Tim Stoop
Senior Solutions Architect at ACC ICT
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTim Stoop is a Senior Solutions Architect with 16 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native, containerized infrastructures from Eindhoven. As a long-time founder and former CEO of Kumina, he specializes in managed Kubernetes platforms and end-to-end operations for mission-critical systems, balancing strategic leadership with a preference to stay technical. He has built and sold services to enterprises and startups alike, running his own holding and directing multiple infrastructure-focused companies along the way. An active contributor to open-source tooling, Tim has improved reliability in projects like python-beaver by tackling RabbitMQ timeout and reconnection issues—practical fixes that reflect his operational focus. His background in computer science and applied physics underpins a pragmatic approach to resilience, automation, and scalable architecture. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic operator who prefers solving tricky infra problems over high-level buzzwords.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
HAVO, -, HAVO, - at RomboutscollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Fontys HogescholenApplied physics, Applied physics at Hogeschool Zuyd (Maastricht, Heerlen, Sittard)
English, Dutch, German, French
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Github Skills (5)
rabbitmq10
configuration-management10
python10
documentation9
logging9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
python-beaver/python-beaver
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Needs Maintainer: python daemon that munches on logs and sends their contents to logstash
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 14 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tim's contributions focused on improving the functionality and configuration of the `python-beaver` project. They addressed a timeout issue related to RabbitMQ, introducing and adjusting a `rabbitmq_timeout` configuration parameter. The user also made changes to the project's documentation and attempted a change to the default `rabbitmq_timeout` value, reverting the change due to a conflict with the system. Finally, the user addressed the need to reconnect to a lost RabbitMQ connection to enable the daemon to continue running.
pythonneeds-maintainerdaemonlogginglogstash
timstoop/puppet-os-hardening
Jun 2018 - Nov 2019
This puppet module provides numerous security-related configurations, providing all-round base protection.
Contributions:1 PR, 115 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 6 months
puppetsecuritypuppet-moduleprotectionconfigurations
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