Career

Introduction

Hello there, my name is Jasper.

I have extensive experience in self hosting and production environments, ranging from bare-metal hosting to fully-fledged cloud computing. I have experience in setting up bare metal servers to run fully isolated and containerized edge computing deployments to provide near-instant service delivery to end-users with advanced CI/CD pipelines to automate menial tasks.

I have experience both in working on my own and working in a team. I pride myself in my excitement to learn new things and to produce and provide lasting solutions.

I also have experience in communicating expectations well, communicating with both colleagues and shareholders providing a good understanding for the people around me.

Current Work

Currently I work as a Dev-Ops Engineer in Australia.

Started here in August 2025, so far I have enjoyed my time here a lot. I am able to learn and improve a lot, as well as try out entirely new concepts.

Certifications

• Docker Mastery: with Kubernetes¹

Previous Employments

Dev-Ops Engineer at a company2

Developer & Specialist at Hedin IT

I helped maintain and develop solutions for Hedin IT. I primarily worked on maintaining existing network infrastructure, as well as aiding in large-scale migrations of equipment and new locations. Here I was able to learn more about overall system administration and network design without any of the risks of breaking things, as I was able to work with many seniors who were able to teach me a lot of the theory and see it applied in practice. My work here has been invaluable to me and I will remain forever grateful for the work I was able to do there.

I also developed solutions here, notably improving a workflow that used to take about 6 full days of work, and reducing it to about 10 minutes of work.

I also managed systems for BMW in the Netherlands, for both end users but also for the hired staff.

Left there in June 2025, to move to Australia. On leaving I received a very good recommendation from the (then) country manager of Hedin IT³.

The following are tools, concepts and or programming languages I utilized here: Meraki, Overlay Networking, Routing, Linux, Windows, CI/CD Pipelines, Typescript, Java & Kotlin, Kubernetes, C#, Docker, Bun & NodeJS

January 2024 - June 2025 (1.5 yrs)

Developer at Cyberfusion

Here I worked for only a short while, here I learnt more about Python, Docker and development practices.

September 2023 - December 2023 (3 mos)

IT Technician for Ziggo

Here I worked at Ziggo, an ISP in the Netherlands, this was mostly hardware work and taught me about hardware level network design, providing service to hundreds of thousands of homes through a large scale network. My day to day work consisted primarily of setting up resillient networks, replacing dated network equipment and lots and lots of troubleshooting with odd network problems.

Notably one time we could not figure out what was causing intermittent dropouts of service in a neighbourhood, only to discover that there was a very small hairline fracture in one of the shielding tubes in one of the main uplinks for the neighbourhood, which during the morning would catch some damp water, and then when 9AM hit and most people (who must have been working from home) were signing in to work, the increased heat would cause the water to somehow short something in the line, and immediately evaporate.

February 2023 - August 2023 (7 mos)

Technician for Gr8 Hotels

Here I primarily worked on maintaining hardware, these would be food preperation machines, be it fridges, icecream machines, coffee machines, deep fryers, grills, anything under the sun. First job I really had and gave me enough free time to work on my preferred interests.

March 2021 - January 2023 (2 yrs)

Skills

I do not have everything listed here, as that would make this a very large page.

Typescript

Typescript is a language I actually quite enjoy writing, though technically not really a programming language in the common sense, it is really nice to use, it has it’s quirks considering it is a bolted on type system to javascript, but for what I have used it for, it works and provides me with enough type safety to make me happy.

For this I usually either use Bun to run everything, as the performance improvements over the common NodeJS engine are honestly really impressive.

Python

For the first few years of my career I had quite a bitter taste in my mouth about Python, this was due to the poor performance and their odd package ecosystem management, especially that on Debian systems. Though over the years I have come to like Python a lot more, this is primarily thanks to Astrals UV system⁴, being able to manage multiple versions of docker and isolate packages easily, or just using uvx to run what I need at times.

Docker

Docker has got to be one of my most favorite pieces of software to use, being easily able to deploy any application or a stack of applications to have it “just work” feels lovely to me, no dependency issues, nothing I need to worry about. I consider myself quite well versed in using docker, both in fixing odd issues but also just maintaining it. I have a few docker images I publish myself on github or on my own git⁵ instance, though nothing particularly noteworthy, these are primarily just tools built for myself.

Linux

Linux, specifically Ubuntu has been my go to workhorse for operating systems. I quite dislike the adware and insane levels of bloat that Windows provides these days.

Why Ubuntu? Well, I like debian based systems, most of it comes down to my familiarity with it, I like the feature set that Ubuntu provides, I like the Gnome desktop environment despite the many criticisms people have, and I like the out of the box “it just works” system that Canonical has built here. The signed package drivers for NVIDIA cards are also a godsend, giving me secure boot and encrypted drives while still having the luxury of actually working NVIDIA drivers.

I do also have familiarity with plenty of other operating systems, for professional work due to workplace requirements I primarily use Debian, Almalinux (RHEL), Fedora, Alpine, and some basic familiarity with Arch based platforms.