Netherlands
Matthijs van den Berg is Director of Customer Engineering for Google Cloud in the Benelux. He leads teams of engineers focused on helping enterprise organizations turn complex technology into real business value. With over 15 years of experience in cloud infrastructure and data, Matthijs specializes in navigating the shift from traditional IT to an Modern IT platforms like Cloud and the Agentic Enterprise. His focus is on building high-performing technical teams and implementing scalable, secure AI and data strategies. Beyond his professional role, he is a tinkerer and hands-on builder who enjoys exploring the practical applications of technology through 3D printing and engineering.
Facilitating and growing a team of seasoned cloud pre-sales professionals at Google Cloud for Benelux based Enterprise accounts.
SE manager for the Dutch pre-sales organization. Managing the local SE team, working with other parts of the organization to build GTM, etc.
Heading and growing the Dutch Nutanix pre-sales organization. Main focus is on enabling and growing the team. Done this by making sure that in the fast moving Nutanix organization that is moving from a single product company to a company with almost 15 products, all the SE's can flourish and work to their highest potential. Building the team with meetings, trainings, hackathons ,team building activities, etc.
Sr. Systems Engineer at Nutanix for the Healthcare en Education vertical in the Netherlands with a strong focus on reducing datacenter complexity. Creating a secure, high available and easy to maintain private cloud on customer premise that can run intensive business applications that need to be always on. Worked on many environments and validations for tools like EPIC and ChipSoft HiX.
Systems Engineer Networking at Citrix Netherlands with focus on the Citrix networking products NetScaler and CloudBridge. Citrix NetScaler is a leading Application Delivery Controller that can improve the availability, security and performance of applications. Citrix Cloud Bridge is a WAN optimization technology to increase application responsiveness and decrease bandwidth requirements for branch offices. MVP, presidents club and 100% club winner, contributed to tripling NetScaler business at Citrix NL.
The product specialists withing the governmental organization Rijkswaterstaat are responsible for designing the ICT infrastructure. Aspects of the IT infrastructure are divided into building blocks. My task is to develop and maintain the building blocks related to enterprise storage solutions, Microsoft server operating systems and server virtualization. Those building blocks consist of a release calendar, functional and technical descriptions and installation and maintenance handbooks.
Cordaan is a care organization with centers in Amsterdam, Diemen, Huizen, Maartensdijk and Haarlem. After the merge with Amsterdam Thuiszorg the IT environment needed to be consolidated to one integrated, user friendly and better maintainable IT infrastructure. On a technical level a second datacenter was obtained and connected to the primary datacenter. A new storage-, network- and (virtual)server infrastructure was implemented to facilitate datacenter failover to ensure high availability. I implemented the hardware, networking, Virtual (VMware vSphere 4) and storage infrastructure. Afterward a SAN based replication was used to migrate the data and virtual machines to the new infrastructure. Characteristics of the infrastructure are HP blades (G6), EVA storage system (with DR), Cisco 4500 (4 in a double redundant setup) and VMware vSphere 4. All connections between the DC’s is done over dark fiber.