Brando Meesdom

Owner

About

I design and build cloud-native platforms and backend infrastructures that are secure, automated, and highly observable.With 15+ years of experience in Linux systems engineering, automation, and DevOps, I help organizations build scalable and reliable platforms by applying modern cloud-native principles and automation driven delivery practices. I’ve implemented and operated solutions across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and on-premise environments — building unified, multi-cluster platforms that are secure, scalable, and compliant. My focus is on creating resilient infrastructure foundations where engineering teams can innovate with confidence. Core strengths: Cloud-Native Platforms · Kubernetes · GitOps · DevOps · Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Architecture · Observability & Reliability · Security & Compliance

Country

Belgium

City

Hove

Industry

Internet

Skill

Configuration Management, Terraform, Chef.io, Quality of Service (QoS), Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Veeam Backup & Replication, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Redis sentinel, Redis, Supermicro, Windows Server, Dell PowerEdge Servers, VMware vCenter, System Administration, VMWare ESXi, Juniper SRX, Postfix, PHP, CommVault, Nimble

Experience

Owner

Equastar

2022-12 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

Equastar is the company from which I organize my IT contracting work.

Partner

rootlease

2016-1 - Present · 10 yrs 9 mos

Antwerp Metropolitan Area

Managed Services and freelance IT consultancy for various clients such as Gimme NV, Poetsbureau NV (Glowi), BD myShopi, Eurid, Radiomics NV, Fluidda NV etc

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

CluePoints

2019-9 - 2020-11 · 1 yr 3 mos

Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve

Senior Linux System Engineer

EURid

2017-8 - 2019-9 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Diegem

Senior Devops Engineer

Playpass NV

2016-3 - 2017-7 · 1 yr 5 mos

Antwerp

Senior Linux System Engineer

21Net Belgium

2015-11 - 2016-3 · 5 mos

Senior Linux Systems Engineer

Nucleus

2014-2 - 2015-11 · 1 yr 10 mos

Systems Engineer

Kangaroot

2012-4 - 2014-2 · 1 yr 11 mos

Implement new projects (tailormade linux and cloud solutions, large migrations etc. ) Deliver continuous managed services for existing projects. Day to day operations and monitoring of our large server farm (+2000 servers)

Systems Engineer

Nucleus

2010-5 - 2012-4 · 2 yrs

Implement and provision custom made hosting and cloud solutions. Day to day support and operations managed & unmanaged customers. Day to day operations and monitoring large serverfarm (+2500 servers) and independent multiple 10GB fibre network.