Zibber is a SaaS startup moving from founder-led to structured operations. I joined as its first IT Director with a clear mandate: build the structure the department needed to grow. I reorganized the way of working and the operating model and implemented an agile way of working. I introduced a roadmap with a quarterly horizon and a quarterly cadence, defined goals for the department and brought focus to the organization. As a result, projects that had been stalled for a long time were completed, partly thanks to the new structure. I grew the development team from 2 to 5 FTE, realigned the Product Owner role to support all of IT and introduced a new support process, including staffing. I strongly improved team culture, with a focus on ownership and communication, and I am part of the daily management team. Since October 2026 I am also interim responsible for Customer Support, where I help define a new operating model. With the foundation in place and the team running on its own cadence, my focus is shifting from building structure to the next transformation challenge.

Head of Creative Tech (Feb 2025 – Feb 2026) · Operations Manager AWS Netherlands (Mar 2024 – Jan 2025) · Principal Solutions Architect (Sep 2022 – Feb 2024)

At Devoteam I grew from Principal Solutions Architect to Operations Manager AWS Netherlands and Head of Creative Tech. My focus shifted from technical advisory work to organizational leadership, while I stayed close to cloud-native technology and modern development practices.

As Head of Creative Tech, I launched a new software development focused business unit, defining its strategic direction and building the team capacity to deliver full-stack and cloud-native solutions.

As Operations Manager AWS Netherlands, I was responsible for Devoteam’s AWS business and managed more than thirty engineers across the software and cloud engineering units, building the capabilities to support large-scale customer migrations.

As Principal Solutions Architect, I guided customers through modernization challenges, from rethinking legacy application deployments to adopting Kubernetes and OpenShift. I advised on technical strategy, supported presales and coached engineers, and led initiatives such as the migration from a monolithic integration platform (Tibco) to a cloud-native, code-first microservices integration layer.

As CTO and managing partner at Scriptix, I was responsible for the complete technology strategy and delivery of our multi-tenant SaaS platform for speech-to-text services. I built the entire product on Kubernetes and Python, ensuring scalability, resilience, and maintainability. Beyond engineering leadership, I steered product development, roadmap definition, and customer solutions while managing our development team. Scriptix gave me end-to-end responsibility for building a modern SaaS business: from infrastructure and DevOps to customer experience and company strategy. This role was a defining step in my career, proving my ability to architect, build, and operate a full cloud-native SaaS solution.

At Fox-IT I helped replace the company’s legacy monolithic Cyber Threat Management platform with a new microservices-based solution following a single-tenant architecture. I designed and scaled the infrastructure for CTMp, built on containers and Docker Swarm at a time when Kubernetes was still in its infancy. This work required deep collaboration between development and operations, ensuring the new platform was secure, compliant, and ready for growth. I later led infrastructure work for PCI compliance, steering Fox-IT through complex regulatory requirements while maintaining operational stability.

My time at Net Ground (later acquired by Internedservices) was pivotal in my career. While initially focused on secure Linux-based hosting platforms, this was my first role where I stepped into presales and solution architecture. I worked closely with customers to design high-availability managed services and guided them through strategic IT decisions.

It was here that I learned the importance of operational excellence and customer intimacy, ensuring platforms not only functioned but delivered true business value. I began bridging technical depth with strategic advisory, effectively moving from a purely engineering role into a solutions-oriented architect role. The customer-facing experience I gained at Net Ground set the foundation for my later success as an architect and leader.

At PostNL (formerly Cendris) I drove major datacenter transitions: consolidating facilities, decommissioning outdated infrastructure, and migrating workloads to Linux and VMware environments. I implemented Puppet to automate deployments, practicing infrastructure-as-code long before it became industry standard, and migrated critical applications while ensuring operational stability.

Fun fact I was part of the pioneering team that deployed the very first AWS services within PostNL, at a time when cloud adoption was still in its infancy. The project was so successful that PostNL decided to go all-in on cloud and has since become one of the largest AWS customers in the Netherlands. This experience gave me an early start in cloud transformation and showed me how impactful a bold architectural vision can be on an entire enterprise’s direction.

Before 2010 I worked in IT engineering and Linux administration roles at organizations including Philips, EDS, and MADS. These roles developed my foundations in Linux, networking, and hosting environments, skills that I later expanded into solution architecture and modernization leadership.