Sander Botman
Co-Founder at MINDEF (NL)
Hoorn, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSander Botman is a cloud-focused co-founder and seasoned engineer with 13 years of experience building 100% serverless AWS solutions and automated landing zones for large enterprises. He combines hands-on development in Go, Java and Ruby with DevOps and infrastructure expertise—having led AWS landing-zone teams for LeasePlan, PVH and national-scale projects like MINDEF (NL). A long-time contributor to Ops-focused open source such as the Nagios cookbook and Chef Infra CLI tooling, he brings practical experience refactoring code, adding tests and improving deployability. His background spans mission-critical engineering, IoT-driven Industry 4.0 platforms for Heineken, and large-scale container migrations, reflecting a knack for turning complex operational requirements into reliable, auditable platforms. Based in the Netherlands, he pairs entrepreneurial leadership with deep troubleshooting, monitoring and automation skills that keep production systems resilient.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MBO, MBO at Alkwaard College, Heerhugowaard
Github Skills (29)
cookbook10
cloud-computing10
nagios10
command-line-interface10
configuration-management10
apache-cloudstack10
java10
ruby10
javas10
chef-client10
automation10
virtualization10
command-line10
chef-solo10
automations10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/nagios
Dec 2014 - Jul 2017
Development repository for the nagios cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Software Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Software EngineerContributions:14 releases, 249 commits, 108 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sander primarily contributed to the Nagios cookbook, focusing on refactoring existing code and adding new features. This involved modifying configuration files, creating LWRPs, and restructuring the project's organization. They also improved the build process and added tests. A significant portion of their work involved enabling and configuring databags to allow a more flexible and configurable Nagios setup.
cookbookvagrantnagioschef-resourcemanaged-by-terraform
chef/chef
Apr 2013 - Nov 2013
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Sander primarily contributed to the Chef Infra project by implementing and refactoring command-line interface (CLI) tools. Their work includes adding new commands for environment constraint management and refactoring existing ones, such as the compare command, for improved functionality and testability. The user also focused on enhancing the code by adding options and unit tests, thereby demonstrating a focus on quality and maintainability. Furthermore, the user demonstrated DevOps skills by interacting with the deployment and infrastructure aspects, as is common when working on a project that uses automation to configure, deploy, and manage infrastructure.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
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