Oliver Hoogvliet

Does work change when I get older. Oh yes! Is it worse? Hell, no! It's just different with changing perspectives. Every experience I made changed my perspective. For me, this was always a wonderful trip. Plans changed – and there was always a good reason behind. Was it easy? No, but it was always helpful.

This is my expertise: diploma as biologist, 15 years of classic/chaotic/agile development, perl, Java, python, several kind of databases (I love graph dbs), Linux platforms. I had the luck to work in very progressive teams using micro commits, github, tdd, DevOps, K8s, prometheus, grafana, influxdb, etc.

But there is more than IT: my concern is people. How do we collaborate and support each other? What does it mean to work as consultant, scrum m*ster, agile coach, team lead – as employee or self-employed. I've trained a lot of teams to work with Scrum, Kanban. It always was this pragmatic way: what is the value for the current team? I saw the advantages of holacracy – and it's traps. This way hasn't finished yet, it goes on with learning psychology and working as diversity trainer.

I hope, I was able to show you my history. I am Oliver, pronouns he/him, cis, white, queer.
As a mentor, I will support you with my experience. The focus is now on you. What do you need for your next step?