Maxim's background story is not a straight line from graduation to current position. Instead, Maxim has worked in various fields, from law enforcement to academia, through being a consultant in several mid-size and large IT firms in the Netherlands until ending up at Red Hat. At Red Hat, Maxim is part of the presales team in the Benelux region as a principal solution architect and part-time evangelist. Red Hat is the place where Maxim was destined to reach: This job was his ultimate goal ever since he started to work with Linux and other open source software in the early '00s. He is passionate about Red Hat and the way that Red Hat does its software development: Out in the open. Maxim has spoken at various conferences, both in Europe and the United States, about the Red Hat portfolio and open society in general, and open source in particular. Maxim is practically bilingual, presenting in Dutch and English with the same ease: He was voted #1 speaker at Red Hat Summit 2018 in San Francisco, an event with over 7,000 attendees from around the globe and hundreds of break out sessions.
Before I came to Red Hat, I used to work for a Red Hat partner as a consultant and architect. During that time, I was involved in quite a few situations where I had to help people move from one platform to another, most often from some flavor of Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As Linux is the de facto standard platform for many development teams, it seemed to make sense to translate some of that experience into a...
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