Wouter van Eekelen

Wouter van Eekelen 27 years old Lived in 3 different continents Fluent in English and Dutch Citizen of The Netherlands Front-end & Back-end Developer, Sysadmin. T: - E:- ㅡ Summary With 12 years of self-taught experience, I have encountered and familiarized myself with countless programming languages, tools, and frameworks. Able to quickly sort out any issue with a few Google queries and reading of the documentation, I excel at projects that combine server management together with back-end and front-end development. ㅡ Technologies Back-end programming:​ PHP, Bash, MySQL, NoSQL, JSON, XML, Yii, Symfony, Git, Node.js, Laravel, Composer, Git, and Magento. Front-end programming: ​HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Mustache, AJAX, Responsive design, SASS, and Bootstrap. Network administration: ​BGP​, ​Brocade, Cisco, SNMP, sFlow, VLANs. System administration: ​AWS, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Cloudflare, Munin, Apache, NGINX, Redis, Elasticsearch, PHP-FPM, Nagios, Opsview, Xen, SSH, KVM, libvirt, OpenVZ, Memcache, and VMware. Travel: ​GDS, Business and First class travel, Hotel loyalty programs, Airline frequent flyer programs, hidden cities, and fuel dumps. ㅡ Experience Server Hunter / ​Founder & CEO AUGUST 2018 - PRESENT, Katwijk, ZH, The Netherlands Server Hunter is a virtual and dedicated server comparison platform, aggregating the pricing and specifications of hundreds of server providers using their APIs, custom scrapers and data feeds. As the Founder & CEO, my responsibilities include back-end and front-end programming, sysadmin, dealing with providers and indexing and normalizing the data from thousands of formats into a single Elasticsearch cluster to allow users to easily filter through. Flightfox /​ Flight Expert Manager NOVEMBER 2015 - PRESENT, Boulder, CO, United States Flightfox is a travel platform, unlocking substantial savings for flights and hotels using advanced tricks such as hidden cities, fuel dumps and miles arbitraging. As the Flight Expert Manager, my responsibilities include managing 35 flight experts, making sure we find the lowest price possible and keeping customer service at a high level, as well as some programming and server maintenance when necessary. ㅡ Experience Limelight Networks / ​Network Automation Engineer AUGUST 2014 - SEPTEMBER 2015, Tempe, AZ, United States Limelight Networks is a content delivery network, responsible for delivering video and software updates to millions of users for customers like Netflix, Microsoft, and Apple. As a Network Automation Engineer, my responsibilities included writing tools to manage, monitor and improve the networking, including indexing 2.4 TB of daily sFlow data in an Elasticsearch cluster and turn this into useful reports. Sprongo / ​Senior Developer JUNE 2013 - AUGUST 2014, San Francisco, CA, United States Sprongo is a video analysis platform for sports, allowing Olympic athletes and coaches to quickly review and improve their technique and shave precious seconds off their times. As the Senior Developer, I was responsible for developing the entire subscription platform and was able to achieve savings of 93% of the IT budget by using AWS services like Glacier and RDS. Snel IS, Qweb subsidiary​ / Technical Manager NOVEMBER 2010 - MARCH 2013, Schiedam, ZH, The Netherlands Snel IS is a self-managed hosting provider, specializing in high performance dedicated servers with instant setup. As the Technical Manager, I was responsible for every technical aspect of the business, including creating the entire backend infrastructure to manage hundreds of servers and switches with a custom control panel. Just Cause 2 MP / ​Server admin &​ ​Web developer APRIL 2010 - PRESENT, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia Just Cause 2 MP is a free community-made multiplayer mod for the popular game Just Cause 2. I was responsible for creating and maintaining the website as well as the server infrastructure. Notable projects were the anti-piracy efforts using PKI certificates and having a single server deal with 1,800 concurrent players in the same world. Qweb / ​Technical Engineer APRIL 2010 - NOVEMBER 2010, Schiedam, ZH, The Netherlands Qweb is a fully managed hosting provider, aimed at critical business applications with high uptime requirements. As a Technical Engineer, I was responsible for the reliability, configuration, maintenance and security of the servers, as well as the development of internal tools to automate tedious tasks. This position also involved making and receiving phone calls from customers on a daily basis. ㅡ Experience GamePoint / ​Programmer OCTOBER 2008 - DECEMBER 2008, The Hague, ZH, The Netherlands GamePoint operates a real-time multiplayer social gaming network aimed at bringing casual games like Bingo and Solitaire to the internet. As a programmer, I was responsible for introducing a translation platform that allowed the company to expand from being solely in Dutch to being available in 11 different languages and markets. serverFFS / ​Founder & CEO JANUARY 2008 - APRIL 2010, Katwijk, ZH, The Netherlands serverFFS was a gameserver hosting company which I launched and operated. As the company grew, I had the opportunity to leave GamePoint and focus on it full time. Faced with insecure and unstable third-party control panels, I ended up writing a custom control panel from scratch, which was the main selling point of the company. Dutch Pancakes​ / Programmer AUGUST 2007 - OCTOBER 2008, Aalsmeer, NH, The Netherlands Dutch Pancakes is a web development company. As a programmer, I was responsible for developing many small and big websites for customers. The biggest project was for Fletcher Hotels, which involved writing a custom CMS and booking system for over 85 different hotels spread around the Benelux area. Preserver / ​Programmer JUNE 2007 - AUGUST 2007, Hook of Holland, ZH, The Netherlands Preserver was my first job at the age of 16. Even though it was only for a few months, it propelled my interest and knowledge in programming, allowing me to get a more serious and stable job a few months later.