I help companies manage, automate, secure and future-proof their cloud environments, from architecture to production.
Technologies I work with
I believe in the courage to change. The name "Dare 2 Change IT" (D2C-IT) reflects my attitude: I embrace change, in myself and in the fast-changing world of IT. Change is the constant in this field.
As a freelance Cloud DevOps Engineer, I help companies modernize their infrastructure and speed up their development processes. With extensive experience in AWS, Azure and on-premises environments, I build reliable, scalable and cost-efficient cloud environments.
I work hands-on across the entire journey: from architecture design and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) to CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI and Azure DevOps. My approach combines technical depth with a focus on collaboration and knowledge transfer.
Active in the Netherlands & Belgium: on site, remote or hybrid.
From cloud migration to fully automated pipelines. I build the infrastructure that helps your team move faster.
On-premises to cloud-native architecture. From landing zones and account structures to full workload migrations and management on AWS and Azure.
Automate releases from commit to production. Pipeline design, deployment strategies and monitoring integrations for faster and more reliable deploys.
Reusable, modular infrastructure described as code. State management, drift detection and version-controlled environments that roll out identically every time. Terraform and Ansible are my specialty, but ARM, Bicep and CloudFormation are also within reach.
From Dockerfile to running container in production. Containerization with Docker and Podman, including image management, networking and CI/CD integration, on Amazon ECS, EKS, Fargate and Azure Kubernetes Service.
Windows and Azure automation with robust PowerShell scripts and modules. Infrastructure management, reporting and compliance tooling that runs in the background every night. Besides this PowerShell specialization, I also offer a course that helps beginners get started with PowerShell.
An overview of the technologies I deploy daily for client projects.
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Terraform
Ansible
HashiCorp Vault
GitLab CI
Azure DevOps
Docker
Podman
AWS Fargate
AWS EKS
Datadog
Splunk
PowerShell
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