Vince van Daal

Head of Engineering · Making platforms that work, so you don't have to think about them.

I lead engineering teams and still keep my hands in the code and the infrastructure. Cloud platforms, Kubernetes, reliability, and CI/CD - building systems that stay rock solid and keeping the people who use them happy.

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Experience

  1. Head of Engineering

    Shoparize

    – Present 1 yr 2 mo Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    Lead an international engineering team while acting as principal DevOps engineer. Own how we deploy, monitor and recover, and keep the ingestion and search layers fast under real scale.

  2. Senior Cloud Engineer

    Quin

    – 1 yr 5 mo Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    Led the Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps teams. Cut monthly cloud cost by 50%, simplified Helm charts and Terraform, built AWS infrastructure as code, faster GitLab CI/CD, and Datadog monitoring. Also served as the company's Security Information Officer.

  3. Founder & DevOps / Cloud Consultant

    10nxt

    – 2 yr 10 mo Cuijk, the Netherlands

    My own consultancy - Platform-as-a-Service on GKE and AWS, Kubernetes optimisation, and cloud-migration strategy for enterprise clients.

    • Nederlandse Spoorwegen · Senior Site Reliability Engineer – · 10 mo · Utrecht, the Netherlands Raised observability across critical systems and set up SLIs, SLOs and error budgets for the national railway operator.
    • DHL Parcel Benelux · Senior Reliability Engineer – · 4 mo · Utrecht, the Netherlands Stood up comprehensive Datadog observability for a new reliability team.
    • Qfact · Cloud Engineer / Trainer – · 1 yr 2 mo · Ede, the Netherlands Reworked the GCP/Kubernetes setup to Infrastructure as Code and delivered cloud and Kubernetes training.

  4. Cloud Consultant

    Fullstaq

    – 2 yr 4 mo Lexmond, the Netherlands

    Cloud-native consultancy - designed and delivered cloud computing platforms, and ran internal and public knowledge sessions.

    • ASML · Senior GCP Cloud Engineer – · 1 yr 10 mo · Eindhoven, the Netherlands Built a GCP landing zone in Terraform, plus Python and Go automation for DNS and environment provisioning, CI/CD and Forseti security guardrails.
    • Quin · Senior Cloud Engineer – · 7 mo · Amsterdam, the Netherlands Migrated IaC from CloudFormation to Terraform, tuned GitLab runners, upgraded ArgoCD, and mentored teams on CI/CD.

  5. Senior DevOps Engineer

    DEITY

    – 1 yr 1 mo Eindhoven, the Netherlands

    Delivered a Kubernetes MVP on Google Cloud, ran 20+ Debian servers, built CI/CD pipelines, and introduced company-wide security practices.

  6. Linux Engineer

    Rootnet

    – 1 yr Nijmegen, the Netherlands

    Managed Debian servers and customer clusters, automated with Ansible, fixed DNS and stability issues, and ran on-call rotation.

  7. Engineering & Program Management

    Amazon

    – 2 yr 9 mo Dublin, Ireland

    Three roles across DNS, systems development and program management.

    • Technical Program Manager – · 7 mo Rolled out hardware to eight new regions, introduced Agile/Kanban, and coordinated projects across teams.
    • Systems Development Engineer – · 10 mo Ran 1,500+ RHEL servers, built CI/CD pipelines, and started the migration to AWS.
    • DNS Support Engineer – · 1 yr 6 mo Managed 300+ RHEL servers and critical DNS, tuned BIND and Quagga, wrote a Python IRC bot, and presented DNS internals to ~5,000 staff.

  8. Linux System Administrator & Support

    mijndomein.nl

    – 3 yr 2 mo Lelystad, the Netherlands

    Grew from hosting support into systems administration.

    • Junior Linux System Administrator – · 9 mo 2nd/3rd-line support, abuse handling and DDoS comms, Ansible/Kickstart provisioning, and NetApp storage.
    • Technical Support, Webhosting Plus – · 2 yr 6 mo 1st/2nd-line hosting support - DNS, email and website troubleshooting.

  9. Support Engineer (secondment)

    Unit4 / InWork B.V.

    – 1 yr 2 mo

    Secondment placements via InWork B.V. and Unit4 — both at the Nike EMEA campus in Hilversum.

    • Nike EMEA · Help-desk Team Captain – · 8 mo · Hilversum, the Netherlands Led a team of four, owned the escalation process, and handled second-line support for the campus.
    • Nike EMEA · Front-office First-line Support – · 7 mo · Hilversum, the Netherlands First-line help-desk support — call handling, incident logging in Clarify CRM, and in-person service counter.

  10. Network / Systems Intern & Assistant Teacher

    Gilde Opleidingen

    – 2 yr 4 mo Venray, the Netherlands

    Managed and migrated the school's student network and provided technical support. Also assisted teachers in the classroom and helped students with IT-related homework and hands-on exercises, covering subjects like network security and virus protection.

Volunteer

  1. Volunteer · IT & Web

    Swifterkamp, Archeologisch Openluchtmuseum

    – Present 4 yr 3 mo Lelystad, the Netherlands

    Run the WordPress site and act as the main IT contact for an archaeological open-air museum - plus first aid and the occasional hands-on day on site.

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