Independent IT Consulting · Greater Amsterdam Area

Deep technical expertise,
applied to your hardest problems.

A decade of enterprise systems engineering at scale — distributed infrastructure, Linux internals, security assessments, Python automation, and compliance advisory — available as an independent consultant.

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Credentials RHCSA Nutanix Certified Master (NCM MCI) VCP6-NV · VCP6-DCV NVIDIA AI Enterprise Admin KvK 42030997
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What I can help with

Engagements are scoped to the problem — from a focused investigation to an ongoing advisory relationship.

01 · Infrastructure
Linux & Distributed Systems
Kernel-level diagnostics, crash analysis, hyperconverged infrastructure (Nutanix, VMware, Hyper-V), NVMe/FC/NFS storage, and performance tuning for complex distributed environments.
Linux Nutanix VMware KVM/QEMU IPMI/BMC
02 · Security
Security Assessment & Compliance
Vulnerability assessments, penetration testing fundamentals, PCI and HIPAA compliance advisory, CVE analysis, and security posture reviews for infrastructure and cloud environments.
Nessus Rapid7 PCI HIPAA Metasploit
03 · Automation
Python Tooling & Data Pipelines
Diagnostic automation, telemetry correlation, SQL-driven analytics platforms, and custom Python tooling for operations teams — built for reliability at enterprise scale.
Python Bash SQL Snowflake Tableau
04 · Cloud & Virtualisation
Cloud Infrastructure & GPU Environments
AWS, GCP, Docker, and on-premise virtualisation. Specialist experience with NVIDIA GPU interoperability, VFIO/mdev passthrough, and AI Enterprise infrastructure.
AWS GCP Docker NVIDIA GPU passthrough
05 · Escalations
Complex Technical Escalations
Root cause analysis for production-critical issues that internal teams have been unable to resolve. Experienced as the last line of escalation across a global customer fleet of enterprise infrastructure.
RCA Crash analysis Cross-vendor Driver debugging
06 · Intelligence
Data Intelligence & OSINT Pipelines
Structured data extraction, entity resolution, and intelligence pipeline development. Background includes building production-grade OSINT systems used by compliance and government audiences.
OSINT Entity resolution Graph analytics Python
Derek Linz
// About

Derek Linz

A decade at Nutanix as a Sr. Staff Escalation Engineer — serving as the global reference point for NVIDIA GPU interoperability across 700+ engineering and support staff, building SQL-driven analytics platforms, and conducting kernel-level root cause analysis on production distributed systems.

Security work spans vulnerability assessment (Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM), PCI compliance advisory for enterprise clients, and HIPAA compliance advisory for Duke University Medical Center. Alongside the consultancy, the Linzalytics practice applies this engineering background to Russia sanctions intelligence.

Based in the Greater Amsterdam Area. Available for engagements across the Netherlands and remotely.

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Let's work together.

Describe the problem — I'll tell you quickly whether it's in scope.

derek.linz@linzalytics.com