Hoofddorp, North Holland, Netherlands
Solutions-focused cloud architect with 15+ years of experience designing and implementing highly scalable, mission-critical customer-facing systems on AWS. Demonstrated success in architecting resilient cloud solutions that handle massive workloads while maintaining optimal performance and cost-effectiveness. Extensive hands-on expertise in modernizing applications using Docker, Infrastructure as Code, and Ansible automation, consistently delivering enterprise-grade architectures that exceed business objectives. Known for combining deep AWS technical knowledge with platform engineering best practices to transform complex business challenges into elegant, scalable cloud solutions. Strong track record of mentoring teams and driving cloud-native practices across organizations while ensuring operational excellence in mission-critical environments.
Founder building AI-driven technology products to solve real-world challenges through intelligent automation, scalable cloud-native systems, and modern software architecture.
• Enterprise Release & Deployment Architecture: Designed a target-state release and deploy- ment architecture to replace fragmented delivery models (Bamboo, Jenkins, manual processes), defining standardized quality, security, and operational guardrails. Proposed feature-flag–driven release patterns to decouple deployment from release, reducing production risk; architecture ap- proved by CTO and CIO for enterprise-wide adoption. • Delivery Governance & Metrics Design: Architected a governance and KPI model based on DORA metrics and security controls, enabling consistent measurement of delivery perfor- mance, operational risk, and compliance across teams. Provided leadership with a transparent, architecture-aligned view of delivery maturity and improvement areas. • CI/CD Platform Strategy (GitLab PoV): Led the architectural assessment and proof-of- value for GitLab as a centralized CI/CD and governance platform. Evaluated platform capabilities against the target delivery architecture, resulting in leadership approval for procurement and phased rollout as the foundation for standardized enterprise delivery.
CI/CD Platform Modernization: Leading migration from CodePipeline/CloudFormation to Terraform-powered GitHub Actions workflows. Engineered state migration pipelines importing 40+ legacy AWS resources (VPC/ALB/RDS) into Terraform control, establishing IaC-as-truth foundation. Replacing fragmented CloudFormation stacks with organization-wide Terraform modules Multi-Account Tag Governance: Designing AWS App Registry solution with DynamoDB-backed tag enforcement (Lambda/SQS). Standardizes resource metadata across workloads for FinOps cost allocation and access control policies.
Cross-Platform Credential Automation: Spearheaded AWS CDK-based secret rotation service integrated with HashiCorp Vault, adopted as shared security layer for AWX, GitLab Runners, and many other production microservices. Enforced ephemeral IAM credentials via STS AssumeRole patterns. Multi-OS Deprecation Program: Orchestrated Ansible-driven lifecycle management replacing legacy Linux (CentOS 6/7) and Windows Server 2012 instances. Automated CIS benchmark enforcement for AMIs via AWX Tower workflows and vulnerability-driven retirement policies. Low-Code Platform Security: Engineered compliant Mendix deployment on ECS/Fargate with RDS encryption, implementing GitLab CI pipelines for Service Catalog-based provisioning. Splunk Observability Modernization: Led Victoria Metrics migration from classic tenet, implemented cost-optimized retention of audit trails.