Tech Lead and Reliability Engineer The Netherlands
Tech Lead and Reliability Engineer with 15+ years of experience delivering scalable, secure infrastructure across startups and enterprise environments. I lead by example, drive platform and DevEx improvements, and help teams adopt cloud-native, reliable systems through automation, observability, and a strong DevOps mindset.
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Just Eat Takeaway, via Xebia
I am building an ML and Data platform on top of Kubernetes, extending its APIs with custom resources and operators that abstract away cloud and third-party services such as VertexAI, SageMaker, MLflow, Amazon Glue, and Flink. The platform includes a control-plane API, an interactive frontend, an SDK for programmatic integration, and a kubectl-style CLI, providing data and ML teams with a self-service experience across AWS and GCP.
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DSM-Firmenich, via Xebia
I architected and implemented a continuous compliance monitoring platform for ~100 AWS accounts against well-known security benchmarks and the AWS Well-Architected framework. I built the deployment architecture on ECS Fargate and Lambda, enabling historical trend tracking so teams can measure remediation impact over time. Tuned controls to reduce false-positive noise and focus engineering attention on actual risk.
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Dutch Railways (NS), via Xebia
I enabled the team building NS's mission-critical, multi-region Azure landing zone. I was involved in architectural and strategic decisions while ensuring platform scalability and resilience. I worked with platform stakeholders and internal customers to operate and monitor their services, ran incident response exercises, conducted chaos engineering experiments, and helped define onboarding and support processes. I actively advocated for platform engineering, DevOps practices, and improvements to developer experience across the organization.
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Dutch Railways (NS), via Xebia
I helped build a self-service container platform using AKS and Azure. One of the major successes was implementing and migrating a cloud-agnostic, mission-critical Harbor registry, one of the largest multi-region, multi-cloud instances, into the new platform architecture and landing zones in 9 months. This platform provides customers with reusable components and golden paths to build and run secure, reliable, and scalable services. Observability shipped, with an OpenTelemetry Collector and auto-instrumentation so teams emitted consistent traces and metrics by default.
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Xebia
Hands-on consulting across SRE and platform engineering initiatives. Engagements include multi-cloud Kubernetes (AWS, GCP, Azure), IaC building blocks, large-scale migrations, compliance automation on ECS/Lambda, and observability implementations. I focus on delivery first, and on improving how teams work along the way.
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Shypple
I designed and deployed new infrastructure, migrated legacy workloads to GKE, and led the rollout of CI/CD pipelines, Helm packages, and platform-wide Datadog monitoring. I improved platform resilience and agility by consolidating CI/CD on CircleCI and implementing automated unit/e2e testing, as well as supply chain security. These efforts raised platform availability from 99.8% to 99.99%. I also implemented regular pen tests, disaster recovery procedures, and infrastructure-as-code to ensure robust, secure, and scalable operations.
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AloPeyk
I led two cross-functional teams while coordinating with others to manage infrastructure across on-prem and cloud (GCP). I successfully reduced infrastructure costs by 40% by planning and executing a migration of ~300 monolithic VMs to Kubernetes microservices in a hybrid architecture. Before transitioning to the cloud, I redesigned our virtualization layer (Proxmox) to ensure GCP compatibility. My work covered everything from CI/CD and DevOps toolchains to observability, high availability, and performance tuning.
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AloPeyk
I implemented HAProxy as a load balancer and API gateway, scaling traffic up to 500K RPM. I also built fully automated GitLab CI pipelines that cut deployment time from a full day to under an hour, including QA gates and approval steps. I managed infrastructure across two data centers: backup, patching, monitoring, and scaling. I also operated clustered services such as MongoDB, Redis, and RabbitMQ, ensuring high availability and reliability.
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Pasargad Electronic Payment
I reduced the ops team's workload by 30% by automating server provisioning and configuration with Ansible. I also cut critical infrastructure deployment time from nearly a month to just a few hours by implementing GitLab CI pipelines. This helped accelerate agile delivery, improve consistency, and reduce human error in the production process.
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Pasargad Electronic Payment
I implemented Zabbix for comprehensive infrastructure monitoring and maintained internal tools like JFrog Artifactory, SonarQube, GitLab, Jira, and the ELK stack. I led the migration from legacy version control systems (SVN, TFSVC) to Git, establishing scalable branching and tagging strategies and training developers on modern workflows.
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Various companies
Supported telecom and enterprise infrastructure, with a focus on Linux systems, 2G/3G VAS platforms, and automation using tools like Zabbix, Ansible, LDAP, DNS, MySQL, and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Redmine).
Designed and deployed Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions and private datacenter automation for in-house delivery.
Developed smart home automation apps and early mobile software using Windows CE, C#, and socket programming.
Contributed to cross-functional projects in telecom (MTN Irancell, Rahnema) and embedded systems, gaining strong foundations in infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and production operations.