Job van Ooik

DevOps Engineer as part of an IT systems team responsible for the cloud infrastructure and deployment automation of the Lovion platform used by field technicians across the Netherlands.

- Developing and maintaining Ansible playbooks and reusable Galaxy roles to automate platform deployments, upgrades and security patching

- Building reusable Terraform modules for AWS cloud infrastructure, improving consistency and maintainability across environments

- Managing Kubernetes workloads deployed via ArgoCD and GitOps workflows

- Maintaining Citrix Desktop as a Service (DaaS) workspaces

- Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery

- Hosting training sessions for gas and electrical field technicians on the Lovion platform

Followed a tailored 14-month Young Expert Program at Young Colfield. My traineeship at Young Colfield focused on personal development and preparing fresh graduates for the professional world.

During my traineeship I worked on:

- My personal & professional vision

- Effective working

- Stress management & resilience

During my time at Tres Ltd. I researched and developed an internal chatbot using vector databases and retrieval augmented generation. The chatbot could answer questions about documentation and their operations platform.

For this project I mainly worked with: Python, Vue, Docker, TypeScript, LangChain, large language models and generative AI.

During my internship I focused on ENPICOM's AWS-based antibody analysis platform. I worked on optimising resource usage by implementing resource logging & improving Kubernetes job scheduling system.

For this project I mainly worked with: TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL & Kubernetes.

Studied Computer Science with focus on software development.

Skills: Laravel, REST APIs, CI/CD, .NET Core, ASP.NET, Scrum, Kotlin, TypeScript, Docker, Angular, DevOps, Node.js, C#, Git.

Skills: Target group research, Design Based Working (DBW).

At Scouting Nederland, I worked as a volunteer to organise weekly activities for our teenage members. Together with my fellow group leaders, we helped them develop skills while having fun with their peers.

We also had regular activities for ourselves to broaden our skill set; these included first aid training and the pedagogical aspect of our role as group leaders.