Summary
Ariën Holthuizen is a Cloud Platform Owner and seasoned DevOps professional with 16 years of experience designing, building and running resilient cloud-native platforms across AWS, GCP and Kubernetes. He has delivered mission-critical infrastructure and security tooling—from Vault and Terraform-based environments to policy enforcement with OpenPolicyAgent—at enterprises like Shell, ING, De Nederlandsche Bank and now Nedap. Comfortable as a hands-on engineer and architect, he repeatedly leads greenfield projects, onboards applications into secure platforms, and keeps systems humming under pressure. Based in Utrecht, he practices pragmatic automation and observability, and prefers being contacted for opportunities rather than unsolicited recruiter outreach. An inclination for simplicity and reliability underpins his work: build it, keep it running, and only refill the magic smoke when necessary.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
VWO Natuur & Techniek, VWO Natuur & Techniek at Haarlemmermeer Lyceum
English, Dutch, German