Meet the Team
Pionative is a company in the Netherlands that specializes in Kubernetes. We love open-source and open standards. Both founders are technically oriented, which means we have an enormous amount of Kubernetes knowledge. Drop us a message and let's drink a cup of coffee!
Co-founder
Hijmen Fokker
Founder of Pionative with a lot of experience in Consultancy and Cloud-Native architecture. Hijmen focuses on technical strategy, Kubernetes architecture and DevOps processes.
DevOps & Kubernetes Engineer
Andres Hamed Fernandez
Technical veteran with 20+ years of experience in Unix infrastructure, Kubernetes, DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering. Andres keeps Kubernetes healthy and fixes issues before our clients even notice it.
Co-founder
Pieter van der Giessen
Founder of Pionative with a technical background in Cloud, Platform Engineering and Kubernetes. He (CKS, CISSP and CCSP certified) obviously likes to implement enterprise-grade security.
DevOps & Kubernetes engineer
Martijn Bunschoten
Martijn masters new technologies and concepts in no-time. Because of his broad interests and experience, he has developed a huge skillset, which he uses to help our clients get to the next level.
DevOps & Kubernetes Engineer
Mike Vink
Engineer, coder and automation guru with experience in DevOps, Kubernetes and Cloud-Native technology. Mike likes to dig deep and understand computing from the ground-up.