Thomas Van Neerijnen
DevOps Consultant at side8
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorThomas Van Neerijnen is a DevOps consultant and platform engineer with 12 years of experience building and accelerating application platforms for enterprises and startups. He played a core engineering role in designing HMRC’s tax platform—building its Docker scheduler and deployment pipelines—and has repeatedly delivered rapid onboarding and deployment improvements for organisations like Kingfisher, Xinja and Lifebox Health. Thomas blends hands-on implementation (Kubernetes, serverless AWS architectures, CI/CD automation) with pragmatic advisory work, offering everything from two-week Kubernetes bootstraps to non-executive guidance. He founded side8 and co-founded security-focused drie, demonstrating an ability to marry developer experience with stringent operational and security requirements. Based in Stony Stratford, he also contributes front-end improvements to OSS docs sites, showing attention to both platform reliability and user-facing polish.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
docusaurus10
website-development10
ui-design9
css9
html8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
localhost-run/site
Jan 2021 - Oct 2022
The website and docs
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 3 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on the user interface of the website. They made several changes to the Docusaurus configuration, including URL updates, and adding and modifying help links. Their work also included correcting phrasing, improving the layout, adjusting the terminal display, and implementing custom styling for the website. Additionally, they worked on adding a price call out for the subscription.
jsjavascript
hmrc/wristband-frontend
Jul 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:128 commits, 31 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 months
golanginternal-toolinternalenvironments
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