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Principal Architect | AI Cloud Strategist | EMEA

Staff Resident Solutions Architect · HashiCorp

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · Valencia, Spain (remote)

Operate in a forward-deployed model, embedded with enterprise customers for extended engagements, defining use cases, validating solutions, and driving product adoption.
Serve as a strategic advisor to enterprise platform leaders and CxOs across EMEA and APJ, driving large-scale cloud transformation initiatives.
Design and deliver bespoke integrations and working demos for strategic customers, translating complex requirements into production-ready solutions.
Support the design of AI-ready platform foundations, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, agentic workflows, and LLM-enabled automation patterns.
Actively shape platform strategy and developer enablement practices in highly regulated, multi-cloud environments.
Lead executive-level engagements to align security, governance, and cost-efficiency with technical platform roadmaps.
Architect multi-cloud platforms with embedded policy-as-code, secrets management, and automated provisioning using SaaS and on-prem self-managed tools.
Act as a trusted advisor and escalation point for regional Professional Services teams on complex delivery engagements.
Drive customer adoption by delivering onboarding programs, 30+ technical workshops, and scalable enablement assets (public blog posts, documentation, and enablement playbooks).

Sept 2021 – Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos · EMEA (remote)

Acted as a trusted advisor to platform and C-level stakeholders across highly regulated industries (finance, banking, and insurance) in EMEA.
Led cloud-native transformation strategies for public and private cloud using Mendix and Kubernetes, aligning technology modernisation with business and compliance objectives.
Guided CxO and VP-level stakeholders through low-code platform modernisation decisions, ensuring alignment with enterprise cloud strategy.
Defined reference architectures for secure, regulated Kubernetes environments across Azure, AWS, and OpenShift.
Enabled developer and platform teams through onboarding, governance controls, and cloud platform adoption best practices.
Led technical engagements from pre-sales to delivery, acting as the single point of contact for architecture and execution.
Mentored internal teams and championed technical leadership, helping scale cloud competency across the organisation.
Produced high-quality documentation, playbooks, and architectural deliverables.

Sept 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs · The Netherlands

Led cloud strategy and solution design for a major insurance provider in The Netherlands, focusing on secure adoption of serverless and event-driven architectures on AWS and Azure.
Designed and implemented serverless event-driven workloads (Lambda, Azure Functions).
Led migration of legacy apps to public cloud, ensuring compliance and performance.
Automated deployments using Terraform and GitHub Actions.
Built monitoring and observability pipelines using the ELK stack.

Sept 2017 – Sept 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Contractor · New Zealand

Delivered PaaS architecture and multi-tenant cloud solutions for enterprise customers across New Zealand and Australia.
Led on-prem to cloud migrations using IBM Power Systems, AWS, and Docker.
Automated infrastructure with Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible.

Dec 2015 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Contractor · New Zealand

Led a critical infrastructure migration to IBM private cloud for regulated enterprise environments.

Jun 2012 – Nov 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos · New Zealand

Reduced outages through patching automation and led design of a cross-DC DR cluster for a major energy provider.

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