Currently specializing and interested in DevOps / Continuous Operations & Delivery / Cloud Engineering. One of the goals is to implement scalable systems that eliminate the need for planned downtime, in such a way that both software as hardware components are able to change or modify without any disruption in environments starting from development till production, hence a high level of automation is required. Another goal is to tear down the classic 'brick wall' between development and operations by integrating the DevOps methodology and emphasizing both development as operations tasks to make a smooth transition between the (short to mid term) project phase as (long term) maintenance phase. To achieve these goals, I'm specializing in the implementation of the following services and tools: - Amazon Web Services, for example: * EC2 * CloudFormation * Route 53 * CloudFront / S3 * ElastiCache * Elasticsearch Service * OpsWorks * RDS * CloudWatch * SES * SQS - Provisioning tools, for example: * Puppet * Chef * OpsWorks (AWS) - Development tools, for example: * Maven * Jenkins / Hudson * Nexus * SonarQube * Git * Packer - Testing tools, for example: * Selenium * FitNesse * BrowserStack - Deployment tools, for example: * Puppet * CloudFormation (AWS) * Ant - Logging / monitoring tools, for example: * Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana (ELK stack) * CloudWatch (AWS) * Monit * ManageEngine Applications Manager - Programming languagues, for example: * Java * Bash * Python * Groovy * Ruby - Operating Systems, for example: * Amazon Linux * RedHat Enterprise Linux * Oracle Linux * Ubuntu Linux * Debian Linux * AIX

Senior Consultant @ From January 2015 to Present (1 year) Consultant @ From September 2013 to January 2015 (1 year 5 months) Young Talent @ From August 2012 to August 2013 (1 year 1 month) Software Engineer @ From June 2010 to August 2013 (3 years 3 months) Internship System Development @ From January 2010 to July 2010 (7 months) Breda Area, NetherlandsCo owner @ From May 2008 to January 2010 (1 year 9 months) Internship Infrastructure Services @ From June 2006 to January 2007 (8 months)

ing. @ Avans Hogeschool Breda From 2007 to 2010 Maikel Mertens is skilled in: Tomcat, Maven, JBoss Application Server, Java Enterprise Edition, Java, Spring, JavaScript, MySQL, Unix, Weblogic, AJAX, Web Applications, SOAP, PHP, Windows Server