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.
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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

Training and Certifications

2023

Ribbon DWDM training

DWDM concepts, building packet optical transport networks, Ribbon productline

Ribbon

2020

Cisco Certified Network Associate

Routing & Switching (CCNA R&S)

Cisco

Education

2017 - 2022

Bachelor Toegepaste Informatica

University College Leuven Limburg

LEUVEN, BELGIUM

2015 - 2016

Bachelor Informatica

KU Leuven University

LEUVEN, BELGIUM

2009 - 2015

Economics - Modern Languages

Stedelijke Humaniora Dilsen

DILSEN, BELGIUM