Summary
Sjoer Van Der Ploeg is a hands-on technician and self-taught programmer with 11 years of practical experience maintaining live streaming infrastructure and supporting telecom services. Based in Groningen, he runs non-profit live event streaming for DJ-Friday.com, managing servers and services like NGINX-RTMP, Apache, MySQL, IceCast and Asterisk while operating on-site as stage support during broadcasts. A tinkerer who deliberately breaks working systems to learn how to fix them, he quickly picks up new languages and tools and is comfortable spanning hardware, networking and software layers. Currently studying game design and development at Hanzehogeschool, he pairs formal IT education with a hobbyist’s curiosity and real-world operational experience. Notably, his career blends customer-facing telecom support with deep, practical service administration—making him equally at home on the helpdesk or in the server room.
11 years of coding experience
Information Technology, Information Technology at Hanzehogeschool Groningen
Information Technology, Information Technology at NHL Hogeschool
Dutch, English