Simon Van Der Veldt
Big Data Platform Consultant (via Xebia)
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Van Der Veldt is a Big Data Platform Consultant with 13 years of experience designing and implementing scalable, automated data platforms and CI/CD infrastructures for enterprises like Vinted and FedEx. He combines hands-on skills in Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, Spark, Airflow/Dagster and GCP/AWS with a pragmatic focus on simplifying architecture, speeding deployments and increasing reliability. As a consultant at Xebia he embeds in teams to drive ownership, platform-minded engineering and DevOps/MLops practices across data science environments. His work spans both cloud-native data lakehouse builds and platform/PaaS transformations, delivering measurable improvements in deployment frequency and operational predictability. An early contributor to embedded/IoT open-source tooling (norns), he brings an engineer’s attention to system behavior and edge-case fixes alongside large-scale platform design.
13 years of coding experience
Atheneum Natuur en Techniek, Atheneum Natuur en Techniek at College HageveldBachelor Automotive Engineering, Bachelor Automotive Engineering at Rotterdam University of Applied SciencesFahrzeugbau, Fahrzeugbau at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Github Skills (14)
lua10
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embedded9
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c178
hardware-interface8
integrations8
system-integration8
c118
system-administration7
i2c7
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
monome/norns
Feb 2018 - Apr 2020
norns is many sound instruments.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 14 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Simon contributed to the `norns` project by addressing various software-related issues. Their work included fixing an include issue related to `libevdev`, adding a newline to an error message within the i2c module, and modifying the main menu order. Furthermore, the user removed redundant restart commands within the menu system and implemented whitespace fixes, suggesting efforts to optimize and maintain the codebase. Additionally, they addressed the system's behavior during shutdown by preventing the turning off of wifi.
midinornsaudiomusicsound
simonvanderveldt/gentoo
Mar 2017 - Mar 2026
The official mirror the Gentoo ebuild repository
Contributions:70 pushes, 59 branches in 9 years 1 month
ebuildgentooebuild-repository
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