Sjors Van Der Geest
Owner at DataInit
Roelofarendsveen, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSjors Van Der Geest is a seasoned DevOps and cloud-native generalist with 9 years of experience building and operating high-capacity infrastructure across telecom, finance, defense, and maritime sectors. As founder of DataInit and co-founder of Lochbook, he blends entrepreneurship with hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, OpenStack, CI/CD, and networking, often automating solutions in Python, Go and Bash. He has scaled private clouds, managed multi-terabyte Elasticsearch clusters, and designed resilient video and OTT delivery platforms for hundreds of thousands of users. Comfortable from low-level networking to platform orchestration, he’s repeatedly delivered observability and automation at scale using Elastic Stack, Prometheus/Grafana, Ansible and Terraform. Based in the Netherlands, he prefers pragmatic engineering and has a knack for turning large, messy data streams into actionable insights.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)MBO ict beheer, MBO ict beheer at ROC Leiden
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Github Skills (9)
app-search9
elastic9
elasticsearch8
python7
kubernetes-cluster7
windows-service6
k8s6
helm5
kubernetes5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sjors101/Puppet_CertificateDistribution
Sep 2016 - Jul 2019
Distributing certificates
Contributions:2 releases, 21 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 10 months
certificates
sjors101/connectors
Feb 2024 - Apr 2024
Source code for all Elastic connectors, developed by the Search team at Elastic, and home of our Python connector development framework
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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