Joachim Opdenakker
Network engineer
May 13, 1997
BIRTH
BELGIUM
NATIONALITY
DUTCH (NATIVE), ENGLISH (PROFESSIONAL), FRENCH
(INTERMEDIATE), GERMAN (INTERMEDIATE)
LANGUAGE
Joachim Opdenakker is a network engineer with experience in ISP and
DC environments. Specialisation includes peering, automation (infrastructure as
code), HLD, etc. In his current role, Joachim works as core network engineer at SURF
in the Netherlands where main tasks include 3rd level engineering & root cause
analysis,
service development (YANG-based), internet peering, routing policy, capacity
management
and DWDM optical transport network management.
Skills
NETWORKING
Routing protocols (BGP, IS-IS, OSPF,...)
MPLS, SR
EVPN
Network Automation
Network Programming
Yang Modelling
Juniper
Nokia
Cisco
Ribbon/ECI
DWDM
Peering and routing policy
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
Webservers (LAMP & LEMP)
Mailservers (Postfix stack)
Containerization (Docker & Kubernetes)
PROGRAMMING/Devops
Python
Bash
PHP
Java
Go
Git and Git-ops
Work Experience
August 2022 - present
Network Engineer Core, Internet Edge (IP & Optical)
SURF
UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS
March 2022 - June 2022
Intern - QA Infrastructure
Nokia ION R&D
ANTWERP, BELGIUM
Sept. 2020 - July 2021
Intern - Datacenter network engineering
Amazon Web Services
DUBLIN, IRELAND
October 2015 - March 2023
Working member
ULYSSIS vzw
LEUVEN, BELGIUM
August 2019 - August 2020
Vice President
ULYSSIS vzw
LEUVEN, BELGIUM
July 2018 - July 2020
JOBSTUDENT NETWORKS
BELNET
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
2014 - 2016
JOBSTUDENT
MAREC
KINROOI, BELGIUM
2015
JOBSTUDENT
Colruyt
MAASEIK, BELGIUM