Stefan van Gastel
Dutch Ministry of Defence
Head of Innovation and Research at JIVC
Starting his career as a web developer, Stefan van Gastel has seen and joined the rise of innovative technologies, methods, and principles. Being responsible for starting movements to implement CI/CD, DevOps, containerization, and other modern software development practices within the Dutch Ministry of Defence, he is no stranger to resistance and bringing change to a traditionally conservative organization. Stefan has identified and implemented multiple technological innovations within the Dutch MOD. Using BitTorrent to efficiently distribute software over untrustworthy connections, creating a mobile app suite for the military police to securely merge civil and military data and information streams and lead the cloud native transformation initiative are some examples of his achievements as an IT innovation manager.
