Duco van Amstel, PhD

Duco van Amstel, PhD, has a diverse range of work experience in various roles within the technology industry. Duco is currently a Senior Cloud and DevOps Consultant at Qarik Group, where they aid customers in modernizing their development practices and enhancing their developer experience. This involves designing enterprise-grade cloud platforms, providing coaching on best practices, and assisting with cloud migration planning.

Prior to their current role, Duco worked at Improbable. Duco served as a Technical Lead for Developer Experience, leading a team responsible for a CI platform that supported multiple platforms and tools. Duco mentored engineers and guided the team in implementing processes for planning and prioritization. Duco also held the position of Software Engineer at Improbable, working on various teams within the engineering organization and focusing on build automation and developer experience. Duco collaborated with stakeholders to design improved user development workflows.

Duco has also worked at Kalray as a PhD student and R&D engineer, specializing in data locality on many-core architectures. Duco was involved in the Kalray Compiler team, contributing to external optimization tools.

In addition, Duco worked as a Junior Research Scientist at Inria, where they gained research experience before pursuing their PhD. Duco also had a brief internship at Inria as an MSc. Intern, working on long-term fairness in multi-user BOINC projects.

Before their industry and research experience, Duco worked as a private student assistant, providing academic support. Duco also had internships at Kalray and INRIA Rhône-Alpes during their undergraduate studies, focusing on cryptography, network facilities, traffic flow models, and simulation algorithms.

Duco's earliest work experience dates back to a high school internship at Stork Fokker, where they worked on the development of GLARE material used in aircraft production.

Overall, Duco van Amstel's work experience showcases their expertise in cloud and DevOps consulting, CI platforms, software engineering, research, and interdisciplinary projects within the technology industry.

Duco van Amstel, PhD has a strong educational background in computer science. Duco obtained their Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Computer Science from Université Grenoble Alpes from 2013 to 2016. Prior to that, they earned their Master of Science (MSc) degree in Computer Science from École normale supérieure de Lyon from 2010 to 2012. Duco also holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Computer Science from the same institution, which they completed from 2009 to 2010.

Before entering university, Duco attended Lycée Louis-le-Grand from 2006 to 2009, where they completed the Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles program with a focus on MPSI - MP*. Prior to that, they received their High School diploma from Lycée Chabrillan in 2006, specializing in Science.

In addition to their formal education, Duco van Amstel has also obtained a certification as a Professional Cloud Architect from Google Cloud in January 2022.