Talk to sales Try for Free
Henk Batelaan

Henk Batelaan

Various IT functions

Followers of Henk Batelaan602 followers
location of Henk BatelaanTilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands

Connect with Henk Batelaan to Send Message

Connect

Connect with Henk Batelaan to Send Message

Connect

  • Timeline

  • About me

    Kubernetes platform engineer

  • Education

    • Atlas College

      1991 - 1997
      VWO degree Foreign Languages and Literatures, General

    • De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied Sciences

      1997 - 1998
      Information Technology (No degree)

  • Experience

    • Pdf Diensten & Systemen

      Feb 1999 - Sept 2006
      Various IT functions

      Start of my IT career at this Mac service provider. I have held various IT functions and literally stood at the cradle of their Mac OS X services, developing and delivering fully catered Mac OS X training sessions for end users and system administrators.

    • Expansion b.v.

      Sept 2006 - Dec 2006
      IT Technician

      Service provider of archiving software for the financial market. Pure Windows environments at this employer and its clients and virtualized to a great extent.

    • Guide Automatisering

      Dec 2006 - Nov 2007
      System Engineer

      At the time, a leading service provider in the printing industry and office automation. All-in service contracts and service level agreements with large customers as the Meertens Institute, TUI Netherlands and the University of Applied Sciences Leiden. Responsible for the management of cross-platform environments consisting of Windows, Linux and OS X systems.

    • Maxperts

      Nov 2007 - Mar 2013
      Apple Support Professional

      Back to my roots at this OS X service provider where the main business concentrates on OS X installation, support and maintenance. We were able to attract some large projects, enabling me to work as a third line Systems Administrator at G-Star RAW: a big commercial organization with over 1100 employees world wide.

    • Devoteam Nederland

      Mar 2013 - Sept 2014
      System Engineer

      Leading Microsoft and Apple partner for SME and Enterprise segments. Solution Expert for Microsoft, Linux and Apple systems, virtualized or not. Management of iOS mobile devices through various MDM solutions. Management and projects for highly variable customer base (ING, OVG Real Estate, Tommy Hilfiger) with ditto IT environments.

    • Capriole Coffee Service

      Sept 2014 - Nov 2016
      IT System Administrator

      Socially driven and a socially responsible family business in the coffee industry. Overall responsibility for the entire IT environment consisting of Windows, Linux and OS X systems, spread over three sites in the Netherlands and Belgium. Currently working on Linux certifications.

    • Bitfactory

      Dec 2017 - May 2019
      Linux System Administrator

      At Bitfactory I've build up, maintained and constantly improved the managed hosting section of this great company. A mix of Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS boxes with all sorts of different technology and software made this a versatile and exciting job.

    • Sue B.V.

      Jun 2019 - Jan 2021
      Linux Engineer

      Open Source, Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS, Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, Rook/Ceph, Traefik... the list goes on and on with all awesome technologies I’ve been working with at Sue and its customers.

    • Greater

      Feb 2021 - Jul 2024
      DevOps Engineer

      DevOps, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, automation, CI/CD - the goal at Greater is clearly to automate all the things. I love it!

    • Kamer van Koophandel

      Aug 2024 - now
      Kubernetes platform engineer

      We operate entirely in a Kubernetes environment and get to work with all the technologies that make any engineer's heart skip a beat or two. What else is there to want?

  • Licenses & Certifications