Steven Bakker
Member Of Works Council at AMS-IX
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSteven Bakker is a seasoned platform and solution architect with 21 years of experience designing and delivering resilient networked systems from backbone routing to IX-as-a-service offerings at AMS-IX. He combines deep hands-on skills in Linux, Perl, Bash and DevOps practices with strategic product and stakeholder bridging—translating management requirements into secure, operable solutions and coordinating cross-team implementations. A long-time network engineer turned architect and works council member, he brings rare institutional knowledge of internet exchange operations, having led projects like EasyAccess, Closed User Groups and a Salesforce integration. He also contributes to open-source tooling (improving install scripts and shell robustness for a widely used Solarized terminal theme), reflecting a pragmatic focus on automation and maintainability. Based in Amsterdam, he pairs academic grounding in computer science with a proven track record of moving complex infrastructure initiatives from concept to production.
21 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Atlas College HoornMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Dutch, English, Italian, goa'uld
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Github Skills (20)
scripting10
bash10
script10
sh10
shell10
command-line-interface9
command-line9
cli9
automation7
automations7
data-mapper6
database6
fetch-api6
nodejs6
php6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aruhier/gnome-terminal-colors-solarized
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Solarized Gnome Terminal colors, based on http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Steven contributed to improving the installation script for the Solarized Gnome Terminal color scheme. Their work involved refining the help message, converting confirmation prompts to uppercase using bash, and optimizing version parsing within the bash script. Additionally, they corrected quoting issues and made improvements to the profile comparison logic.
terminal-colorsgnomesolarizedterminalgnome-terminal
sbakker/perl-Term-CLI
Feb 2018 - Dec 2022
Perl CLI interpreter based on Term::ReadLine
Contributions:3 releases, 594 commits, 15 PRs in 4 years 10 months
golangclireadlineinterpreterterm
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