Senior Data & Cloud Engineer
My name is Robert van Timmeren. I work as a Senior Data & Cloud Engineer, currently contracting at RIVM. I like to focus on Microsoft technologies, especially Azure, Databricks, and data engineering at scale.
Freelance work, hiring, or just a conversation about data platforms.
DLT solves real problems with pipeline reliability and dependency management. It also adds complexity and cost. Here is my honest take after using it in multiple production environments.
Automating end-to-end Databricks workspace deployments with Bicep: networking, identity, secrets, and the gotchas that cost you time when you learn them the hard way.
I have been meaning to start a blog for years. Here is the actual reason I finally did it — and what I plan to write about.