Netherlands
I am a seasoned technology leader with 20+ years of experience driving digital transformation, product engineering excellence, and IT operations modernization across large enterprises, scale-ups, and government organizations. Proven track record in scaling organizations, shaping engineering culture, and enabling secure, resilient software delivery at enterprise scale. As Co-Founder of The Factory, I built a tech-driven organization from the ground up, scaling from 0 -> 25 employees and delivering mission-critical transformations for government, education, and commercial enterprises. Prior roles include leadership of global engineering and operations teams and enterprise-scale infrastructure modernization programs across Europe and the US. Experienced in guiding engineering managers and teams, implementing DevOps & SecOps practices, and establishing a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement. Skilled at aligning technology strategy with business outcomes and building high-performing, autonomous teams. Some keywords: result-driven, entrepreneurial, enthusiastic, relator, arranger, activator.
I co-founded The Factory with the mission to transform businesses into tech-driven organizations, bridging technical innovation with strategic goals through digital transformation. As a leader, I wear many hats: - Scaling the company from 0 → 25 FTE. - Driving commercial growth: closing projects, managed services, and interim assignments with a diverse customer base. - Building strong partnerships with AWS, Microsoft Azure, GitHub, DataDog, and other leading vendors. - Ensuring operational excellence, nurturing our team, and strengthening customer relationships. Alongside managing the company, I support customers directly in interim roles such as CTO, Cloud Architect, and IT Advisor. Projects & Achievements: ► AI Platforms – Designed & developed platforms on Azure OpenAI (GPT-4, GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini) and Azure AI Search. • LUCA (Leiden University Cognitive Agent): Safe bot-creation platform for lecturers & students. • LULA (Leiden University Language Assistant): Real-time speech with 3D avatars. • Transcribing services & AI implementations on Azure & AWS. ► Cloud Adoption & Migration – Guided organizations with assessments, Cloud Landing Zones (Azure & AWS), workload migrations, DevOps transformation and process implementations. ► DevOps & CI/CD – Migrated CI/CD ecosystems to GitHub, Azure DevOps, and GitLab CI. ► Start-up Solution (Space Tech): Built greenfield front & backend for telemetry ingestion and control plane on Azure, with C# APIs exposed via Azure API Management. ► Government Projects: Migrated Dutch government workloads to Microsoft Azure, enabling agility in data science & HPC. ► Private Cloud Migration (VMware): Automated infrastructure with Puppet & Packer; delivered secure service baselines (MS SQL, MariaDB, Apache/IIS) aligned to CIS standards. ► Certifications: Drove the company’s successful ISO9001 & ISO27001 certification.
Designing, building and managing mission critical systems of our customers. Achieving 100% functional uptime. Creating innovative solutions, implementing CI/CD pipelines, reduce time to market, lower costs and increase agility. This is all done with the latest technologies at the highest standards. At Schuberg Philis I served customers like: ► The Dutch sea pilots; responsible for their 24/7 mission critical systems. Designed and migrated a new platform for these services in AWS. Fully automated deployments. From 2 deployments a year to daily, multiple, deployments. ► helped out start-ups to setup shop, setting up Kubernetes container platforms in the AWS cloud, created designs for their software architecture and making sure they got reliable end-to-end CI/CD pipelines. Created a logging API for customized logging purposes. ► for a large cancer research organisation, for which we run an HPC compute platform to process sequenced full genome data, I have created a front- and backend application to manage the HPC pipeline (based on angular/js and Flask) and automated pipeline processing jobs. Created microservices for SAML authentication, Reporting, Validators, etc. Working with products like: ✭ CentOS / CoreOS / Windows 2008 - 2016 ✭ Chef ✭ Terraform ✭ Kubernetes / Docker ✭ GitlabCI / TFS / Jenkins ✭ Rundeck / Octopus ✭ Datadog / Sensu / Nagios ✭ Okta ✭ Traefik / HAProxy / Apache ✭ SonarQube
Managing our Digital Analytix (SaaS platform) DevOPS and Network engineering team (10FTE). Accountable for 24/7 operations of our information systems in EU and US. (multiple datacenters, 2500+ physical servers and 4PB+ storage). Working closely with suppliers, doing (contract) negotiations. ► Responsible migrating to a new custom designed datacenter housing location in the Netherlands which involved infrastructure (custom fiber connections, transit), hard- and software purchase, technical migration, etc. ► worked on the architecture of the information systems together with the stake holders from software development, product owners, etc. ► implemented various new technologies to ensure 24/7 availability of our services Working with products like: ✭ CentOS / Ubuntu ✭ EMC Isilon ✭ cfEngine / SALT ✭ Bash / Python / Ruby ✭ VMware vSphere / OpenStack / Amazon AWS
Accountable for implementing and delivery of new IT services. Managed team of system engineers. ► 24/7 responsible for web reservation systems, arrival/departure systems, B2C and B2B web environments ► Automated deployments for the web reservation systems ► Managed suppliers, negotiations for new hard- software ► Responsible for growing the team Working with products like: ✭ VMWare ✭ Ubuntu ✭ Cisco ACE Load balancers ✭ DELL blade centers ✭ JBOSS, WebSphere ✭ Tivoli Access Management ✭ IBM DB/2