Summary
Staf Wagemakers is a seasoned Unix, Linux and cloud security engineer with 13+ years of hands-on experience building and hardening infrastructure across public sector and defense-oriented organizations. As founder of Mask27.dev and an active freelance engineer, he blends deep systems‑level expertise (Solaris/GNU‑Linux, PostgreSQL, Apache/Tomcat) with automation and modern orchestration using Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes. He has repeatedly operated at the intersection of security and operations—roles ranging from Senior Unix System Engineer to Cloud Security Engineer—delivering reliable, auditable platforms for mission- and compliance-sensitive environments. Comfortable scripting in shell, Perl, Ruby, PHP and Python, he brings a pragmatic developer mindset to infrastructure problems and incident response. Based in Antwerp, Belgium, he balances consultancy and internal roles, often taking short-term specialist assignments that accelerate organisational security maturity. A practical technologist with a bachelor’s in electronics, he’s equally at home diagnosing low-level system issues and designing cloud-native deployment pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Electronics, Bachelor Electronics at Karel de Grote Hogeschool Antwerpen