Ben (AngryDutchman)
(he/him)Ingenieur R&D/DevOps/ITsec/Perl guy
Guy in charge at Bearded Dutchman Services
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Guy in charge
Bearded Dutchman Services
Self-employed
Jan 2026 - Present
Guy in charge
Bearded Dutchman Services
Self-employed
A rather weird amalgamation of "plain" IT services such as: - Devops engineering - Infrastructure design and implementation - Perl and Go code Combined with a dash of marine industry things such as: - Boat IT - DIY instruments - DIY lithium pack builds - (inland) delivery captain - post-purchase familiarization courses And more...
Ingenieur R&D/Devops
OpenCaps
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Feb 2024 - Mar 2026
Ingenieur R&D/Devops
OpenCaps
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Responsible for maintaining dedicated server park, cloud infrastructure, security policies, edge devices, and day to day operations, as well as writing copious amounts of sofware in Perl and other languages. Key technologies: - Ansible - Docker - HashiCorp Consul - HashiCorp Nomad - HashiCorp Vault - Perl - Go
Owner
Blockstackers
France
Oct 2022 - Dec 2023
Owner
Blockstackers
France
Freelance devops engineer/systems architect
Ingenieur R&D - DevOps
Ubiant
Lyon Area, France
Jun 2017 - Sep 2022
Ingenieur R&D - DevOps
Ubiant
Lyon Area, France
Responsible for maintaining server park, security policies, and day to day operations. Key technologies: - Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Beats) - Graylog - Ansible - Docker - HashiCorp Consul - HashiCorp Nomad - HashiCorp Vault
Senior Backend Developer Perl
travel audience GmbH - An Amadeus Company
Oct 2015 - Jan 2017
Senior Backend Developer Perl
travel audience GmbH - An Amadeus Company
Writing copious amounts of Perl
Owner
Blockstackers
Jakarta, Indonesia
Dec 2013 - Sep 2015
Owner
Blockstackers
Jakarta, Indonesia
- Freelance Perl development - IT consulting - System administration on *nix systems - Code audits - Security assessments - Developer sourcing
Sales Engineer
Xynexis
Dec 2014 - Aug 2015
Sales Engineer
Xynexis
- Responsible for pursuing sales leads and offering technical insight into (potential) client issues - Marketing activities such as newsletter writing, event organisation - Account management for existing clients
Consultant
Xynexis
Jakarta
Mar 2014 - Dec 2014
Consultant
Xynexis
Jakarta
- Performing penetration tests using tools such as Nexpose, Backtrack and custom built tools - Performing code audits (Java, Perl, Python) - Delivering training classes relating to security, such as developing secure web applications, server hardening, network monitoring etc. - Presenting finding reports to clients
Owner
XiriNET
2009 - Dec 2013
Owner
XiriNET
- Freelance Perl development - IT consulting - System administration on *nix systems - Code audits - Security assessments - Developer sourcing
Developer
PT Bellua Asia Pacific
Jun 2007 - Jun 2009
Developer
PT Bellua Asia Pacific
- Developing web applications using Perl (Catalyst) and Python (Django) - Product development - Managing a small team of developers - Performing penetration tests - Performing code audits - Network design - System architecture design
Senior Systems Administrator
Hostnet BV
Jun 2006 - Jun 2007
Senior Systems Administrator
Hostnet BV
Taking care of the day to day operation of a medium sized webhost and server park. Responsible for migrating to our own suite, network architecture. Wrote various applications to better integrate our "paperless office" policy with our backends. Built anti-spam cluster for incoming mail, policy throttling setup for outgoing mail, high availability clustering for DNS, MySQL replication, custom package build and deployment system for Virtuozzo hosted VPS's, and solving any problems that got bounced up to our little department.
Perl Developer
Golden Bytes
Jan 2005 - Nov 2005
Perl Developer
Golden Bytes
Develop SMS driven applications in Perl using Golden Bytes' own framework
Perl Developer
TTY Internet Solutions
Jul 2003 - Nov 2004
Perl Developer
TTY Internet Solutions
Development and maintenance on various web applications
Skills: 52
Technical
Other
Projects: 1
CPAN Module Writing
metacpan.org/author/MADCAT
Jan 2007 - Present
CPAN Module Writing
metacpan.org/author/MADCAT
Wrote (and still writing) a bunch of Perl modules that ended up on CPAN
Publications: 1
Credentials: 2
Certified Secure Web Application Engineer
Mile2
ISO27001:2005 Lead Auditor
Bureau Veritas
Education: 2
Hogeschool Utrecht
BS
1996 - 1997
Hogeschool Utrecht
BS
Activities / Societies: Linux Lab
Scala College
HAVO
1990 - 1995
Scala College
HAVO
