Martijn Van Den Boom

As a Technical Application Coordinator in Delft, Martijn is responsible for the management and further development of critical infrastructure components. He bridges the gap between complex system technology and application management, utilizing his expertise in scripting and automation to ensure the reliability of the environment. Achieved results:

• Modernization of legacy landscape: Successfully migrated legacy applications to a standardized IIS/PHP architecture on Windows Server 2022, making management simpler and future-proof.

• Improved security & compliance: Implemented server hardening, SSL certificate management, and SSO/SAML integrations (ADFS / SimpleSAMLphp), resulting in demonstrably higher security maturity.

• Higher availability of critical applications: Set up proactive monitoring and health checks, leading to incidents being identified preventatively rather than reactively.

• Reduced management load through automation: PowerShell automation for management and monitoring tasks reduced manual errors and increased the stability of production environments.

• Realized secure external access: Designed and implemented pfSense + OpenVPN infrastructure for controlled and secure external access.

As an Infrastructure Engineer at TMC, Martijn stays informed about current and future developments in technical specialisms in the job market and seeks suitable assignments. Achieved results:

• Research into rapid deployability in client environments: Quickly became substantively involved in various infrastructure issues.

• Knowledge deepening & market orientation: Actively delved into current and future infrastructure trends in preparation for complex assignments.

• CI/CD development and management: Designed and implemented Concourse CI/CD pipelines for installation, configuration, cleanup, backup/restore, and lifecycle management of platform components, eliminating manual management and making OTAP environments fully reproducible.

• Monitoring, Alerting & Logging: Set up and automated monitoring and log analysis with Splunk and Checkmk, including automated troubleshooting with PowerShell, Bash, Python, and Ansible, resulting in faster root cause analysis and proactive incident detection.

• Strengthened Security-by-design: Advised on network architecture, firewalling, and compliance requirements within enterprise and government environments. Knowledge sharing within CGI: Actively contributed to Cloud, Security & Infrastructure practices through sessions, substantive contributions, and sparring.