Rik van den Berg is my name. I'm Dutch and my last name translates into "from the mountain". Hence this blog's name.
I work as a Tech Lead for GeoDin, a Fugro Company, but this blog, its content and opinions are my own. On a day to day basis, I work on developing, designing and deploying applications in different landscapes, assisting the team(s) in their development process and helping the business decide on the next direction. I've mostly worked with Microsoft technology and their cloud Azure. But with the recent "mulit-cloud" trends I also have experience in developing and integrating applications with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
This triggered a wish in me to have my personal space where I can write about all situations I run into, mostly technical and related to .NET.
Background
I have a Bachelor degree in Computer Science (BSc) and graduated back in 2013. During my last two years of study I worked as a part-time .NET Developer. After graduation I continued working as a .NET developer at Centric in the Netherlands for 5 years. While at Centric, I was part of Competence Center to promote and facility improvement of Code Quality and also delivered tools such as SonarQube across the company.
With the growing development in the cloud, I have then decided to pursued more projects working with Microsoft Azure. And over the past 5 years I've grown to become a DevOps Engineer. This gave me the oppertunity to work with clients to develop, design and deploy their applications to the Azure cloud. More recently, I've had the oppertunity to work on a cloud migration from Azure to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This gave me the technical skills sets to become a jack of all trades for cloud development and led me being a great all-rounder for projects using either of the two providers.
Furthermore, after building such in-depth work experience for the past 10 years, I've complemented my resume with a Master's degree in Data Science from the University of Amsterdam. I achieved this on a part time basis during a two-year period.
Nowaydays, given my proven track records, I'm extremely excited to have now accepted a position as Tech Lead at GeoDin, where I support the business and guide the DevOps team into transformation of the application landscape into a new modern age.
Contact
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