Cloud Consultant at Xebia Cloud | Hobbyist Game Developer | MSc Game and Media Technology
🌐 Portfolio: simonkarman.nl | 📫 More about me: simonkarman.nl/about
I'm a passionate cloud consultant and advocate for modern development practices. I love taking the lead in architecture and development of new products and features, emphasizing modern workflows such as automated testing, pull requests, API-first design, event-driven architecture, and developer happiness.
I believe that developers should embrace modern ways of working: automated testing, boy scout principle, pull requests, API first, event driven architecture, developer happiness, and failing fast. I personally advocate for these practices whenever I can, and I'm always open to learn more.
What drives me:
- 🛠️ Developer ergonomics - Building and sharing command line tools, infrastructure libraries, and application libraries
- 🔄 CI/CD advocacy - Making pipelines the approval process itself
- 🎯 Continuous improvement - Challenging myself and sharing knowledge through communities
- 🎮 Game development - Been creating games since primary school!
Xebia Cloud (Oct 2021 - Present)
Cloud Consultant
- Helping organizations become cloud native using AWS and GCP
- Recent projects: Tikkie, Holland Casino, Kramp, ABN AMRO Clearing Bank, TuneIn, DPG Media, Felyx
☁️ Cloud & DevOps AWS, GCP, Terraform, Pulumi, GitHub Actions
💻 Languages Java, TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go, C++, C#
⚛️ Frontend React, Next.js, Vue, Nuxt, TailwindCSS
🔧 Backend Spring, Node.js, Serverless, Kafka
🗄️ Databases SQL, NoSQL
🔨 Tools Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Jira, Postman
- 🎲 Started with board games, moved to computer games
- ⛏️ Big fan of games with modding communities (TrackMania, Minecraft and Call of Duty 4)
- 🧮 Love mathematics and algorithmic problem-solving
- 🎯 Enjoy giving presentations about development best practices
- 🌐 Website: simonkarman.nl
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/simonkarman
- 📧 Feel free to reach out for collaborations or just to chat about tech!