Wiard Van Rij
Sr. SW Engineer, Observability at webfixit
Oudenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolWiard Van Rij is a Sr. Software Engineer focused on observability with nine years of experience, currently building monitoring and tracing solutions at Roku. He specializes in cloud-native, Kubernetes-first architectures for high-throughput, highly available systems and emphasizes turning metrics into meaningful SLOs and customer value. An active open-source contributor, he has made backend and DevOps contributions to the CNCF Thanos project, including automation of container workflows and test parallelization. He pairs that platform work with a practical security mindset—running a small consultancy and participating in HackerOne disclosures, including a public Slack MITM write-up—so observability meets threat-aware design. Comfortable leading teams and shaping architectural vision, he combines hands-on engineering with pragmatic communication to help organizations adopt DevOps and cloud-native practices.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Avans Hogeschool BredaApplicatie Beheerder, Applicatie Beheerder at Radius College
English, Dutch
Github Skills (12)
go10
devops10
microsoft-azure9
azure9
monitoring9
storage8
high-availability8
ci-cd8
storages8
kubernetes-pod7
kubernetes7
prometheus7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
thanos-io/thanos
Mar 2021 - Jun 2022
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 129 reviews, 31 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Wiard's contributions primarily focused on back-end development tasks, including adding logging information, refactoring Azure object storage, and making timezone configurations dynamic. They also demonstrated DevOps skills by implementing automated GitHub workflows for managing container SHAs and parallelizing end-to-end tests. Furthermore, the user contributed to the project by sorting flags alphabetically and cutting releases.
promqlobservabilityprometheusstoragegoogle-cloud-storage
wiardvanrij/thanos
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
Contributions:4 PRs, 95 pushes, 25 branches in 11 months
system-administrationpromqlprometheusstoragecloudnative
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