Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
I’m a Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, based in the Netherlands and serving customers across EMEA. I help enterprises modernize application platforms, move from Azure DevOps to GitHub Enterprise, and accelerate data/AI adoption—balancing architecture with hands‑on delivery to get real outcomes into production. As a Factory Tech Lead for Cloud + AI Platforms (EMEA), I partner with field teams and customers to scope, prove, and scale modernization: cloud‑native refactoring on Azure App Service/AKS, secure networking and landing zones, GitHub Actions CI/CD, and “secure by default” patterns for identity, governance, and observability. I’m equally comfortable in discovery workshops with executives and deep‑dive sessions with engineering teams. What I bring: • Architecture depth across Azure (App Services, Functions, API Management, Microsoft Sentinel, Azure Arc, Azure Bicep) and GitHub (GEI, org/repo design, Actions) • A track record of accelerating migrations and reducing lead‑time by turning runbooks and scripts into repeatable, field‑tested assets • Clear communication—technical presentations, docs, and “why it matters” narratives that align stakeholders and unblock delivery Personal notes: I care about allyship, sustainability, and making technology simpler for people. Outside work you’ll usually find me working on home automation, and smart home projects. Let’s connect if you’re exploring: Azure modernization, GitHub migrations, platform engineering, cloud security, or pragmatic AI patterns—and want to move from slideware to shipped value.
Grateful for 6+ years at Microsoft (since Sept 2019) as Senior Cloud Solution Architect — building, modernizing, and accelerating on Azure & GitHub across EMEA. What I work on ✅ App modernization on Azure (App Service/AKS, serverless, secure networking & landing zones) ✅ Azure DevOps → GitHub Enterprise migrations (org/repo design, GEI, GitHub Actions CI/CD) ✅ Data/AI adoption patterns with “secure‑by‑default” architecture and observability ✅ Hands‑on enablement: workshops, reference architectures, and field‑tested runbooks Scope ✅ EMEA coverage as Factory Tech Lead, Cloud + AI Platforms (Netherlands‑based) ✅ Engagements spanning hybrid cloud, platform engineering, and regulated environments ✅ Collaboration with field teams, engineering, and customer leadership for end‑to‑end delivery Responsibilities ✅ Define and review target architectures (identity, governance, networking, SecOps) ✅ Translate business goals into actionable roadmaps and repeatable delivery playbooks ✅ Lead migration programs to GitHub; stand up secure CI/CD and deployment pipelines ✅ Mentor engineers, drive community sharing, and present technical content Selected achievements ✅ Accelerated multiple enterprise ADO → GitHub migrations with standardized, reusable assets ✅ Converted runbooks/scripts into repeatable toolchains that reduced lead time and risk ✅ Delivered modernization workshops that unblocked teams and aligned stakeholders ✅ Drove Factory nominations and scopes that helped customers realize value faster Always happy to connect with architects, platform engineers, and leaders exploring modernization, GitHub migrations, cloud security, and pragmatic AI on Azure. #Microsoft #Azure #GitHub #AppModernization #DevOps #CloudSecurity #AI #EMEA #CSA #PlatformEngineering
At Microsoft, my role as a senior customer engineer, and Technology advisory, my work and focus are on cloud adoption, usage, and cloud migration programs for customers globally. In these role and specialty, some of the highlights of my work and responsibility includes: ✓ Cloud workload support and advisory service ✓ Technical advisory, workshops and providing examples of best practices. ✓ Providing support and advisory for Devops, DevSecops, cloud native application development. ✓ With a technical background – providing hands-on code examples on various cloud related projects, migration programs, and security standards. ✓ Providing technical deliveries and development plan to customers ✓ Providing technical workshops as a trainer to customer team.
I was hired by Waternet in the role of Azure DevOps Advisory and Integration Specialist. In this role, my responsibilities are: ✓ Enable Azure API Management within the organization. ✓ Steer adoption of best practices and industry standards for Azure API Management ✓ Promote awareness and best practices for DevOps for API Management ✓ Help and guide the team in the technology stack for API Management, CI / CD steps, Azure ARM templates and PowerShell
After over 15 years working as an employee for major international IT consulting companies, I became independent and started Pinaki IT solutions to deliver professional solutions directly to clients. Clear solutions to your complex problems, delivered professionally. I focus on providing solutions for small, medium and enterprise business establishments using Microsoft technologies especially Azure cloud solutions, being Microsoft certified in various technologies such as Office365, Azure, .NET, database etc. and TOGAF certified Enterprise Architect. In addition to being certified in Microsoft Azure and DevOps, I am also a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Azure Cloud solutions, Machine Learning and Office 365 solutions. My previous clients are listed below
I was hired by Royal Dutch Shell in the role of Azure Solutions Architect. In this role, my responsibilities are: ✓ Providing Architecture documents and advise related to Azure Cloud solutions. ✓ Helping the team with AI and Machine Learning development on Azure platform. ✓ Help and guide the development team and Data scientists deploying AI applications on Azure. ✓ Implement Azure DevOps CI / CD pipeline for Python stack, Docker Containerized deployment with Azure Kubernetes Services
✓ Delivered quality applications to clients using advanced and new technologies. ✓ Introduced new and efficient techniques for Azure Active directory solutions for the clients. ✓ Increased on-premises to Azure AD user synchronization speed and efficiency over 80%. ✓ On time, quality delivery for all projects and clients. ✓ Delivered satisfaction rating of over 95%. Environment : SharePoint online, Office 365, SharePoint 2013, Azure AD, Azure PaaS, SaaS applications.
✓ Helped with architecture and development for various clients. ✓ Applied best-practices, and enterprise architecture. ✓ Mentored clients development team for best practices in SharePoint development. Clients : Stolt-Nielsen, Asset Management Control Research Foundation. Environment: SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint online, BizTalk 2013, Application integration, Messaging patterns
✓ Delivered high performance Microsoft Solutions for Royal Dutch Shell. ✓ Steered operations for better productivity within the organization. ✓ Applied architecture, design and development of custom SharePoint 2010 applications. ✓ Introduced and implemented Application Life cycle management (ALM) using Team Foundation. Environment: C#, ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, SharePoint online, SharePoint API, LiveLink