Skills and Capabilities

The following certifications are the most relevant for the recently engaged projects.

CKA Certificate logo 20220228 microsoft certified azure solutions architect expert.1 AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certificate logo  
20140530 Prince2 Practitioner 2013 ITIL V3 ITIL EXPERT        
         

The following overview gives a full overview of my capabilities and hands-on experience gained over the years. Additionally to these skills I strongly believe that business-first (the 'why'), teamwork, an open multi-cultural blameless atmosphere, and 'work hard - play hard' are critical parts of the solution's success.

Special interests go out to be part of the clients’ digital journey and the more complex cloud environments like multi-tenant Kubernetes, multi-region cloud, and new technologies like Big Data and AI/Machine Learning. Ideally where agility, innovation, and ‘continuous everything‘ are integral parts of that journey.

Architecture

Cloud
  • Migration and hybrid
  • Multi cloud, multi-tenant
  • Global solutions
  • Landing zones
  • Well-architected, CAF, …
  • Security and compliance
  • Kubernetes (micro-services)
  • Serverless (nano-services)
  • IaaS, CaaS, PaaS, SaaS, FaaS
  • Cloud as Code (IaC)
DevOps CICD
  • Process and decision alignment
  • Workflow optimization
  • Automation and integration
  • Secure deployment at scale
  • Unit, integration, e2e testing
  • In-place, rolling blue/green, canary
  • Test Driven Development (TDD)
  • Continuous everything
  • Everything as code (IaC)
Service Assurance
  • High availability, auto-scaling
  • Durability, disaster recovery
  • Continuous monitoring
  • Process assessment (ITIL)
(Cyber) Security
  • Cloud Native Security
  • SABSA, NIST
  • ISO 27001, PCI DSS
  • IAM, Federation, Single sign on
  • Encrypt data in transit and at rest

Hands-on

Cloud Infra and DevOps CICD
  • Kubernetes*
  • AWS* **
  • Azure* ** / Azure DevOps
  • HashiCorp Terraform, Terragrunt*
  • HashiCorp Vault, Consul
  • HashiCorp Packer
  • Jenkins
  • GitFlow, GitHub (actions), GitLab (CI)
  • Helm, Kustomization
  • Ansible, Ansible Tower
  • Nexus3
Service Assurance
  • Thanos. Grafana, Prometheus
  • Fluent-bit, Fluentd
  • Jaeger
  • Velero
  • Kubecost
  • Kuberhealthy
  • ElasticSearch
  • Splunk
  • Alerta
(Cyber) Security
  • Consul, Istio
  • Cert-Manager
  • Gatekeeper, OPA
  • Azure Active Directory
  • SSH OTP, PKI, mutual TLS
  • SAML, OAUTH
  • JWT STS
Data Management
  • MySQL, Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL
  • InfluxDB, Neo4J
  • MongoDB
  • Kafka (streams)
  • Databricks
Scripting
  • Python, Bash
  • JavaScript, NodeJS
Systems and Virtualization
  • Linux
  • VMWare, Fusion
  • VirtualBox
  • Vagrant
  • Docker

Management

Service Management
  • IT Service Management (ITIL)
  • IT Service Strategy
  • IT Service Design
  • Risk and Availability
  • Outsourcing
  • Change and Release
  • Continual Service Improvement
Project Management
  • Product Owner (Scrum)
  • Project Manager (Prince2)
  • Project/Tech Lead
  • Coaching
Industry
  • Aviation
  • Service Providers
  • Telco
  • Banking / Finance
  • Enterprise
  • Automotive
  • Medical
  • Public

Soft Skills

Business
  • Networking
    Communication
  • Stakeholder Management
  • IT Consulting
  • Conflict Management
  • Service Oriented
  • Outcome Focused
  • Pre-sales
  • Time Management
  • Presentation Skills
Teams
  • Team Spirit
  • Team Player
  • Communication
  • Creativity
  • Analytic
  • Self Managed
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Fast Learner
  • Open for Changes
  • Eagerness to Learn
  • Technical Writing

*  Core competence, advanced experience.
   Kubernetes                          : Hard multi-tenancy. AAD, multi-cluster, multi-region, on-prem and multi-could integration, service mesh (consul, istio), Calico, Gatekeeper OPA, disaster recovery, monitoring, …

** Public cloud providers offer too many services to list in this section. A subset can be found below. Please ask for more details when desired.
Azure                                       : AKS, native compute (VNET, VM, Azure-Disk, Azure-File), serverless (API Mgt, Functions, Cosmos), Databases, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, IoT Hub, Event Hub/Grid, Databricks, … 
Amazon Web Services           : EKS, ECS, native compute (VPC, EC2, EBS, EFS), serverless (API gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, S3), RDS, Cognito, CloudWatch, Log Analytics, …