Forward Deployed Engineer · Cloud & AI Architect
I get enterprise fintech customers live on cloud and AI platforms, and keep them running.
LinkedIn · Blog · Free to work in the Netherlands, no sponsorship needed
| With customers | On the platform | With AI |
|---|---|---|
| Scope, design and deliver implementations for fintech customers on Azure and AWS | Kubernetes, Terraform and GitOps, with policy as code (OPA) at every layer | RAG, multi-agent workflows and AI agents that make triage and delivery faster |
| Work directly with customer IT and security teams on integrations and custom needs | Observability with OpenTelemetry and the LGTM stack | Software supply chain security: SBOMs, signed images, SLSA provenance |
| Support sales and product with solution design and technical answers | Built to be efficient, sustainable and cost-effective | MLOps and data platforms for regulated environments |
| 30+ | fintech customer implementations delivered |
| 50+ | mission-critical applications migrated, with zero downtime and 30% lower cost |
| 1M+ | users on a platform running at 99.9% uptime |
| 3 days → 1 hour | delivery time after automating entitlement checks and deployment |
| MTTD −60% · MTTR −45% | after rolling out OpenTelemetry and LGTM observability |
Also: ArgoCD · Flux · Istio · Helm · OPA · OpenTelemetry · Sigstore · Databricks · Kafka · Airflow · dbt · LangChain · LangGraph
| Project | What it shows |
|---|---|
| databricks-iac | Terraform for a multi-team Azure Databricks workspace: Unity Catalog, cluster policies, RBAC, CI |
| monitoring | LGTM stack with OpenTelemetry on Kubernetes: traces, metrics, logs and log-to-trace correlation |
| argocd-crossplane-gcp-lab | GitOps lab with ArgoCD on a local kind cluster |
| corep-governance-pipeline | EU COREP regulatory reporting pipeline with Airflow and dbt |
| dutch-practice | Browser app to practise spoken Dutch with an AI partner |
I write about platform engineering, regulation and AI at techcoherence.com. A good place to start: Software supply chain security, explained with a car factory.
I'm open to Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect and Customer Engineering roles, especially where cloud, data and AI meet customers. Message me on LinkedIn.