I’m Marlin Cremers I am a network/DevOps engineer from Europe/The Netherlands. In my daily live I run two companies Cloudbear and CBWS.
Cloudbear offers DevOps as a service to an exciting set of customers and CBWS which is our internally built Infrastructure as a Service platform.
I’m passionate about networking technologies (BGP, EVPN VXLAN/MPLS, and more), infrastructure like OpenStack and containerization platforms like Kubernetes. These technologies are also widely used at both companies.
I’m a firm believer in the original intent of a distributed Internet with many smaller (autonomous) networks instead of the trend of centralization toward (a few) big players like big tech (Google, Meta, etc..) but also services like Cloudflare. Most of these services are also from the United States which has (via the CLOUD Act the right to force it’s companies to give insight into customers, even if they are from the European Union which is a violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
With a changing world it has also become more clear that as the European Union that we have to work on our independence and work together. To support these efforts I am also a member of Volt Europa.