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

Channable

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.

April 2021 - Present

DevOps engineer

Channable

Developed new cloud infrastructure with infrastructure, improved secret management processes, and improved overall security posture.

September 2020 - March 2021

C++ engineer

summitto

Worked on a system to fight VAT fraud. Worked with C++, Rust, and React.

November 2019 - July 2020

Lead developer

Voskamp Internet Holding

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.

November 2015 - February 2019

Freelance developer

Voskamp Internet Holding

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.

February 2012 - October 2015

Open source

Package Maintainer & Tester

Arch Linux

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

Various ecosystems

Published and maintained libraries for various ecosystems. More details on my projects page.


Skills

Programming Languages & Tools

  • Rust
  • Python
  • Linux
  • Google Cloud
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • Consul
  • Vault
  • Nomad

Workflow

  • Infrastructure as code
  • Security by design
  • Agile Development
  • Highly available and scalable setups

Education

Leiden University

Master of Science
Computer science

Thesis: Deep Mammography: Applying Deep Learning to Whole Mammogram Classification

February 2017 - August 2019

Leiden University

Bachelor of Science
Informatics

Thesis: Utilizing a Tuple-Based Optimization Framework for Graph Algorithms

September 2011 - January 2017

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:

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.