
kubernetes5
statistics1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rutgerblom/terraform
Feb 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:238 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
rutgerblom/SDDC.Lab
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Ansible playbooks that automate deployment and configuration of nested VMware Software-Defined Data Center environments including solutions like vSphere, vSAN, NSX, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service, NSX Advanced Load Balancer, Aria Operations for Logs, VyOS, and ISC BIND.
Contributions:52 reviews, 964 commits, 428 PRs in 2 years 9 months
ymlnsxedge-nodesvspherenetwork-automation
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