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Hi, I am Remko

Remko Lodder

Chapter Lead Virtualisation and Storage at ING N.V.

I am an exprienced and enthusiastic Coach/Nerd. I have many years of experience in the Unix world, both as developer, contributor as Engineer. I am highly exprienced with networking environments and well educated on security work. I love Open Source software and use my knowledge to train, assist and coach others. I am also a family guy and like to spend time with my family.

Coaching
Training
Networking
Security
Unix
Cloud
Programming
Projectlead
Virtualisation

Skills

Experiences

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Chapter Lead
ING Bank NV

Sept 2021 - Present, Rotterdam/Amsterdam, Nederland

ING is one of the largest banks in the Netherlands and an absolute leader on IT enabled banking.

Responsibilities:
  • Coaching of a group of virtualisation experts
  • HR Responsible for a group of virtualisation experts
Sue B.V.

Oct 2006 - Aug 2021, Geldermalsen, Nederland

Sue is one of the largest Cloud Native Service organisations in the Netherlands. Sue provides Consultancy, Professional Services and Managed Services.

Technical Field Manager

Jul 2019 - Aug 2021

  • Coaching of 35 consultants, assisting them with training selection, job matching, writing of an individual development plan, job interview training, resume improvements and more
  • Creator of a technical plan for a new offering from the company (new project based work method)
  • Technical Projectleader for various internal projects.
Linux and Network/Security Administrator at Gemeente Woerden, Woerden

Oct 2017 - Jun 2019

  • Administration of the Unix environment, writing various scripts, parsers, automated deployment via Puppet/Gitlab
  • Deploy SSO setup with Keycloak
  • Migration of Zarafa to Kopano, writing of support scripts
  • Network migration from old Actatel network to new Alcatel network, implementation of VMWare hypervisors and Huawei/HDS storage
Linux and Network/Security Engineer at Sue B.V., Geldermalsen

Sept 2016 - Sept 2017

  • Updated the Juniper Switching platform, research and implementation of Rspamd
Networking administrator at Wintershall, Rijswijk

May 2016 - Sept 2016

  • Improved networks offshore with limited capabilities for 24 offshore locations and 2 onshore locations.
  • Maintain and update the offshore MikroTik Wifi AP’s.
Senior Network and Security Engineer / Teamlead Connectivity at Ziggo, Utrecht / Rijswijk

May 2014 - Apr 2016

  • Project work, troubleshooting, large changes to Juniper SRX Firewalls
  • Teamlead for the Connectivity team, planning and supporting of team members
  • Company merger, design and implementation of internal firewall strategy, maintenance of F5 loadbalancers
  • Provide hands for a large webmail platform based on Dovecot and Open-Xchange
Senior Network and Security Engineer at Snow B.V., Geldermalsen

Jan 2014 - May 2014

  • Firewall migration, design of virtualization network, authored a Linux Magazine Article; Free or Open?
  • Large technical contributions to the FreeBSD Project.
Senior Network and Security Engineer at Ziggo, The Hague / Utrecht / Rijswijk

Nov 2010 - Dec 2013

  • Project team Lead, supervising three people, responsible for the migration of 1000+ routers and switches
Senior Network and Security Engineer at KPN/Getronics, Amsterdam / Rotterdam

Nov 2009 - Oct 2010

  • Design and migration of large Dutch Airline, creation of standardized documentation and network infrastructure design.
  • Troubleshooting issues on firewalls and proxies (Bluecoat). Assisted with troubleshooting a large Dutch insurance company.
Senior Network and Security Engineer at KPN, Rotterdam / Amsterdam

Jan 2009 - Oct 2009

  • Migration of datacenter
Senior Network and Security Engineer at KPN, Capelle a/d IJssel

Jun 2008 - Dec 2008

  • Firewall migrations from Checkpoint to Juniper and Fortigate
  • Design and implementation of monitoring system (NMIS) and setup of Rancid
Security and Unix Engineer at a financial institute, The Hague

Oct 2006 - May 2008

  • Maintenance of Unix, FreeBSD, Cisco and Checkpoint systems
  • Design and build of new datacenter network.
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3
Co Founder / Technical Lead
JR Webscripting en Hosting

2004 - May 2020, Barendrecht / Rotterdam, Netherlands

Co founder of this company that grew from our project into a serious company.

Responsibilities:
  • Private company co founder and owner, specialized hosting with specific requirements and attention.
Firewall & Security Engineer
ING Bank N.V.

Oct 2001 - Sept 2006, Rotterdam, Netherlands

ING is one of the largest Dutch banks, focussing on worldwide delivery of financial services

Responsibilities:
  • Maintenance of Sun Solaris, Checkpoint, RealSecure IDS and Cisco routers and switches.
  • Various projects, writing of scripts and logparsers, implementation and reviewing of security policies.
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Projects

FreeBSD
Contributor / Committer / Developer / Security Team 2003 - 2019

Opensource BSD Project, used by many large coorporations like Juniper and Netflix.

contributor freebsd opensource unix
Star
DSINet.org
Editor 2001 - 2005

Dutch based security reporting group.

contributor security news
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Mostly Harmess
Project Lead 2001 - 2004

Dutch united hacker group to educate young people in taking the right path in computer science.

contributor security education hacking
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Recent Posts

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Fetch Flexweb images for backup purposes in Python

Introduction Since some time our kids to to daycare, and the occassionaly place photos on the secured environment. It’s a bit problematic to download the photos. On the phone it feels a bit weird how that works and online you can only fetch one photo at at time. But since they are there for a longer period already, that would mean manually download a lot of photos. So, I decided to write a little python wrapper.

October 17, 2021 Read
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Leaving Snow / Sue.

Leaving After 15 precious years with many ups and some downs (personally) I sadly decided to leave the mothership of Sue and be part of another company. I will announce which company later on, I need to make it a bit exciting to read right? ;-) Leaving after so many years is a difficult thing, or at least for me. Sue has been part for 3/4 of my professional life, 2 out of my 3 kids where born during my time at Sue.

August 1, 2021 Read
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Recertified for CCNP - ENCOR

CCNP - ENCOR ‘Recently’ Cisco changed the CCNP track quite a lot. In the past it was composed of vertical colums so to say with Routing, Switching and Tshoot as seperated colums. This had the advantage that you could focus on pure Routing and pure Switching and no need to worry about bringing many different knowledge into the exam. To recertify you needed to pass one of the colums to pass and extend the certification for another three years.

June 3, 2021 Read