This is me, Rob!

Rob de Wit - Liezenga

Utrecht, the Netherlands

About me

I'm an engineer who likes working with tech and data to help people solve problems. I firmly believe that tech shouldn't be self-serving. What I like doing best is connecting with people, sharing knowledge, and discovering how data can help improve life and work.

I have an educational background in business informatics and hands-on experience in various data-related roles, from analyst, to developer advocate, to data platform engineer.

Friends and colleagues describe me as ambitious, decisive, and result-oriented. The question I like to ask most is "Why?" and the answer I would rather not hear is "Because we have always done it this way."

The thing I value most in my work is ownership. I love being able to point at something and say: "I made that." My dream job is one where I can combine deep technical work with a more people-focused role.

Stack: Python, SQL, Git, Terraform, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, Airflow, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Bash, and everything necessary to create this website

Now

Open to work

I work as a freelance engineer, operating under the trade name binary3. In this capacity, I am currently working for ASN Bank as an AWS engineer.

Additionally, I serve as an elected council member in Utrechtse Heuvelrug, representing PRO Heuvelrug. In this role, I focus on spatial topics like housing, mobility, and sustainability.

Outside work, I enjoy photography, learning Spanish, hiking, and climbing. My partner and I have a rather lively Wheaten Terrier to keep us busy.

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Contact

Here are my details if you would like to get in touch:

Public speaking

I have been lucky enough to get the opportunity to speak at several events:

Blog posts

I like to share some of the stuff I learned through blog posts. Here's a list of what I've written thus far:

Personal DevOops... I'm now cosplaying as a sysadmin
Personal De-Googling my life (to the extent that I could)
Y42 Quickstart for dbt Snowflake configuration
Y42 Extend Snowflake with dbt to streamline your data transformations
Personal Setting up a remote NAS with Tailscale to manage my photo archives
Iterative From Jupyter Notebook to DVC pipeline for reproducible ML experiments
Iterative CML Cloud Runners for Model Training in Bitbucket Pipelines
Iterative Turn Visual Studio Code into a machine learning experimentation platform with the DVC extension
Iterative Training and saving models with CML on a self-hosted AWS EC2 runner - part 2
Iterative Training and saving models with CML on a self-hosted AWS EC2 runner - part 1
Personal Lessons learnt forcing data science measures upon my colleagues
Personal A boring truth: your meeting needs an agenda

Projects

Outside of work I love trekking through nature and sleeping in a tent. When not travelling, I really enjoy organising stuff. Perhaps you might know me from one of the events I have helped organise in the past: