Cloud architect, Tech lead, DevOps engineer
I design the platforms large organisations depend on, lead the teams that build them, and automate how they ship.
Independent and based in the Netherlands. Mostly Google Cloud, where I hold five certifications, and Azure.
3,000+applications depend on it
For the middleware team of about 150 people, I architected solutions that more than 3,000 applications depend on. I also delivered six enterprise Terraform modules used across 1,000+ applications and integrations.
−70%team cloud costs, so far
In a data engineering team handling 5K–50K events a second, I helped cut the team’s cloud costs by 70% so far, and stabilised a pipeline that had weekly outages, partly by turning it from stateful into stateless.
At RDI, part of the Dutch government, preparing applications for modernisation across Azure, on-premise and GovCloud, starting with a fit-gap analysis of dozens of applications against Dutch law, regulations and standards such as BIO and DigiD.
23microservices, one shared database
For a quote platform responsible for hundreds of millions in revenue a year, I designed its move to Azure Kubernetes Service, worked on it hands-on and guided its team of about 30 developers through it. I also architected splitting the database its 23 microservices shared, partly completed during the engagement.
~5 TBraw user events a day
Part of the team turning raw events from millions of users into search journeys, KPIs and recommendations. I introduced the team to mutation analysis to measure test quality, and mentored engineers.
2 monthsto live, under PCI-DSS
For a critical payment service, I helped bring integrations with all major Dutch payment providers live.
Before that.Skyworkz, cloud consultant across architecture, data engineering and DevOps, and organiser of internal learning; 4PS, cloud architect, responsible for the technology vision and cloud adoption strategy; Trippix, founder of a side venture, an AI travel planner on Gemini, Cloud Run, Firestore and BigQuery.
The work I like best starts with a tangled system: a database shared by 23 services, a pipeline that falls over every week, a cloud bill far higher than it needs to be. I help take it apart until the better design is obvious, and I can usually show why the old one was worse.
I set a clear direction and give teams the scaffolding to run with it: C4 diagrams, runbooks, a lot of conversations and written-down decisions. At Air France-KLM I reintroduced Architecture Decision Records to the middleware team. The people building it can then decide without waiting for me.
And I stay hands-on. Fourteen years in, I still write the code, the Terraform and the pipelines.
At JFall, the Dutch Java conference: how to spot bad software design with static analysis instead of opinion.
A Java framework for CMS-style web applications with a pluggable, hexagonal architecture. 100+ stars on GitHub.
A CLI tool and service, in Go and Vue, that generates insights about a codebase’s architecture.
I keep a CV for each kind of assignment rather than one long one. Tell me what you’re hiring for and I’ll send you a link to the one that fits.