Wouter in ’t Veld

Experienced Cloud Engineer focused on designing, building, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud solutions for MyParcel using Amazon Web Services .

email:   [email protected]
twitter: @wouterintveld

Experience

Senior Cloud Engineer @ MyParcel June 2023 - Present
Transforming business needs into robust and scalable cloud architectures. Driving innovation and efficiency across all cloud computing efforts within the organization.

Key Contributions:

• Engineering a secure and compliant multi-account AWS environment through the implementation of AWS Control Tower and AWS Organizations, establishing a robust cloud foundation.
• Automated application and infrastructure deployments with the creation of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, enhancing operational efficiency and reliability.
• Advanced the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices among development teams by leveraging AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), streamlining infrastructure management and deployment processes.

Senior Cloud Engineer @ KNMI Aug. 2020 - May 2023
Led the Cloud Engineering team in establishing best practices for cloud deployments. Spearheaded the design of CI/CD frameworks to streamline application deployment on Amazon Web Services.

Key Contributions:

• Coached team members on cloud best practices and led the development of the Cloud Landing Zone, emphasizing code-driven infrastructure setup and automation for deployment pipelines, ensuring fault tolerance, scalability, and high availability.
• Assisted teams in migrating to AWS, resolving application issues, and automating both infrastructure and application deployment processes.
• By facilitating effective communication with stakeholders, the team was able to identify and swiftly integrate innovative technologies and monitoring tools. This collaborative effort directly led to enhancements in the speed, quality, and efficiency of our deployment processes.

Senior Cloud Engineer @ Coolblue Oct. 2015 - Jul. 2020
Pioneered the creation of a developer-centric platform on AWS, facilitating easy application deployment and maintenance.

Key Contributions:

• Designed and maintained the platform’s foundational infrastructure and deployment pipelines, focusing on automation, fault tolerance, scalability, and high availability.
• Guided developers through the migration process, optimizing deployment processes, and leveraging monitoring tools to enhance application and system performance.
• Fostered effective communication across development, operations, and business teams, and evaluated new technologies to recommend platform-agnostic solutions.

Senior System Engineer @ het Oogziekenhuis Rotterdam Oct. 2008 – Sep. 2015
Focused on the technical implementation of ICT projects, system administration, and providing advanced support for medical staff. Acted as a technical liaison with external parties.

Past Experience

• All-round Engineer @ UNC Detachering Mar. 2007 – Dec. 2007
• Implementation Coordinator @ KPN Internet Solutions Dec. 2004 – Mar. 2007
• Migration Coordinator @ KPN Internet Solutions May 2004 – Nov. 2004
• Application Manager @ de Gemeente Dordrecht Dec. 2000 – Mar. 2004
• All-round Engineer @ Futureline Communications Jan. 1999 – Jan. 2000

Technical Experience

Cloud Technologies & Services:

• AWS: Comprehensive expertise across a broad range of services including compute, storage, database, networking, and security (e.g., CDK, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation, CloudFront)

Configuration Management & Automation:

• Ansible, Puppet

Containerization & Orchestration:

• Docker, AWS ECS, AWS Fargate

Scripting & Programming Languages:

• TypeScript, Python, Bash, PowerShell

Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD):

• GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy

Monitoring & Logging:

• New Relic, Datadog, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch

Version Control:

• Git

Operating Systems:

• Linux, Windows

Miscellaneous Tools:

• Vault, Packer

Extra

Languages:

• Fluent in English and Dutch.