Hey, I am Rom, also known as romdalf on socials,
a Belgian open-source enthousiast based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands,
working at the NetApp Office of the CTO as Principal Engineer
researching, prototyping, and developing the next solutions and innovations
at the intersections of storage, microservices, and AI.
| Name | Description | State | Repository |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trousseau | Kubernetes KMSv1 Provider Plugin | Deprecated | Trousseau |
| Kleidi | Kubernetes KMSv2 Provider Plugin support Vault and PKCS#11 comnpatible HSM | Active | Kleidi |
| NetApp Consoles for OpenShift | Native consoles to support NetApp Trident and Protect management on OpenShift | Active | NetApp Innovation Labs |
| Neo Deployment Strategies | NetApp Neo Docker and Kubernetes Helm Charts deployment maintainer | Active | NetApp Innovation Labs |
| Neo UI Framework | UI framework supporting NetApp Neo open to customer and partners | Active | NetApp Innovation Labs |
| Neo Fuse Framework | Linux Fuse client to mount content from NetApp Neo as a local filesystem | Active | NetApp Innovation Labs |
| Title | Published on | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes Secrets Handbook | packt | 01/2024 |
| Kubernetes – An Enterprise Guide | packt | 08/2024 |
| The Kubernetes Bible | packt | 11/2024 |
| Title | Published on | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Digital Wallonia, a proposal for a digital plan (in French) | Belgian Walloon Regional Government | 09/2015 |
| The Intrepid Squirrel is Out! | Ondat.io | 12/2021 |
| 3 key takeaways from KubeCon NA 2021 | Ondat.io | 11/2021 |
| Stateful Application in Kubernetes: it pays to plan ahead | TheNewStack.io | 10/2021 |
| On-premises vs cloud native storage | TheNewStack.io | 08/2021 |
| The biggest gap in Kubernetes storage architecture | TheNewStack.io | 07/2021 |
| How to solve kubernetes persistent storage challenges | TheNewStack.io | 06/2021 |
| Deploying cloud native persistent storage in the age of containers | TheNewStack.io | 05/2021 |
| Can Kubernetes help solve automation challenges? | opensource.com | 10/2022 |
| Title | Venue | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source to Enterprise Open Source | Open 22 | 03/2022 | Antwerpen |
| Innovation with Open Source | Red Hat Academy at Henallux | 03/2022 | Namur |
| Master of Ceremony | Red Hat Ansible Automates | 05/2022 | Brussels |
| Refactoring your application at your own pace | Open for Gov | 06/2022 | Brussels |
| A Kubernetes Zero-Trust Security Model using a KMS provider plugin | HashiConf Europe Recording | 06/2022 | Amsterdam |
| Solving the Kubernetes Secret conundrum | Hashicorp User Group at Natilik | 06/2022 | London |
| State of Kubernetes Secret Management | Red Hat EMEA Tech Exchange | 01/2023 | Dublin |
| How regulating software for the European market could impact FOSS | FSODEM 2023 | 02/2023 | Brussels |
| The State of Open Source from a Community PoV solving Diabetes | Open 23 | 03/2023 | Mechelen |
| Intelligent Data Infrastructure for Cloud-Native Agility in Hybrid Multi-Cloud | Stockholm Cloud Native & Container Day 2025 | 03/2024 | Stockholm |
| Title | Venue | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Trousseau - the Kubernetes Key Management Service provider | Fosdem | 02/2022 |
| How to keep a Kubernetes secret a secret the universal way | CNCF on-demand webinar | 12/2021 |
| Cloud Field Day 12 | Tech Field Day | 11/2021 |
| Solving Data Protection the DevOps way | DevOps.com | 09/2021 |
| How to solve Kubernetes Persistent Storage at scale and speed the GitOps way | DeveloperWeek Global Cloud | 07/2021 |
| Accelerating Kubernetes Onboarding and Application Transformation | StorageOS | 08/2021 |
| Database-as-a-Service with PostgreSQL and persistent storage | StorageOS | 05/2021 |
| We have been hacked! | Red Hat Tech Month | 02/2021 |
| Secrets or not, but don't clear text | Fosdem | 02/2021 |
| From remote with love | Red Hat EMEA Forum | 11/2020 |