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Erik van Brakel

Erik van Brakel

Staff DevOps Engineer @ Bynder | Remote
NL

Background

About

About

Highly experienced DevOps Engineer with nearly 20 years of professional experience spanning software development, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems architecture. Recognized for strategic thinking, empathetic leadership.
Skilled in driving architectural decisions and leading teams to success, with a proven track record of building and scaling teams for growth. Passionate about leveraging experience and strengths to grow teams from the startup phase to the next level of success. Thrives in positions where able to facilitate team development and unlock their full potential.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Staff DevOps Engineer, Bynder

    Jan, 2022 - Present

    Responsible for the architecture and design of the Bynder platform, including the observability strategy, development environment strategy, and CI/CD strategy.

    • Member of the architecture board responsible for defending the infrastructure related aspects.

    • Responsible for setting the strategy for scalable distributed systems design, multi-region failover scenarios and data governance.

    • Designed and implemented a comprehensive observability strategy utilized by all departments, resulting in significant yearly cost savings by replacing New Relic. Processing >100k data points per second.

    • Significantly decreased Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) due to observability improvements and training support staff to use the tooling effectively.

    • Redesigned the development environment strategy to be more resilient and similar to production, reducing provisioning time from 2 hours to approximately 5 minutes.

    • Transitioned the CI/CD strategy from Jenkins to Github Actions.

  • Senior DevOps Engineer, Bynder

    Jan, 2019 - Jan, 20223 years 1 month

    Responsible for the architecture and design of the Bynder platform, including the observability strategy, development environment strategy, and CI/CD strategy.

    • Built and managed scalable multi-regional infrastructure capable of serving 1000+ requests/second.

    • Tracked cloud expenses to make sure costs were kept under control while the amount of customers served doubled over time.

    • Led team growth from 2 engineers to result in division into two teams.

    • Transformed legacy infrastructure into a Terraform-based system, improving scalability, maintainability and governance.

    • Managed transition fromEC2 to Kubernetes for workloads, optimizing resource utilization and deployment efficiency.\n- Engaged in on-call rotations, ensuring high availability and reliability of infrastructure.

    • Leveraged software engineering experience to advise development teams on architecture and utilized DevOps expertise to advise on the optimal use of managed AWS services.