Bas Berkhout

Co-Founder

Amsterdam, Netherlands22 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Founder of IPMHub.io, innovating infrastructure solutions.
Expert in Azure and Kubernetes with a focus on automation.
Proven track record in enhancing deployment strategies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer specializing in SaaS solutions and automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business OwnershipTerraformDevopsAzureAzure Kubernetes Service (aks)AutomationInfrastructure As Code (iac)Microsoft Azure

Other Skills

Bicep (Domain-Specific Language)Enterprise SoftwareCIPython (Programming Language)FlaskWindows PowerShellInfrastructuurAgileData AnalysisMonitoringAzure DevOpsGovernanceGitHubWordPresscPanel

About

I'm passionate about making infrastructure deployment less painful for everyone. After years of seeing teams struggle with the same challenges, I decided to do something about it. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, I live and breathe Azure, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code. I'm known for being straightforward about quality and structure - because let's face it, good infrastructure should be boring and reliable. My obsession with automation and efficient processes led me to start IPMHub.io. We're building what I wish existed years ago: a proper package manager for complete infrastructure solutions. Think npm or NuGet, but for your entire infrastructure stack. When I'm not helping teams improve their deployment strategies or working on IPMHub, you'll find me diving deep into Azure architectures, breaking (and fixing) things in Kubernetes, or automating yet another manual process that shouldn't exist in 2024. Off-screen (if any ;)), you'll find me on my bike, either enjoying solo rides to clear my mind or trying to keep up with my kids who are will win more races than I probably ever will. They keep me humble and remind me that sometimes the next generation just does it better.

Experience

22 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Ipmhub

Founder

May 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · Remote

Bicep (Domain-Specific Language)Business OwnershipTerraformEnterprise SoftwareCIPython (Programming Language)+1

Inspark | innovate to accelerate

2 roles

Senior Cloud engineer at InSpark | Innovate to Accelerate

Promoted

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

Introduced agile methodologies to enhance the stability and predictability of critical solutions, resulting in smoother and more predictable releases.
Provided support and guidance to colleagues in their day-to-day tasks, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing within the team.
Served as the primary technical contact for customers regarding Azure and our Managed Services, offering expertise and assistance to address their inquiries and concerns effectively.
Introduced innovative methods for gathering information to enhance our billing systems, providing daily trends in Azure usage for improved transparency and accuracy.
Designed and implemented a highly scalable AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) cluster for day-to-day deployments, serving as the overall architect of the system to ensure efficiency and reliability.

DevOpsWindows PowerShellInfrastructuurAzure

Cloud Engineer

Feb 2022 – Jan 2023 · 11 mos

Developed an Azure Policy frame work based on Bicep to ensure our customers meet compliance standards.
Enhanced our monitoring solutions, cutting deployment time from 40 hours to only 20 minutes for full deployments, and even faster for daily runs (less than 10 minutes).
Streamlined various support systems, improving efficiency across the board.
Conducted various customer onboarding processes, facilitating smooth transitions to our managed services.
Authored comprehensive assessments of our customers' overall Azure environment health, providing valuable insights for optimization and improvement strategies.

Bicep (Domain-Specific Language)Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)DevOpsWindows PowerShellInfrastructuurAzure

Corendon (touroperator)

System Engineer

Jan 2020 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Lijnden, North Holland Province, Netherlands

At Corendon I was mainly involved in setting up Microsoft Azure. Within this project was responsible for setting up the basic infrastructure and supporting the various teams in Turkey and Hungary. In addition, I ensured that all teams could operate within the set rules in terms of governance, security, backup, and (disaster)recovery.
I encouraged the 100% Infrastructure as Code philosophy based on Terraform.

Infrastructure as code (IaC)Azure DevOpsAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)TerraformMicrosoft AzureDevOps+3

Provide sme b.v.

2 roles

System engineer

Nov 2016 – Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Infrastructuur

Microsoft Specialist

Nov 2013 – Nov 2016 · 3 yrs

Westbury

2 roles

Technical support engineer.

Jan 2011 – Feb 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo

Aannemen en oplossen technische vragen over software van Westbury, MSSQL, Oracle, Tomcat.
Bewaken van het incident-proces
Het oplossen van problemen op afstand en op locatie.
Uitwerken van de centrale test omgevingen zodat we alle mogelijke klantsituaties konden nabouwen en testen.

System Administrator

Dec 2008 – Sep 2013 · 4 yrs 9 mos

Binnen Westbury ben ik verantwoordelijk voor de volgende projecten en taken.
1. Dagelijks onderhoud van het netwerk, Windows / Linux servers en clients.
2. Opzetten en onderhouden van de 6 VMWare hosts uit 6 hosts die gezamenlijk tegen de 30 verschillende VMwares draaien.
3. Medeverantwoordelijk voor de migratie van MS Exchange naar MS BPOS
4. Verantwoordelijk voor de migratie van MS BPOS naar Office 365
5. Inrichten van een geavanceerd back-up systeem voor zowel de documenten als de VMwares.
6. Technische onderzoeken naar de haalbaarheid van cloud oplossingen.

Under ctrl

Owner

Jan 2010 – Jan 2018 · 8 yrs

Under CTRL helpt haar klanten met het beheren van hun ICT omgevingen. Door dat wij zorgdragen voor uw ICT kunt u zich focussen op uw eigen business. Under CTRL is een ICT adviesbureau met bijna tien jaar ervaring, dat zich bezighoudt met het inventariseren en oplossen van ICT vraagstukken. Daarnaast bedenken en implementeren wij ICT oplossingen die uw rendement gegarandeerd verhogen.

Westscope / westbury

Technical Support Engineer

Jan 2006 – Jan 2011 · 5 yrs

Aannemen en oplossen technische vragen over software van Westbury, MSSQL, Oracle, Tomcat.
Bewaken van het incident-proces
Het oplossen van problemen op afstand en op locatie.
Uitwerken van de centrale test omgevingen zodat we alle mogelijke klantsituaties konden nabouwen en testen.