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Hello, I am Hugo

Hugo van der Zwaag

DevOps Consultant at Zwaag.io

I’m an enthusiastic teamplayer, always up for a challenge and not afraid to learn new skills. With a strong passion for sustainability, working on projects that impact the present and future.

Learning fast
Teamwork
Problem solving
Perseverance

Skills

Experience

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Site Reliability Engineer
Nederlandse Spoorwegen

Jan 2022 - Present, Utrecht

NS is the largest public transport company in the Netherlands, mostly known for national railway transport.

Responsibilities:
  • Improving reliability, stability and security of applications and platforms.
  • Aiding teams in their migration to cloud-native development.
  • Advocating and teaching DevOps principles to development teams.
  • Building shared Azure DevOps templates for the organization.
  • Improving applications and pipelines running on several cloud platforms (AWS, Azure & others)
  • Migrating teams to and designing serverless architectures on AWS.
SRE coach/trainer 
NN

Apr 2023 - Jun 2023, Rotterdam

Responsibilities:
  • Two month training program in which the team created a complete monitoring setup for 2 of their applications.
  • Both theoretical overview as well as practical knowledge.
  • Very high satisfaction from the participants.
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DevOps Consultant
DevOn

Oct 2021 - Dec 2021, Delft

Through consultancy, training and DevOps delivery teams, DevOn helps organizations to radically improve their software development so they can stay ahead of the competition in this rapidly changing market.

Responsibilities:
  • Building and designing CI/CD pipelines and components in several programming languages.
  • Providing and developing training in several DevOps related topics.
  • Cloud engineering and consultancy.
DevOps Consultant (through DevOn)
NN

Oct 2021 - Dec 2021, Den Haag

Multinational finance company focused on insurance, active in over 20 countries.

Responsibilities:
  • Building serverless workflows in AWS Lambda.
  • Building and designing compliance automation using both Azure and AWS components.
  • Create CI/CD pipelines.
  • Provision infrastructure as code using Terraform on Azure, Azure DevOps and AWS.
  • Presenting and explaining the solutions to the (internal) customers.
  • Software development in Python.
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Alliander

Jun 2018 - Sept 2021, Arnhem

A Distribution system operator responsible for delivering electricity and gas to nearly 6 million households and companies.

DevOps Engineer

Feb 2020 - Sept 2021

  • Maintain and expand our current multitenant Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms which serve approximately 50 development teams.
  • Build a fully automated workflow to provision all necessary resources and CI/CD capabilities for new tenants, new teams can start building within 10 minutes.
  • Design and build CI/CD workflows using several different tools (Jenkins, Tekton, GitLab CI & ArgoCD), integrating with several platforms (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes & On-prem).
  • Build and deploy Helm charts.
  • Assist in architecting robust, high-available architectures for several applications.
  • Software development in Java (11+), Kotlin (1.4+) & Python (3.6+).
  • Teach Kubernetes and cloud-native principles to tenants of our platform and new team members.
  • Guide the scrum process as scrum master (intermittently).
Junior DevOps Engineer

Jun 2018 - Feb 2020

  • Support users and expand on the existing Kubernetes platform serving approximately 10 development teams.
  • Enterprise software development in Java 8, for an application keeping the electricity network stable.
  • Expand and improve on existing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
  • Guide the scrum process for our platform team as scrum master (intermittently).
Developer
Delta Lloyd / NN

Dec 2016 - May 2018, Amsterdam

Multinational finance company focused on insurance, active in over 20 countries.

Responsibilities:
  • Enhance the claims processes using Business Process Management.
  • Analysis of business requirements.
  • Basic Java development.
  • Develop in the IBM process designer using Javascript.
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Researcher
Addis Abeba University

Dec 2015 - Jan 2016, Ethiopia

Largest university in Ethiopia

Responsibilities:
  • Set up the research project.
  • Collect field data.
  • Analyzed collected data.
  • Published paper in recognized journal.

Education

Utrecht University
2014-2016
M.Sc. Sustainable Development
VU Amsterdam
2012-2016
B.Sc. Science, Business & Innovation
Gymnasium Felisenum
2006-2011
Grammar school

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Apr 2021

This exam entailed learning about all of the major services that AWS has to offer and how to solve real-world challenges using these services.

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Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 8 Programmer II
Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 8 Programmer II
Nov 2019

Advanced exam focused on the intricacies of Java development.

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Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8 Programmer I
Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8 Programmer I
Apr 2018

Exam focused on the basics of Java development.

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Professional Scrum Master I
Professional Scrum Master I
Aug 2017

Certified to fulfill the role of Scrum Master.

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Certificate of Proficiency in English
Certificate of Proficiency in English
2011

Highest possible English certification offered by Cambridge University.

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