About me
My name is Bert Peters and I am a twenty something computer science grad and currently employed at Channable leading the DevOps team, moonlighting in Rust, Python, Javascript, and whatever else comes my way.
In my spare time, I enjoy dabbling around with various programming related things, and create my own silly projects in Rust, machine learning, (Arch) Linux, systemd, and PHP, the last one of which I will defend forever. For most of these programming languages, I also maintain a few libraries.
This website is my private soapbox where I write about, well, anything, but generally Rust, Advent of Code, privacy, and math. If any of that sounds interesting, do read along.
Resume
Experience
Team lead DevOps
Lead the DevOps team, ensuring infrastructure reliability and scalability, keeping cost-effectiveness in mind. I also worked on security compliance and oversaw compliance audits and pentests. Oversaw the tripling of the size of the team over the course of three years and mentored several engineers to seniority.
DevOps engineer
Developed new cloud infrastructure with infrastructure, improved secret management processes, and improved overall security posture.
C++ engineer
Worked on a system to fight VAT fraud. Worked with C++, Rust, and React.
Lead developer
Overseeing several air travel search related websites. I led a small team of developers to develop an entirely renewed flight search engine, overseeing two complete renewals of websites, mentoring two student workers, instituting CI/CD, end to end testing.
Freelance developer
Work on the design of various air travel search related websites. Implemented HTML5/JS replacements for Flash technology, implemented redesign of website with flight search functionality using PHP and Apache, implemented version control, introduced infrastructure as code on AWS.
Open source
Package Maintainer & Tester
Maintaining various packages that have at one point or another piqued my interest, assisting in large rebuilds across the ecosystem, and moderating the Arch User Repository.
Library author
Published and maintained libraries for various ecosystems. More details on my projects page.
Skills
Programming Languages & Tools
Workflow
- Infrastructure as code
- Security by design
- Agile Development
- Highly available and scalable setups
Education
Leiden University
Thesis: Deep Mammography: Applying Deep Learning to Whole Mammogram Classification
Leiden University
Thesis: Utilizing a Tuple-Based Optimization Framework for Graph Algorithms
Interests
Apart from being a web developer, I enjoy my time being on on near the water, (teaching) windsurfing, sailing, or, when snow permits, snowboarding.
Indoors, I enjoy board games and playing guitar. I am also an enthusiastic tinkerer, and like fixing or improving things around the house, both with and without tech.
Third party software
While I enjoy making nice things myself, this website would not be possible without various pieces of open source software, worthy of a shout-out:
- Bootstrap licensed under the MIT license.
- Font Awesome licensed under the both the Open Font License and MIT license.
Disclaimer
This is my personal website, so all opinions expressed on this website are my own, and do not reflect those of my employers or otherwise. Don’t take my word as anything else than my word.
Privacy
This website does not record any personal data from you or include any analytics. It is however hosted on Github Pages, which means your IP-address and browser fingerprint will received by Github and be subject to the Github privacy policy.