Edwin de Jong

Horten, Norway · Hybrid

• Modernizing CI/CD across Azure DevOps and writing the reference pipeline definitions other teams now build, test and deploy from.
• Leading large Azure infrastructure migrations with minimal disruption to production.
• Running Azure DevOps governance: branch policies, service connections, variable groups and repository conventions.
• Writing Terraform and Ansible for Azure, so provisioning across landing zones and subscriptions is reproducible and auditable.
• Designing the platform on AKS, Azure Container Registry and Azure Monitor.
• Coaching engineers on using LLMs day to day, including GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and AGENTS.md-driven workflows.

Azure · Azure DevOps · AKS · Terraform · Ansible · Azure Monitor · ACR · Prometheus · Grafana

Oslo, Norway · Hybrid

• Led a migration of infrastructure between Azure Intune environments with minimal downtime.
• Wrote and maintained the Terraform for Azure, replacing manual provisioning.
• Built hardened CIS images with Ansible as part of the Azure security baseline.
• Helped design Landing Zones to strengthen security and compliance.
• Negotiated vendor contracts that cut costs significantly without lowering service quality.
• Took part in the 24/7 on-call rotation for incident response.

Azure · Terraform · Ansible · Kubernetes · ArgoCD · Kafka · GitHub Actions · Cloudflare · Prometheus · Grafana

Oslo, Norway

• Took over all technical operations as the company's only technical lead.
• Led the rewrite of an outdated PHP version, improving both performance and security.
• Designed, built and ran the high-traffic event platform, including live chat, voting and speaker management.
• Hired, trained and mentored a new technical team.
• Kept a large legacy application running while modernizing its key components.

PHP · Laravel · AWS · Kubernetes · MySQL

Open-source MMORPG · ugaris.com · Live · Steam release coming soon

• Forked and modernized the open-source Mercenaries of Astonia C codebase into a live, free-to-play MMORPG, and have run it in production since 2014.
• Migrated every raw memory-dump BLOB of quest, NPC and character state into normalized relational tables over several months, with reversible migrations and no player data lost.
• Rebuilt the data layer around connection pooling, ProxySQL, a three-node replicated MariaDB cluster with Flyway migrations, and Valkey as the message bus between game areas.
• Moved from bare metal to Docker, then to Ansible-managed VMs with separate dev, pre-production and production environments and full CI/CD.
• Replaced the SDL client and Electron launcher with a single Godot client: a rebuilt interface, zoom and lighting, a rendered minimap and world map, voiced NPCs, and Steam ticket sign-in so passwords never go over the wire.
• Built a Rust gateway that keeps one player connection open and routes logins and area transfers between server instances.
• Rewrote the web stack as a Rust API with a SvelteKit frontend, after earlier versions in Go and Astro.
• Automated Steam releases: new client and resource builds go to an internal-testing branch automatically, and get promoted to the public branch after approval.

C · C++ · Godot · Rust · SvelteKit · Python · MariaDB · Flyway · Valkey · ProxySQL · Docker · Ansible · Steamworks