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Energetic and adaptable team player with excellent communication skills. Highly driven to see tasks through to completion and skilled at building strong relationships with colleagues and customers. Flexible and proactive in tackling challenges, always striving to contribute positively to the team's success.
I like taking ownership of something complex and carrying it all the way through, from the first conversation to a solution running in production. Curious by nature, happy to dive into unfamiliar territory, and I enjoy explaining the technical side in plain language to whoever I'm working with.
Design, build and manage Azure landing zones across ~60 CSP customers, fully in Terraform. Maintain the shared Terraform module library used across all customer environments. Design and operate customer workloads across the Azure stack — AKS, Application Gateway/WAF, Key Vault, private endpoints and private DNS, VPN and firewall, Backup, Automation, Function Apps and Policy enforcement. CSP/Partner Center operations: subscription lifecycle, tenant transfers, billing visibility and licensing. Deliver POCs from proposal to production, such as certificate automation, GitOps rollout with ArgoCD, custom database monitoring and Azure Front Door for multi-region routing and WAF at the edge. Member of the work/business council.
Tech stack: Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, GitLab, Python, Bash, KQL
Development of new CI/CD pipelines and updating/maintaining existing ones, supporting developers with deployment of code to the (managed) cloud, maintaining the Elastic logging solution and managing the Jira/Confluence pages.
Tech stack: Amazee (hosting), GitLab, Elastic, Python
Set-up, updating and maintaining of AWS EC2 servers (Ubuntu/Debian), migrating live media management portals, DNS and SSL certificate management, VoIP management, Google Workspace management and Jira management.
Tech stack: AWS, Apache, PHP, HAProxy, Ansible, WordPress, Python
Applying security recommendations in the Azure environment, setting up custom websites with Terraform on Azure and AWS, assisting developers with deploying websites and 24/7 emergency shifts for SRE.
Tech stack: AWS, Azure, Terraform, Azure DevOps
Front- and back-end development of the webshop, applying speed optimizations, automating order processing with Bash and PHP, automating email processing with Python, customer service and financial management.
Tech stack: Magento 2, Nginx, PHP, MySQL, Varnish, Python, GitLab
Also: landing zones, Virtual Network Gateway, Key Vault, private endpoints and private DNS, firewall, Automation, Function Apps, Policy enforcement and CSP/Partner Center operations.
Also worked with: AWS, Ansible, ArgoCD, Helm, Windows Server, Elastic/Kibana, Nginx, Apache, HAProxy, PHP, MySQL.
Cum laude (8,63)
Specialization: Cloud Solutions
Minor: Big Data
Feel free to contact me via any of the below channels. References are available on request.
| Name | Platform |
|---|---|
| prive@wouterpaas.nl | |
| watista (Wouter) | GitHub |
| Wouter Paas | |
| wouterpaas | Telegram |