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work

My career after graduation, in reverse. Each role has taken me deeper into regulated-enterprise work — from early telecom systems at IBM, to cloud transformation at DXC, to hands-on AWS architecture at Schuberg Philis, to independent consulting today. The companies changed; the pattern didn’t.

  1. Jul 2025 — Dec 2025

    Release & Deployment Management Consultant

    ABN AMRO Clearing Bank
    Designed the target-state release and deployment architecture to replace fragmented delivery models (Bamboo, Jenkins, manual processes). Defined standardised quality, security, and operational guardrails; proposed feature-flag-driven patterns decoupling deployment from release. Architecture approved by CTO and CIO for enterprise-wide adoption.
    AWSGitLabDORA MetricsKPIsCI/CD ModernizationServerlessCDK ConstructsIaC Security
    • Target release architecture approved by CTO and CIO
    • Proposed feature-flag-driven release patterns decoupling deployment from release
    • Led GitLab proof-of-value; leadership approved procurement and phased rollout
  2. Sep 2024 — Jun 2025

    Senior AWS Solutions Engineer / Platform Engineer

    Odido
    Established a standardised CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code platform across a multi-account AWS environment, replacing ad-hoc manual deployments and legacy CodeBuild / CodeDeploy / CodeCommit setups. Built serverless governance (resource tagging from ServiceNow CMDB) and a central security logging pipeline normalising telemetry into OCSF.
    AWSTerraformIaC TransformationCode PipelinesCI/CDDataFinOpsServiceNowOCSFLog ForensicsLog AnalysisAqua SecurityTrivy
    • Standardised IaC + CI/CD across multi-account AWS, replacing legacy Code* services
    • Built a serverless ServiceNow-CMDB-integrated tagging solution for cost allocation and governance
    • Centralised security logging pipeline normalising cloud + Kubernetes + CI/CD logs into OCSF
  3. Jun 2021 — Jul 2024

    AWS Cloud Solutions Architect

    Schuberg Philis
    Consulting role delivering hands-on AWS architecture and platform engineering for enterprise customers in regulated, mission-critical environments: Enexis, Centraal Boekhuis, de Volksbank, LeasePlan. Designed landing zones, re-architected EKS platforms, built secure data ingestion pipelines, and led AWS migration programmes.
    AWSControl TowerLanding ZonesMigrations (Rehost/Replatform)TerraformTerraform CloudAnsibleGitLabGitHub ActionsKubernetesApache KafkaApache AirflowAWS GlueSageMakerJupyter NotebooksParquetGrafanaSustainability / Carbon FootprintData EngineeringMission-Critical Engineering
    • Designed + implemented AWS Landing Zone (Control Tower, GitLab, Terraform Cloud, Okta SSO) with WAR-validated readiness
    • Re-architected a large multi-domain EKS platform into a resilient multi-cluster setup with ArgoCD-based delivery
    • Built a secure AWS data ingestion platform on ECS + Lambda + S3 replacing a commercial solution
    • Migrated Citrix workloads from on-premises to AWS with hardened Windows AMIs
  4. Jul 2018 — May 2021

    Senior AWS DevOps / Solutions Engineer

    Mirabeau (Cognizant)
    Hands-on AWS delivery for large-scale e-commerce customers: EKS migrations, reusable Terraform foundations, and operational enablement through observability tooling and capacity planning for peak events.
    AWSEKSECSTerraformAnsiblePuppetHelmOpenSearchGrafanaPrometheusAzureEvent-Driven ArchitecturesWell-Architected ReviewsCost OptimizationSLA ManagementAlerting / On-call
    • Led multi-phase migrations of IBM Sterling OMS from on-prem to AWS EKS for large e-commerce clients
    • Designed reusable AWS foundations (VPC, EKS, ALB, EC2, RDS) in Terraform with Ansible-based hardening
    • Built a centralised observability platform (OpenSearch, New Relic, Prometheus) and led right-sizing during peak events
  5. May 2015 — Jan 2018

    Senior Software Engineer

    DXC Technology
    Cloud transformation for large enterprise customers in banking and insurance. Led application discovery and assessment activities to identify refactor, re-architect, and rehost strategies; designed microservices architectures on Docker, OpenShift, and AWS.
    OpenStackMicroservicesDockerJenkins
    • Led application discovery + assessment for large cloud migration programmes
    • Designed microservices architectures on Docker / OpenShift / AWS
  6. Jan 2010 — May 2015

    Software Developer

    IBM India
    Designed, developed, and maintained high-performance telecom mediation platforms in C and C++ on UNIX/Linux for global service providers. Owned performance, availability, and scalability of mission-critical applications.
    C++UnixLinuxSVN
    • Owned performance, availability, and scalability of mission-critical telecom mediation platforms
    • Contributed to modernisation and re-engineering of legacy C/C++ systems