Brando Meesdom

Senior System Engineer / DevOps Engineer @ Acheron Trading

Antwerp, Belgium

Senior System Engineer with over +15 years of experience specializing in Linux & open source solutions, Kubernetes & cloud-native, public cloud, automation and DevOps. I have extensive hands-on experience in designing and implementing production grade cloud and container platforms in regulated environments, both public cloud (AWS, Google, Azure) and on-premise, with a focus on security, high-availability and scalability. I have architected, designed and deployed infrastructure for various large IT projects in both an employee and freelance IT consultant position. Deeply versed in cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, FluxCD, Prometheus, Kyverno, Kustomize, Helm, Velero etc, with hands-on experience building secure, automated, and observable Kubernetes environments across Amazon AWS, Google Cloud & Microsoft Azure. Passionate about leveraging infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, and GitOps workflows to eliminate configuration drift, enhance reliability, and accelerate delivery.

Top roles

DevOps Engineer> 10 years

Cloud

Azure

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Miscellaneous

Google Cloud

Language

Native Dutch

Dutch

Native

English

Fluent

French

Average

Work experience

Since 2017

Senior System Engineer / DevOps Engineer @ Acheron Trading

01 February 2021 - 30 September 2025

Performed assessment, defined roadmap and implementation for reaching ISO27001 and DORA compliance. Designed, architecture, deployment and management of highly secure Kubernetes environments on Google Cloud (GKE) and AWS (EKS). Developed custom helm charts for deploying applications. Managed AWS and Google Cloud infrastructure.

Senior System Engineer / DevOps Engineer @ Radiomics NV

01 June 2020 - 31 December 2023

Designed, setup and maintain Kubernetes environments on Google Cloud Platform (GKE). Designed and setup NextCloud fileshare platform and GPU Cluster deployment for machine learning using Ansible and GitLab.

Senior System Engineer / DevOps Engineer @ Fluidda NV

01 January 2018 - 31 December 2023

Designed, architecture and deployment of Kubernetes GPU clusters (GKE) on Google Cloud Platform for clients deep learning activities.

Senior System Engineer / DevOps Engineer @ Gimme

01 September 2016 - 31 December 2023

Designed, setup and maintain virtualization platform for a containerized nodejs web-application using Ansible, Docker, Helm, MongoDB, Kubernetes, etc.

Senior System Engineer / DevOps Engineer @ Poetsbureau NV

01 August 2019 - 31 January 2023

Designed, setup and maintain Kubernetes container platform for a containerized Meteor web-application using Helm, MongoDB, etc.

Senior System Engineer / DevOps Engineer @ EURid

01 August 2017 - 30 September 2019

Advised and supported the current operations team with their projects. Redesigned ansible code base for Hashicorp Vault integration.

Education experience

Since 2006

Communication Sciences @ UA(Universiteit Antwerpen)

01 September 2006 - 01 June 2009

Bachelor's degree focused on communication strategies.

Brando Meesdom

Top roles

Cloud

Miscellaneous

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