🎯 Enterprise & Cloud Architect | AI Architecture | SRE Engineering Leader | TOGAF 10 Foundation | VMware vExpert | Microsoft MVP
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
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With over 18 years of global IT experience, I've held pivotal roles at VMware Inc, adidas AG, Amazon, and currently at ING Netherlands. I connect business strategy, enterprise architecture, cloud platforms, reliability engineering, and emerging AI capabilities to help organizations modernize with clarity and control. I am an architect who builds: I turn principles, standards, and guardrails into practical automation that teams can use.
My journey encompasses:
- 🏢 Enterprise Architecture: Translating business and technology strategy into target architectures, roadmaps, standards, and actionable transformation plans.
- 🤖 AI Architecture & Enablement: Exploring practical applications of generative AI, machine learning platforms, AI governance, data foundations, and responsible adoption patterns.
- ☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture: Designing scalable, resilient systems across on-premises and cloud platforms.
- 🔧 Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Implementing SRE principles to enhance system reliability, observability, and performance.
- 🛡️ Conformity & Guardrails: Building conformity bots and automated guardrails for SRE and AI practices, helping teams detect drift, enforce standards, and improve operational confidence.
- 🧰 Hands-on Engineering: Prototyping and delivering working tools, automation, and reference implementations rather than stopping at strategy or diagrams.
- 🤝 Pre-Sales & Technical Leadership: Bridging business needs with technical solutions, leading cross-functional teams.
- 🏢 Data Center Modernization: Overhauling legacy systems to align with modern infrastructure standards.
At my current role, I build practical engineering solutions at the intersection of architecture, SRE, and AI:
- Conformity bots that assess environments and services against defined architecture and operational standards.
- SRE guardrails that support reliability, observability, consistency, and policy-driven operations.
- AI guardrails that encourage responsible, secure, and governed adoption of AI capabilities.
- Working prototypes and automation that turn architectural intent into repeatable engineering workflows.
This hands-on approach helps me communicate effectively with both executive stakeholders and engineering teams, from strategy and governance through implementation.
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📐 TOGAF Enterprise Architecture Foundation (Version 10) Certified in the TOGAF Standard, 10th Edition foundation concepts and terminology.
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🏅 VMware vExpert – 11x Honoree (Since 2014)
Acknowledged for significant contributions to the VMware community over a decade. -
🌐 Microsoft MVP
Recognized for active participation and support in Microsoft technical communities. -
🎤 Speaker at VMworld & Industry Events
Sharing insights on cloud architecture, SRE, and DevOps transformations. -
✍️ Blogger at myitblog.in
Writing on topics like cloud-native architectures, automation, and operational best practices.
Selected original public repositories that demonstrate my range from AI architecture and secure platforms to cloud automation and hands-on infrastructure engineering.
| Project | What it demonstrates |
|---|---|
| binarybucks-agentic-banking | A Python, Streamlit, and Google Gemini multi-agent banking support demo with account, risk, and service workflows. |
| cloudy-with-a-chance-of-ai | Infrastructure patterns for deploying an AI agent in a private, secured VPC environment. |
| service-workbench-on-aws-mainline | An AWS-based trusted research environment focused on self-service workspaces, security, governance, and cost control. |
| vic_homelab | Practical VMware Integrated Containers exercises that show hands-on platform engineering. |
| ansible-examples-master | Automation examples that demonstrate repeatable configuration and operational engineering. |
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I write about enterprise AI adoption, AI-ready platforms, cloud architecture, reliability, governance, and the practical trade-offs behind modern technology decisions on Medium Blogs.