Summary
Veteran web application developer & architect with nearly thirty years of experience with complex business challenges and high availability requirements. Spending the past decade modernizing applications and migrating them to Microsoft Azure.
Career
External Consultant, Devoteam (Belgium) — 02/2021-present
Enabling organizations to transform their existing applications to modernized, cloud native solutions while elevating knowledge and skills of the development teams through workshops and coaching sessions.
Success stories:
- Cloud Migration journey at an international storage facility
- Cloud Adoption at an accredited inspection and certification organization
- Application Modernization Assessment at a governmental institute
- Microsoft Azure infrastructure operation and integration at an utilities company
- Feature configuration at an educational institute
- Cloud architecture design and configuration for an international food chain
- Application Modernization Journey at an inspection and certification organization
- Microsoft Azure adoption, API Management, and DevOps enablement at a national transportation organization
External Consultant, Be-Mobile/4411 (Belgium) — 05/2020-01/2021
Modernizing and elevating quality of the core API solutions while mentoring the teams to improve stability and reliability.
External Consultant, De Lijn (Belgium) — 07/2019-04/2020
Bridging the gap between business, development, operations, security, and QA as DevOps enabler, while providing a robust cloud architecture for their B2B integration requirements. Introduced infrastructure as code to elevate the capabilities of operation teams.
External Consultant, BAS Trucks (Netherlands) — 06/2011-06/2019
Modernized existing ERP and CRM applications while growing development team, enabling fast acceleration for business in changing market conditions and regulations.
Other positions — 1997 - 2011
Available on request
Skills
| Web Technologies | Microsoft Azure | DevOps |
|---|---|---|
| PHP, Perl, Python | App Services, Functions, Logic Apps | CI/CD |
| API, Backend services | API Management | Terraform, Ansible |
| MVC, SOA, Microservices | NSG, Vnet, AGW | TDD, BDD, DDD |
| Docker & Kubernetes | ACR & AKS | Agile, Lean, Kanban |
| OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana | Monitor & Insights | Team Topologies, DORA |