Summary
Wouter Oosterveld is a seasoned Linux consultant and Ops engineer with 13 years of experience designing and operating resilient infrastructure across Red Hat, Debian, FreeBSD and AWS environments. He blends deep systems expertise—mail systems, firewalls, backup strategies, virtualization and databases—with automation using CFEngine, Salt, Puppet and Ansible to support agile development teams. Comfortable scripting and programming in C, shell, Python, Perl and PHP, he also explores functional languages like Haskell and Clojure, bringing a pragmatic curiosity to solving tricky integration problems. His background spans hands-on managed hosting, R&D and DevOps roles, favoring maintainable, low-cost open source solutions and operational simplicity. Based in the Greater Enschede Area, he pairs broad toolchain knowledge (Tomcat/Wildfly, MySQL, Apache, SVN/Git) with a bias for durable, low-maintenance configurations.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering at University of Twente
VWO, VWO at Stedelijk Lyceum Enschede
English