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D'Angelo Karijopawiro

VMware and IT Infrastructure Consultant

Professional Summary

Experienced VMware and IT infrastructure consultant with 10+ years of expertise in virtualization, NSX networking, and cloud solutions. Certified VCIX-DCV and VCIX-NV professional with a proven track record of delivering complex enterprise solutions for major organizations across the Netherlands.

Professional Experience

System Designer (NSX/VCF Specialist)

Politie | on behalf of VKernel

January 2025 – Present

Nieuwegein

As a system designer for the Politie, I specialize in NSX and oversee the Network Virtualization layer for a new project. Additionally, with my broad expertise in VMware, I support the Infra team in managing the VMware VCF environment.

Platform Engineer (VMware Specialist)

Tennet TSO | on behalf of VKernel

April 2024 – December 2024

Arnhem

Tennet was seeking a VMware specialist with expertise in VMware VCF to develop both the HLD and LLD designs and implement them. The POC aimed to validate the integration and functionality of VMware components within a scalable and secure infrastructure environment.

Technologies:

NSX vCenter vSAN (Stretched Cluster) SDDC Manager Avi Load Balancer VMware DSM

VMware Consultant

Belastingdienst | on behalf of VKernel

June 2023 – April 2024

Apeldoorn

The Belastingdienst needed a vRA/vRO engineer to continue the support of their vRA platform. They also needed help with designing a new greenfield vSphere infrastructure for one of their projects.

Responsibilities:

  • Lifecycle management of all the vSphere/Aria products
  • Maintaining vRA blueprints and introducing new feature requests

Projects:

  • Creating a new greenfield vSphere design and being part of the implementation team

VMware Consultant

CAM IT | on behalf of VKernel

February 2022 – June 2023

Amersfoort

CAM IT initially contacted Vkernel for an NSX-V to NSX-T migration project, but because of the broad knowledge in VMware, they also decided to hire me for other projects within the company.

Projects:

  • NSX-V to NSX-T migrations
  • Automating VMware daily checks
  • Creating POCs of various VMware products for customers
  • Creating NSX-T greenfield design
  • Creating VMware service releases
  • Creating NSX security Baseline
  • Implementing NSX Micro-segmentation

VMware Consultant

VKernel B.V.

February 2022 – Present

Almere

Started my own company to provide VMware related services to customers as freelancer.

VMware Consultant

Ministerie van Defensie

June 2021 – December 2021

Maasland

Ministerie van Defensie contacted AnylinQ for designing and implementing a new datacenter based on vSphere with VSAN. My role within the project was to participate with the design process and also implementing the infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

  • Creating design documents
  • Participate with customer meetings regarding the project
  • Deploy and configure the vSphere environment with VSAN
  • Creating documentation for administrators to manage the VMware products

VMware Consultant

Van Leeuwen Buizen

August 2020 – December 2020

Zwijndrecht

Van Leeuwen Buizen contacted AnylinQ for designing and implementing a new datacenter based on VMware Cloud Foundation. My role within the project was implementing the infrastructure based on the design that was created by a colleague of mine.

Responsibilities:

  • Deploy and configure VCF (vSphere/NSX-T and VSAN)
  • Deploy and configure 1 Workspace One Access node that was used for NSX-T authentication
  • Deploy and configure vRSLCM
  • Deploy and configure VIDM cluster
  • Deploy and configure vROPS and vRLI
  • Participate in design workshops
  • Creating documentation for administrators to manage the VMware products

VMware Specialist

AnylinQ

August 2020 – January 2022

Leusden

AnylinQ is a company that helps customers with all types of IT related business needs. My main focus at AnylinQ is helping customers with VMware relates projects like: implementing VCF, vSphere, NSX-T environments, but also designing a vSphere environment.

VMware Cloud Engineer

Denit Hosting

August 2019 – August 2020

Amsterdam

Denit Hosting is a company that specializes in delivering hosting services to customers. My main responsibility as a VMware Cloud Engineer at Denit Hosting was to maintain their existing VMware infrastructures.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage 11 vCenter environments
  • Manage 2 VMware Cloud Director environments
  • Manage 2 NSX-V environments
  • Assisting colleagues with VMware related issues/questions
  • Manage Zerto environment
  • Plan and execute migrations
  • Manage Veeam environment
  • Manage storage devices (Netapp & IBM Storage devices)
  • Create/maintain documentations
  • Participate in new projects

Senior System Engineer

Inlumi

February 2015 – August 2019

Utrecht

My responsibility as a systems engineer at Inlumi was to maintain their shared infrastructure as well as 21 dedicated customer infrastructures. Started as a junior system engineer and eventually got promoted to medior and then senior system engineer. Inlumi specializes in Oracle EPM environments that can run on Linux or Microsoft.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage vCenter environments
  • Manage Windows environments
  • Troubleshooting and resolving VMware and Microsoft environment issues
  • Implementing Disaster Recovery and performing DR tests
  • Manage infra backups
  • Create/maintain documentations
  • Plan and execute migrations
  • Participate in new projects

System Engineer

Staro Automatisering

September 2012 – December 2014

Netherlands

Skilled ServiceDesk

Capgemini

April 2011 – September 2012

Netherlands

IT Support Engineer

Monteur aan huis

January 2011 – April 2011

Netherlands

IT Support Engineer (Intern)

Gold Automatisering

August 2009 – January 2010

Netherlands

IT Support Engineer (Intern)

MyCom

September 2008 – January 2009

Netherlands

Certifications

  • VMware Certified Implementation Expert - Data Center Virtualization (VCIX-DCV)
    VMware, Inc. • 2023
  • VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization Design (VCAP-DCV Design)
    VMware, Inc. • 2023
  • VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization Deploy (VCAP-DCV Deploy)
    VMware, Inc. • 2023
  • VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)
    VMware, Inc. • 2016
  • VMware Certified Implementation Expert - Network Virtualization (VCIX-NV)
    VMware, Inc. • 2023
  • VMware Certified Professional - Network Virtualization (VCP-NV)
    VMware, Inc. • 2020
  • VMware Certified Advanced Professional - NV Design (VCAP-NV Design)
    VMware, Inc. • 2023
  • VMware Certified Advanced Professional - NV Deploy (VCAP-NV Deploy)
    VMware, Inc. • 2023
  • vExpert
    VMware, Inc. • 2020-2025
  • Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA)
    Microsoft • 2014
  • Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE)
    Microsoft • 2016

Technical Skills

Virtualization

VMware vSphere Hyper-V Citrix XenServer

Networking

NSX-T NSX-V Avi Load Balancer

Storage

vSAN Storage Solutions Netapp IBM Storage

Cloud

VCF vCloud Director Cloud Migration

Automation

PowerCLI Ansible PowerShell Bash

IaC

Terraform

Security

Disaster Recovery Infrastructure Security VMware DSM

Operations

vROPS vRLI

Disaster Recovery

SRM Zerto

Identity

Workspace ONE Access

Lifecycle Management

vRSLCM

Operating Systems

Windows Server CentOS Ubuntu Debian Photon OS

Web Development

HTML CSS

Backup

Veeam