Wilco Hofman
Infrastructure Specialist at ASTRON
Meppel, Drenthe, Netherlands
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Top SchoolWilco Hofman is an infrastructure specialist with 17+ years of hands-on experience designing secure, resilient networks and systems for research and enterprise environments. He currently architects network segmentation and security operations for ASTRON’s LOFAR 2.0 while maintaining high-availability, federated authentication, and IPv6 deployments at NIKHEF. A long-time open-source contributor, he has significant Samba and registry work, kernel patches for networking, and numerous protocol-level fixes that reflect deep debugging skills across IP, TCP, SMB, IMAP and more. Equally comfortable in Windows and Linux domains, he focuses on windows–linux integration, central IT management, and intuitive tooling for complex infrastructures. His background in retail process automation and treasurer roles shows a pragmatic streak for process, budgets and operational maintainability beyond pure engineering. Colleagues rely on him to solve the rare, thorny problems others avoid and to translate technical complexity into usable, auditable systems.
17 years of coding experience
Linux professional level 3, Linux professional level 3 at Linux professional instituteBachelor's Degree Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree Information Technology at Amsterdam University of Applied SciencesZarafa advanced engineer, Zarafa advanced engineer at Zarafa BV
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (200)
sia10
cpp10
single-page-application10
alarm10
hotel-booking10
email-marketing10
sql10
golang10
high-performance10
database10
hostname10
homekit10
proxy-server10
cicd10
gitlab10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
synnack/capirca
Feb 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 1 year 6 months
bitlair/siahsd
Jul 2012 - Feb 2022
SIA-HS Alarm Monitoring Server
Contributions:67 commits, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 9 years 7 months
monitoringsiamonitoring-serveralarm
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