Hijmen Fokker

Co-Founder

The Randstad, Netherlands14 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Kubernetes and DevOps practices.
Proven track record in building enterprise-grade platforms.
Strong leadership in coaching and hiring DevOps teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a DevOps expert specializing in Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure for enterprise solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesDevopsCi/cdJavaWeb Development

Other Skills

AWS EC2Agile SCRUMAnsibleBambooDB AutomationDevOps toolingDockerDocker composeGitGitOpsGitlabGrafanaImplementationInfrastructure as code (IaC)Jenkins

About

Bij Pionative geloven we dat MKB(+) organisaties veel efficiënter Kubernetes kunnen gebruiken.Wij bieden een Enterprise-level Kubernetes platform voor het MKB. Betaalbaar, in jouw eigen omgeving. Met de continuïteit geborgd door een extern platformteam.Als Certified Kubernetes Service Provider hebben we een standaard Kubernetes platform ontwikkeld dat in jouw organisatie en jouw omgeving kan worden geïmplementeerd. In ongeveer een week.Interesse! Neem even contact met mij op, dan leg ik uit hoe het precies werkt.

Experience

Pionative

Founder

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · Utrecht en omgeving

At Pionative, we help development teams with Kubernetes using best-practices and reusable components. We implement and maintain Kubernetes stacks using reusable components for our clients and help development teams accelerate. We facilitate Platform Development for teams to give them all the tools they need to develop better, faster and more secure.

KubernetesDevOpsPlatform Development

Stater n.v.

Senior DevOps Engineer & SRE

Oct 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Utrecht Area, Netherlands

I was the technical lead/architect for the Kubernetes stack running 50+ (micro)services in production with 10+ DevOps teams using the platform and DevOps tooling. Some of my tasks & responsibilities included:
Design and build an enterpise-grade Kubernetes stack from the ground up with a hybrid-cloud strategy
Design and build a GitOps platform with complete developer self-service, including pipelines, monitoring, central logging
Hiring and coaching DevOps Engineers and developers

KubernetesGitOpsDevOps toolingDevOps

Honeywell

Senior DevOps Engineer (Contract)

Oct 2018 – May 2019 · 7 mos · Sydney en omgeving, Australië

Developing & Architecting CI/CD Pipelines for 2000+ developers
Daily Production deployments, fully automated with testing, security, code-quality & monitoring
Docker & Kubernetes (Openshift) stack
Standardized development Templates for optimal DevOps productivity with Microservices architecture
Pipeline & DevOps team monitoring based on Executive KPI's

CI/CDDockerKubernetes

Teqbird

Freelance DevOps Engineer & Architect

Jun 2018 – Feb 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Utrecht, Nederland

Capgemini nederland

Senior Consultant | DevOps Engineer & Java Architect

Jan 2015 – Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Utrecht en omgeving, Nederland

Responsible for application-architecture, development and implementation for an enterprise Java web-application for a government organization
Agile SCRUM & DevOps environment (Full automation)
Implemented CI & CD as a DevOps Engineer / Architect
Coaching developers with development, test-automation and DevOps practices
Designing, developing changes for a retail-product and consulting customers in Thailand and Germany
Responsible for application architecture, development environments and release & version management. Coordinating software releases
Trained customer IT-teams in Bangkok (Thailand) in order to be self-sufficient.
Restructured the full development and test-environments using Docker & Vagrant in order to increase time to market
Setup the branching strategy (feature, release and maintenance branches)
Coaching several students in graduation-projects

JavaDevOpsAgile SCRUM

Swiftbird

Software Developer - Entrepreneur

Mar 2012 – Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Utrecht en omgeving, Nederland

Responsible for design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance of web shops and web applications for various customers
Custom web shop and payment solutions
Custom Content Management System product development & distribution

Web DevelopmentTestingImplementation