Summary
Rogier Dikkes is a platform-focused infrastructure engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating scalable cloud, HPC and big data environments across Europe and Asia. He combines hands-on expertise in Mesos, Kubernetes migrations, Docker, Ceph and orchestration tooling with automation-first practices using Ansible, Python and Go. Rogier has led platform and DevSecOps initiatives at companies like Vandebron and Ahold Delhaize and currently develops platform solutions at The Good Cloud a.i while consulting part-time for Flo Energy. He thrives in fast-moving, collaborative settings and frequently bridges engineering, stakeholders and customers to turn complex distributed systems into reliable products. A longtime Linux tinkerer since 2012, he brings deep operational knowledge of legacy and modern infra components (Zookeeper, Consul, Marathon, Vault, etcd) that helps avoid common scaling pitfalls. Outside work he signs off as “living the dream in /dev/null,” hinting at a pragmatic, systems-first mindset.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, Dutch