Dennis Vriend

Dennis Vriend has a diverse work experience in the field of cloud architecture and software engineering. Dennis currently works at Novamedia / Postcode Lotteries and Trivento as a Cloud Architecture Consultant and Senior Solutions Architect respectively. In the past, Dennis has also worked at Flow Traders as a Cloud Architecture Consultant and at Mendix as a Cloud Native Software Engineer. Dennis has gained extensive knowledge and expertise in Scala programming as a Certified Trainer for the Fast Track To Scala course at Lightbend, Inc. Additionally, Dennis has worked at Binx.io as a Cloud Consultant and at Xebia as a Senior Software Consultant. Dennis has also had consulting roles at Booking.com, Fontem Ventures B.V., and Knab, where they contributed to cloud-related projects.

Dennis Vriend completed their education with the following chronological history:

1. From 2020 to 2022, Dennis pursued a Master of Science (MS) degree in Software Engineering from the Open Universiteit.

2. Between 2002 and 2006, Dennis obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

3. Dennis began their educational journey at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences from 1998 to 2002, where they studied Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering and earned another Bachelor's degree.

Additionally, Dennis has acquired various certifications throughout their career. These certifications include "Scientific Data Processing" and "Baseline: Data, ML, AI" from Qwiklabs in June 2019 and May 2019, respectively. Dennis also completed several courses on Coursera, such as "Building Resilient Streaming Systems on Google Cloud Platform," "Data Engineering on Google Cloud Platform Specialization," "Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals," "Leveraging Unstructured Data with Cloud Dataproc on Google Cloud Platform," "Preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Exam," "Serverless Data Analysis with Google BigQuery and Cloud Dataflow," and "Serverless Machine Learning with Tensorflow on Google Cloud Platform" in May 2019.

Moreover, they obtained certifications like "CI With Azure WebApps and Azure DevOps (VSTS)" from A Cloud Guru in April 2019, "GCP Networking in the Google Cloud" and "GCP Security and Identity Fundamentals" from Qwiklabs in April 2019, "Docker Fundamentals" from A Cloud Guru in March 2019, "GCP Baseline Infrastructure" and "GCP Essentials" from Qwiklabs in March 2019, "Google Certified Cloud Engineer" from A Cloud Guru in March 2019, "Introduction to Google Cloud Platform" from A Cloud Guru in March 2019, and "Kubernetes Deep Dive" from A Cloud Guru in March 2019.

Before all these certifications, Dennis completed courses on Coursera, including "Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Containers and Services" and "Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation" in October 2018.

These educational achievements and certifications highlight Dennis Vriend's commitment to continuous learning and acquiring knowledge in the fields of software engineering, data processing, machine learning, cloud platforms, and other related areas.