About

My name is Ronald, I'm an development engineer living in the Netherlands. In the daytime I develop PCB's and write the firm- and software that runs on them. At night my interests range from 3d printing to gaming from reading to weightlifting.

Latest blog posts

05 Nov 2024 . Hosting static sites with Minio and Nginx on k8s

I’ve traditionally hosted this site and other services on hardware set up at home, either in my living room or tucked away in a utility closet. This setup meant I’d simply store the files in /var/www/ and leave it at that. Recently, though, I’ve gotten deeper into homelabbing—I installed Talos OS on several mini-PCs and have been experimenting with them ever since. This inspired me to overhaul the way I host this and other websites.

28 Jan 2019 . Machine learning using Keras in R

Archive

Timeline

August 2023 - Current

ASML
Lead DevSecOps Engineer

Designing and Maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Driving cloud cost reduction by improving CI/CD pipeline architecture

Managing stakeholders and requirements in a high-pressure environment

March 2021 - August 2023

ASML
Design engineer

Designing and maintaining software for hard real-time systems

Designed, built and deployed Python tooling for the Metrology department

Developed CI/CD pipelines for internal projects

Won internal innovation challenge

August 2020 - January 2021

ASML
Software engineering internship

Improving system performance by offloading certain tasks to dockerized systems

January 2017 - August 2020

Solid optics
Development Engineer

Development of Hard-, Soft- and Firmware for testing fiber-optic equipment

September 2015 - August 2023

Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Computer Engineering

Enrolled in classes on Robotics, PLC, Embedded programming.

Minor in big data

Contact

Drop me an email if you’ve got interesting projects, need advice or are planning to send a manned rocket to mars.

[email protected]