Willem Van Eck
DevOps Engineer at Block
Los Altos, California, United States
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Top SchoolWillem Van Eck is a DevOps/Continuous Integration engineer with 9 years of experience building and stabilizing developer platforms and deployment pipelines across high-scale environments. Currently at Block after 3.5 years on Nextdoor’s Developer Experience team, he has led efforts to standardize development environments, accelerate developer velocity, and maintain resilient CD pipelines. His background spans microservices, AWS (ECS, EKS, CloudFormation), Docker, Redis, CircleCI, and languages like Python and Go, with hands-on oncall experience for production microservices. Earlier work includes launching Nextdoor into new countries and converting inter-service communication formats at Microsoft, showing a knack for operationalizing complex systems and data-heavy launches. Based in Los Altos and trained in Math, CS and Stats at UC Berkeley, he blends rigorous analytical thinking with practical infrastructure craftsmanship.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics and Computer Science and Statistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics and Computer Science and Statistics at University of California, BerkeleyLos Altos High School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (66)
jira10
go-client9
atlassian9
client-library9
redis9
deployment-automation9
database8
amazon-sqs8
nosql8
testing8
multiprocessing8
aws8
strings8
lists8
continuous-integration8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Nextdoor/gogo
Mar 2020 - Jan 2022
Go Link Shortening Service
Contributions:3 releases, 8 reviews, 32 commits in 1 year 9 months
golangshorteninglink
githubschool/conflict-practice-RKTMN
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
resolveletconflicts
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