Jeroen van Nieuwenhuizen

About

Personal

In my free time I can be found cycling, sitting at home due to Covid-19 restrictions or just having fun. My other free time activities include reading books, skiing, playing chess and exploring all kind of topics I get interested in. I have a passion for learning new technologies and improving my knowledge on all kind of topics.

Professional

In 2002 I got my MSc. in Technical Computer Science from the University of Twente. After graduating with a specialisation in Computer Security I started working for an Internet Company. In 2005 I made the switch to IT consultancy and have been doing that ever since.

Consultancy

I help customers design, implement, improve and automate the rollout and management of their IT infrastructure in the cloud and/or on premise.

Training

Beside my consultancy activities I am also active as a technical trainer, with a focus on teaching SaltStack and SUSE courses.

Technical Skills

An incomplete selection of my technical skills. An overview of my certifications can be found here.

Automation

SaltStack
Ansible
Puppet
Terraform

Linux

RedHat Enterprise Linux
SuSe Linux Enterprise Server
Ubuntu
Debian

Monitoring

Nagios
Zabbix
Prometheus

Cloud

OpenStack
AWS
Docker (Swarm)
Ceph Storage

Programming

Python
Perl
PHP
Shell Scripting

Databases

MySQL
PostgreSQL
Cassandra
MongoDB

Projects

Short summaries of projects I have been involved in.

I advised on the alternatives for SUSE OpenStack, and helped them switch to the new RedHat OpenStack platform.

Automotive Company

OpenStack Consultant

Solving a problem within their Rook setup as well as sharing Ceph knowledge and giving advise on how to improve their Ceph setup

Vegetable Breeding Company

Ceph Consultant

Improving, upgrading, managing and rolling out 1000+ desktops using ansible.

Government Organisation

Ansible Consultant

Design and implementation of the HA infrastructure for their website on a cloud platform.

Online Liquor Seller

Cloud Consultant

I detected and solved misconfigurations in their Ceph deployments avoiding major problems in case of data center room outages.

Automotive Company

Ceph Consultant

I helped the customer improve the way they use SaltStack within their organisation as well as improving their knowledge of how to use SaltStack.

International Organisation

SaltStack Consultant

Design and implementation of a completely Open Source based OpenStack environment.

Government Organisation

OpenStack Consultant

Building a dashboard using Flask and Python to show the status of all OpenStack environments in one overview.

Automotive Company

Python Programmer

Migrating part of their infrastructure to a cloud environment.

Supermarket

Cloud Consultant

Designing and building their Big Data platform in a High Performance Cloud Computing Platform.

Accounting Company

Cloud & Big Data Consultant

Coaching the team on building a complete Open Source based OpenStack solution.

Government Organisation

Agile Coach

Upgrade of their Ceph environment to a newer version.

Eductional Institute

Ceph Consultant

Teaching SaltStack to one of their teams as well as helping the team setup their SaltStack environment.

Global IT services Company

Saltstack Trainer & Consultant

Management of the systems and applications related to passenger handling and flight planning.

Airline

IT Consultant

Redesign and upgrade of their puppet infrastructure.

Human Resource Provider

Puppet Consultant

Speaking / Teaching

A global overview about the subjects I have given workshops, talks and courses about. A complete overview can be found here.

Speaking

OpenStack
Puppet
HAST
FreeBSD
Bash

Courses

SaltStack
SUSE Enterprise Storage

Workshops

SaltStack
OpenStack
Git
Red Hat Linux
HAST

Contact

Feel free to invite me for dinner if you think we can have an interesting or mutual benefitting conversation. If you have another offer, opportunity, or introduction that might make my life more interesting you can send an email to contact (at) jeroen (dot) se. Due to my other priorities, for example playing with my cats, I’ll only respond to those proposals that are a good match for my schedule and interests.