🧃Maarten Van Der Slik

Experience

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  Promax

  Sept 2013 - Mar 2014

  Internship System Administration department & System Projects department

  Activities: monitoring client environments to prevent potential failures and providing support for IT environments for customers. Fixing Windows (Server) issues.Besides these activities, Maarten worked for the System Projects department as a project engineer. He set up a new IT environment for an SME customer, especially the Remote Desktop farm and the thin clients setup.

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  Wartburg College Rotterdam/Dordrecht

  Jan 2015 - Jun 2015

  Internship supportdesk

  Wartburg College is a secondary school that consists of four big locations.Activities: Maarten developed a self-service support application in PowerShell and provided support for end-users.

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  Intel

  Jun 2015 - Sept 2015

  Promoter

  Maarten promoted new Intel concepts (in particular 2in1 devices) and trained salesmen on the floor at several stores in The Netherlands.

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  Isolectra

  Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

  Interim Administrative Assistant

  Activities: Maarten was an interim administrative assistant. Responsibilities included: filing, reaching out to suppliers, and maintaining data in the ERP system.

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  B-K IT Solutions

  Sept 2016 - Feb 2017

  2nd/3rd line support engineer

  Solving network and server issues for the managed services clients. Maarten tried to improve the servicedesk processes as well using his ITIL expertise.

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  Winvision

  Sept 2017 - Jan 2018

  Internship: improving asset and configuration management processes

  During this internship, Maarten chose to focus on optimizing Winvision Managements' business processes. While keeping himself developing in technology subjects, Maarten likes to be capable to improve corporate performance as well.At Winvision Managed Services, he investigated the current processes concerning Service Asset & Configuration Management. He wrote a report which advised to improve the current process and processes close to SACM (asset management underpins almost every aspect of service management). Quite a challenging project! Show less

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  Centric

  Feb 2019 - Jun 2019

  Internship: designing cloud native architecture

  This research was about finding container runtimes and orchestration tools that match the requirements of the Centric departments that are responsible for managing (the infrastructure of) the concerning applications.

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  Netherlands Forensic Institute NFI

  Jan 2020 - Jan 2020

  Research project about APFS

  Maarten researched the internals of the Apple File System (APFS) checkpoint mechanism on bit-level and found some interesting behavior.

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  PwC

  Jun 2021 - Jun 2021

  Research project about Kubernetes Admission Controllers

  Graduation project about alternative admission controllers for the deprecated PodSecurityPolicies feature (Policy as Code)

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  PwC

  Sept 2021 - Mar 2024

  Technical Cybersecurity Consultant (Blue Teaming)

  Technical consulting in the field of Blue Teaming technologies (system/cloud configuration hardening, security monitoring)

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  Public sector

  Apr 2024 - now

  DevOps/platform engineer

  Developing and maintaining code for container platforms and underlying operating systems, while enhancing cybersecurity resilience.