Michelle M. Goossens (alias MichelleWayZ)
Infrastructure Engineer (vCloud) at ODC-Noord (Dutch Government Datacenter North)
Building and maintaining cloud infrastructure, automating the cloud, with occasional coding and streaming on Twitch with my homelab.
Programs
VMware vExpert PRO
Certifications
Advanced Professional - Cloud Foundation Networking (9.0)
VCAP-VCF Administrator
Advanced Professional - Cloud Foundation Administratior (9.0)
VCAP-VCF Administrator
Professional Scrum Master I
PSM I
Professional - Cloud Foundation Administrator (5.2)
VCP-VCF 5.2
VMware Cloud
VCP-VMC 2022
Data Center Virtualization
VCP-DCV 2021
What I do
Infrastructure Engineer vCloud at ODC-Noord
Deploying and managing the private VMware cloud, at the Dutch government datacenter North, along with automation.
05/2025 - 05/2026
Trainee at ODC-Noord
After a long forced break from working, started the Traineeship program at ODC-Noord. Including becoming Scrum Master certified. This was ended early (after one year instead of the normal two years) due to great success and was offered a full-time position at the vCloud team, as this is where my main expertises are and can be used the most.
01/2023 - 12/2023
Site Reliability Engineer at Mozilla
Maintaining and updating hardware test workers (Windows, Linux, Android, Mac), cloud images for test workers, test migration efforts, major OS upgrade efforts, adding new testing pools & more..
03/2022 - 12/2022
Firefox CI GCP Migration Specialist at Mozilla
Migrating CI workers from Mozilla's leading CI platform Taskcluster to Google Cloud. Includes major OS updates, test image creation/management, migrations between cloud providers, and more..
Volunteering
IT-related volunteer work I do alongside my day job.
Server Administrator Manager at International Virtual Aviation Organisation
Managing the Server Administration team, along with regular Server Administration tasks; provisioning and managing servers, networking, multiple Kubernetes clusters and building automation.
Netherlands Webmaster (Advisor) at International Virtual Aviation Organisation
Formerly Netherlands Webmaster until around mid-2025, now Webmaster Advisor for the Netherlands division.
06/2023 - 05/2024
Server Administrator at International Virtual Aviation Organisation
Provisioning and managing servers, networking, multiple Kubernetes clusters and building automation.
09/2022 - 09/2023
Community Engagement Advisor at International Virtual Aviation Organisation
CE Advisor under Public Relations, managing social media accounts, Discord, Twitch moderation and more..
Technologies
Tools and platforms I work with day to day.
- VMware vSphere Expert
- VMware NSX Expert
- VMware Cloud Director Expert
- Linux (RHEL, Fedora, Debian..) Specialist
- Avi Load Balancer Specialist
- VMware vSAN Advanced
- VMware Aria Operations, Logs, Automation and Network/VCF Operations (+Logs, Network, Automation) Advanced
- Terraform Advanced
- Ansible Advanced
- Kubernetes Intermediate
- Python Intermediate
- Active Directory Intermediate
- Windows Server Intermediate
- Rust Beginner