i3D.net
Peter van Arkel is a highly experienced IT professional currently serving as a Senior Infrastructure Systems Engineer at i3D.net, a subsidiary of Ubisoft, since February 2023. As the owner of Hippogrief since 2017, Peter specializes in consulting for infrastructure migrations to private cloud or other hosting solutions for small to medium-sized businesses. Previous roles include IT Infrastructure Engineer at Working Spirit, DevOps Engineer at Karify, and Infrastructure Manager at Virtual Sciences, where responsibilities encompassed system management, network equipment, OS, and service administration. Peter’s earlier positions also include Service Engineer for Linux at Netsourcing and Medior Systems Engineer at Koning ICT Dienstverlening, along with involvement in nonprofit organizations as treasurer and board member, highlighting a diverse skill set in IT infrastructure and management.
i3D.net
i3D.net is a leading provider of scalable hosting solutions for game studios and enterprises. Our unique infrastructure spans from Seattle to Sydney, Tokyo to Santiago, and everything in between. This high-performance network combined with our gaming expertise helps us to deliver low latency experiences across the globe. Since 2019, i3D.net is a proud member of the Ubisoft family, which allows us to help even more customers to deploy, manage and scale their games and applications across the globe. As game sector veterans, we know what it takes for a network to withstand heavy demands. We build out our network presence in data centers across the globe – from Moscow to Mumbai, Amsterdam to Seattle, and everything in between – bringing content closer to the users. And year on year, we continue to expand faster than ever, keeping some of the world's biggest games and WebRTC-based services online, and their users connected. Our team works hard on everything related to running our privately owned premium network, from opening new points-of-presence, setting up peering relationships, developing integral products like our unique ONE Hosting Platform, anti-DDoS protection, and serving our customers with expert help and advice. We're always trying to reach the next level. Whether that's as a business, or in a video game. And we encourage our team to do the same. Our company culture fosters an atmosphere of independent thought and self-reliance, based on mutual trust. Finally, we play even harder, in our office gym and bar, and with our lifetime access to Ubisoft games.