Your technology partner
As a technology enthousiast, I love helping companies to overcome their technological challenges. Moving to the cloud in a role as hands-on engineer, implementing the necessary quality assurance processes or helping your board making the right technological decisions: as a former founder myself I know that a product is never finished and I’ve got to experience every aspect of a successfully grown startup.
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Who am i?
I’m Michiel Ootjers, born in the 80s, coding since I was twelve. Founded a succesful startup in which my former employees found me to be an excellent people manager. I’ve been known to thrive when there is a crisis and always find a way to implement modern solutions (technological or organizational) for company challenges.
- Over 20 years of experience in Ops and Development
- Always interested in modern proven technology
- Founder, CTO, Board-member, Lead Developer or Cloud Engineer, I love it all
- My people skills and technological background help teams to respect me
- I believe people will do the best thing when you empower them
- I’m comfortable to work with engineering sizes from
My skillset
Bootstrapping a new product, turning your existing monolith to a MicroService architecture, laying the groundwork for your development team by setting up a production grade Kubernetes cluster or just setting up a new engineering team. Choose your battle.
- Excellent problem solving skills in either Operations or Development
- Implemented compliance such as ISO27001 or ENSIA
- Building engineering teams (platform and code) using SCRUM or KANBAN
- Database design, Microservice Architecture, DDD, CQRS/Eventsourcing
- Over 15 years of experience in backend languages like Perl, Python, PHP or JS
- Automation is my friend with IaC: Gitlab/Github, Helm, Terraform, etc
What projects stand out
Don’t just take my word for it - Let the projects below speak for themselves
What started as a Perl monolith is now a microservice architecture using Python and ReactJS. By building a CQRS framework using FastAPI on top and several python workers listening on a AMQP messagebus, I’ve managed to create a system in which we could rapidly move away from our monolith to a scalable SaaS Application.
Techstack: Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, ReactJS, Redux, S3, Aurora, Docker, Gitlab, Helm, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch
Zaaksysteem.nl
Lead Developer
With over 12 acquisitions, we needed a way to integrate our different software. By creating the xxllnc Cloud where all applications are launched and implemented using Platform Engineering, we managed to phase out datacenters and bring our teams together on our multi-organization Kubernetes cluster on AWS. And implemented a cost saving of >40% in the process.
Techstack: AWS Controltower, EKS, Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Prometheus, Terraform, Gitlab pipelines, IAC, KEDA
xxllnc
CTO
We needed the infrastructure to support the new microservice architecture of the software, so we created a Kubernetes cluster with a LGTM stack. Using IaC and infrastructure tests, live changes to the infra were possible. Using metrics we could scale our infrastructure based on customer usage and using Spot Instances we kept our cloud costs maintainable.
Techstack: K8S, HPA, Terraform, Terratest, LGTM, ElasticSearch, ElastiCache, Amazon MQ, Amazon Aurora, S3, Cloudfront
Zaaksysteem.nl
Cloud Engineer
As an owner of a company which grew from 2 to 35 employees, you get used to tackle the occasional challenges. By implementing governance using Holacracy, I’ve found a way to match our company to our “open source”-minded employees when we grew over 20 employees. Coworkers would describe me as a technical people manager, best known for my lead-by-example way of managing. I was formally known as the CTO, but was also responsible for Tech, HR and Finance.
Zaaksysteem.nl
Owner
MHASMO was specialized in creating high-performance infrastructure for customers demanding more than a handful of servers. When Linux was involved, they turned to me to build their infrastructure, which was mostly a set of HAProxy loadbalancers, CentOS/Ubuntu application servers and a DRBD backed master-master MySQL cluster. Rollout using Chef or Puppet. And occasionally advising software teams how to make their software scale on these kind of clusters.
MHASMO
Linux Endboss
KPN turned to me when they got in trouble with their provisioning system behind their public hotspots. In less then 9 months we transformed their on Windows based server platform to a stable linux based cluster. By implementing best practices in their software, to make sure the database was friendly queried and sessions were properly stored HotSpots was stable and ready to grow to the future.
Techstack: PHP, CentOS, MSSQL,
KPN HotSpots
Cluster Engineer