Xander Soldaat
Senior Specialist Adoption Architect at Red Hat
Earth, Texas, France
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Top SchoolXander Soldaat is a Senior Specialist Adoption Architect with 13 years of hands-on experience helping organizations adopt cloud-native platforms, currently focused on OpenShift at Red Hat. He combines deep expertise in Kubernetes/OpenShift, big data tools like Splunk and NFSen, and decades of embedded and infrastructure engineering to translate complex requirements into scalable, production-ready systems. A true polyglot engineer and mentor, he has shipped firmware and server software, built CI images and migration tools, and led cross-disciplinary projects from feasibility studies to deployment. Outside work he runs Botbench, pursues robotics and retro-computing, and is actively exploring machine learning to fuse modern AI with hardware — a hint at future robotics/ML integrations. His background includes technical reviewing for No Starch Press and collaborating on high-impact public-sector and telecom projects, showing a mix of product, research and operational experience. Pragmatic, curious and versatile, he thrives at the intersection of cloud operations, embedded systems and developer enablement.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
VMware vSphere 4.x course, VMware vSphere 4.x course at VMware IT AcademyRisk Cost Driven Architecture, Risk Cost Driven Architecture at CGILeaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate at St Kilian's Deutsche Schule DublinPropedeuse, Computer Science, Propedeuse, Computer Science at Saxion University of Applied SciencesBachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems Equivalency, Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems Equivalency at Nova Southeastern UniversityCisco Certified Network Associate, Cisco Certified Network Associate at Cisco Networking AcademyCoaching of Junior Employees, Coaching of Junior Employees at Ordina
English, Dutch, German, French
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Github Skills (64)
robotc10
nxt10
lego-mindstorms9
lego-mindstorms-ev39
jetson8
ubuntu8
ide8
nvidia8
esxi8
ipmi7
robotics7
neovim7
touchscreen7
compatibility7
lua7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
botbench/robotcdriversuite
Mar 2013 - Jul 2017
Contributions:84 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 4 years 4 months
nxtrobotcev3suite
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