Aug 2015 - Oct 2018 (3 years 2 months)
Haarlem Area, Netherlands
THE standard of sport timing equipment and data. From it's humble beginning in 1982 into the absolute dominant player on the market, providing a wide range of performance information for almost any sport with a time element today.
Helping this company modernize and maintain their office and datacenter infrastructure was a incredible journey where I enjoyed many new insights into the sports industry, and hard/software design for it.
Gained many friends while working (and after) and got motivated enough to run my first half-marathon
Introduced infrastructure as code (SaltStack)
- Introduced new monitoring system (Icinga2)
- Maintained Atlassian Stack (Stash, Jira, Confluence etc.)
- Introduced IP management system (PHPipam/Netbox)
- Maintained integrity of data and knowledge transfer through several management replacements
- Help and teach junior developers gain knowledge about systems, networks, and CI tools
- Integrate Active Directory across many of these systems
- Under hardcore time and resource constraints, moved production datacenter with minimal downtime
- Create documentation for all this for future engineers to use