Dannyย Steenman
Founder at Towards the Cloud
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDanny Steenman is a founder and seasoned cloud engineer with 10+ years building secure, compliant AWS foundations and developer-friendly IaC for enterprises. He specializes in multi-account landing zones, AWS CDK and automation that turns months of platform work into days while delivering 96%+ CIS/AWS security compliance and 20โ30% cost savings. Former Principal Cloud Consultant and Platform Engineer, he has led large migrations, built internal CDK starter kits adopted by teams, and automated cross-account operations reflected in his aws-toolbox repos. Based in Amsterdam, he blends hands-on scripting (Bash, Python/Boto3) with architecture and people leadership, and is known for owning outcomesโnot just recommending fixesโso customers regain developer velocity without sacrificing governance.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English
Github Skills (11)
bash10
boto10
aws10
devops10
python10
aws-cli10
amazon-web-services9
cloudwatch8
aws-cdk6
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dannysteenman/aws-toolbox
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
A collection of tools and python scripts to automate repetitive tasks on AWS Cloud
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 43 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Danny focused on developing tools and scripts for automating tasks on AWS Cloud. Contributions included the creation of bash scripts for managing EC2 instances, including connecting to instances within an Auto Scaling group. They also implemented Python scripts using Boto3 for multi-account execution, CloudWatch log retention, and tagging secrets. Furthermore, the user added scripts for managing S3 buckets and automating CodePipeline notifications.
lambdagcpaws-clidevopslinux
dannysteenman/aws-cdk-starterkit
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Create and deploy an AWS CDK TypeScript app on your AWS account in less than 5 minutes using GitHub actions!
Contributions:32 reviews, 35 PRs, 149 pushes in 1 year
amazon-web-servicesawsaws-cdkblueprintcdk
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