People describe me as social, not too serious and hard working. I like meeting new people and getting to try out new technologies is one of my favorite things to do. I never take instructions blindly and will always ask questions about why I'm doing the given task and if it's the most efficient / smartest move to make.
I am a strong believer in the power of teamwork and collaboration, and I enjoy working with others to achieve common goals. I am also a creative thinker and problem-solver, and I am always looking for new and innovative ways to approach challenges.
Lead Platform Engineer (Freelance)
Tomorrowland | 2026 - Present
Maintain and improve the Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure powering Tomorrowland's digital platforms, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance during high-traffic events.
Own and evolve the CI/CD pipelines, driving faster, safer, and more consistent software delivery across engineering teams.
Lead the observability strategy, implementing metrics, logging, and tracing to provide deep insight into system health and accelerate incident response.
Drive platform security initiatives, hardening cloud and Kubernetes workloads and embedding security best practices throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Senior DevOps Engineer (Freelance)
Hootsuite Inc. | 2024 - 2025
Architect end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and automation strategies to streamline software delivery and improve reliability.
Design cloud-native architectures leveraging services from AWS, ensuring high availability, cost-efficiency, and performance at scale.
Evaluate and implement DevOps tools, frameworks, and workflows, aligning them with organizational goals and evolving tech landscapes.
Mentor engineers and lead technical workshops to foster a DevOps culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Medior Cloud Solutions Architect
ACA Group | 2021 - 2024
Acted as a bridge between development and operations, enabling faster, more reliable software delivery through automation and DevOps tooling.
Designed and deployed scalable cloud infrastructure, supporting application workloads with a focus on security, performance, and cost optimization.
Implemented CI/CD pipelines tailored to team needs, integrating testing, code quality, and deployment automation for streamlined delivery.
Guided teams on DevOps principles, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and continuous improvement leading to increased reliability and developer autonomy.
Junior Cloud Engineer
Aviobook Inc. | 2020 - 2021
Daily tasks include working with AWS, Ansible, Terraform, Rancher, NewRelic
Delivered a QA environment which can be automatically deployed with the exact config / data of a customer of choosing. (Made this possible with AWX so the QA team could easily operate this)
In charge of automated upgrades of the Aviobook product onto the servers using Ansible
Automated the setup of new customers with Ansible / Terraform
(Internship) Automation Engineer
Cegeka Inc. | 2019 - 2019
Automated the implementation of firewall rules with Ansible of different firewall vendors: Fortigate, PfSense, Checkpoint. Made an integration with their ticketing system so no human interactions were required.
(Student job) Cloud Engineer
Gluo Inc. | 2019 - 2019
Researched tools for Gluo to use when recruiting new customers. (Spinnaker, Helm, GCP Cloud Run, Cloud CDN, .. )
Made a fully working prototype of a KubeEdge Cluster using RPI's.
Bachelor's in Computer Science
PXL Hogeschool | 2016 - 2019
Graduated with honors, with a specialization in systems, networking and automation.