Head of DevOps

• Jun 2022 - Present

Lead Cloud Security Architect

• Feb 2022 - May 2022

* Driving the cloud security and compliance track* Key stakeholder and implementer towards ISAE 3402 certification

Lead Cloud Architect

• Aug 2020 - Jan 2022

* Key implementer of organization cloud journey towards Azure* Kubernetes implementation, with focus on No-Ops principles and automation.* Strong focus on DevOps principles with regards to automation, monitoring and delivery.* Infrastructure responsible, roadmap planning, architectural design, with strong focus on automation.

Senior Software Engineer

• Mar 2019 - Jul 2020

* Senior DevOps role, with focus on maturing the technical landscape of the organization. * Strong focus on building cloud native and automated solutions within AWS * Kubernetes infrastructure (built and maintained with CF, majority of diversified spot instances for cost efficiency and resilience) * Senior architect with cross team collaboration to ensure best practise utilisation of cloud resources in a microservice landscape * Point of contact for thirdparty cloud and SaaS vendors * Security automation (RBAC, AWS parameterstore, Bitwarden CLI, docker hardening) Show less

Team Lead

• Aug 2018 - Feb 2019

• Key leader and subject matter expert on DevOps practices and components and architecture on the Amazon Web Services platform. • Leading the establishment and maturation of DevOps internal practices, ensure documentation is up to date and shared with stakeholders. • Implementing solutions for automation, CI/CD pipelines and orchestration. • Application Security initiatives: Building security in as part of solutions to adhere to internal and external compliance levels. • Head of security and compliance, with a reference to CISO in Belgium: Privacy and GDPR compliancy. Point of contact in security related projects and issues, follow up on incidents and ensure that security news is acted upon appropriately. Show less

Cloud Architect

• Jan 2016 - Jul 2018

• Responsible for cloud governance, cost optimization and compliance (with KPI to directly demonstrate an increased usage of Amazon, increased productivity and better control with expenses). • Write documentation and guidelines for use of cloud based resources, and working with development teams around these to ensure a streamlined workflow against AWS. • Support the development of cloud based strategies, frameworks, best practices and design patterns to best utilize the solutions provided by Amazon. • Guide new projects and initiatives to improve resilience and scalability (while being cost efficient and not compromising on security). • Cross-team and cross-department collaboration to streamline and optimize best practices in cloud architecture. • Introduce end to end architectural strategies, standards, processes and tools for solution design, with the purpose of alleviating development teams and thus increasing productivity. • Point of contact for Amazon and third-party SaaS vendors in regards with selection of best candidate for our business cases, due diligence, solution description, contract negotiation, and follow-up. • Implement solutions and tools - guiding teams on CI/CD processes, automation and immutable infrastructure best practices. Show less

Cloud Architect

• Aug 2015 - Dec 2015

Backend Solution Architect

• Mar 2014 - Jul 2015

My main roles as a backend architect were:Ensuring that the best architectural decisions are applied while following industry best practices. Ensuring that the best technological decisions are made when it comes to implementation of new features.Overseeing design specifications as well as the code written to ensure that any issues are dealt with as early as possible. To solve that I worked closely with Product Owners (PO's), stakeholders and the individual developer implementing the solution. Defining the design and coding principles for the backend developers to adhere to. Making sure that all stakeholders were aligned with the roadmap for cross project solutions.Participating in all stages of business critical solutions, heavily utilizing AWS as cloud provider. Show less

Fullstack Developer

• Aug 2013 - Feb 2014

Technical Lead

• Jan 2013 - Oct 2015

Team Lead

• Jun 2012 - Feb 2013

With Scrum as an inspirational source of management method, my daily tasks consisted partly of planning and prioritizing tasks (and bugs), delegation to team members, hosting daily standups with team as well as management, and following up with management to ensure that roadmap is followed and planned ahead. Cross department communication, between PO's, stakeholders and management, and, naturally, the individual developerProviding transparency towards team members regarding upcoming tasks, technologies, process changed and focus areas, and towards stakeholders, PO's and management regarding time spent within the team, internal focus areas and overhead.Perform long-term (3 months) estimations and planning together with the other team leads and management in order to maintain a prioritized backlog. Show less

Fullstack Developer

• Feb 2012 - Jun 2012

Implementing key backend functionality to support the frontend, or entire new server solutions that did not have a graphical representational layer. Tasks were mostly implemented in C# .NET, asp.NET using Linq To Sql and entity framework as Object Relation Mappers (ORM), however other tasks running on different platforms (MovieStarPlanet has a very heterogenous server environment) required implementation in Java, php, javascript (jquery), and Erlang. MovieStarPlanet is for most applications using Microsoft Windows Servers, with IIS as the preferred application server. Show less

Consultant

• 2010 - Feb 2012

Primary role is to perform consulting tasks within Netcompanys business areas. Delivering high quality implementations that met agreed functional and technical requirements. Ensuring that the customer was kept in the development loop and consistently providing us with valuable business knowledge feedback to ensure that the end product matches their expectations and requirements. Keywords: SOA, Oracle, C#.NET, ASP.NET, Java EE, Jenkins Primary role is to perform consulting tasks within Netcompanys business areas. Delivering high quality implementations that met agreed functional and technical requirements. Ensuring that the customer was kept in the development loop and consistently providing us with valuable business knowledge feedback to ensure that the end product matches their expectations and requirements. Keywords: SOA, Oracle, C#.NET, ASP.NET, Java EE, Jenkins

Web Specialist

• Sep 2008 - Apr 2010

Innovation focal and production lead for the Scandinavian web portal for small and medium sized businesses (smb) partners. Beyond following up on campaigns and the continous maintenance of the sites I developed new web solutions to improve customer experience and make the work easier for the web team. As a project manager for the web team through the project tracking portal, I ensured that deadlines were met, delegated and tracked tasks outsourced to the Bratislava web team and revieved solutions against the workflow guidelines and quality standards. I assisted internal clients and external bureaues with implementation and integration, compliency towards web development guidelines and QA. Show less