Eric Nieuwenhuijsen
CISO & VP Engineering - Cloud Platform & Operations
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolEric Nieuwenhuijsen is a seasoned cloud and security leader with a decade of hands-on experience bridging software engineering, DevOps, and platform operations. Currently CISO & VP Engineering for Cloud Platform & Operations, he has led major cloud migrations, SOC2 control design, and FinOps initiatives while managing large engineering and support organizations. His background as a developer and systems engineer gives him a rare ability to write the "glue code" that automates self-service and reduces operational toil across complex distributed systems. Eric combines practical boots-on-the-ground leadership with strategic architecture thinking, applying Conway's Law to align org structure and software design for measurable efficiency gains. Based in Leiden, he’s known for driving innovation rather than hiding behind best practices and for translating regulatory and reliability requirements into scalable, testable platform solutions.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Information Sciences, Master's Degree, Information Sciences at Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamGymnasium, Gymnasium at Bonaventuracollege MariënpoelstraatComputer Science, Computer Science at Universiteit Leiden
English, Dutch
Github Skills (57)
kubernetes10
docker10
jenkins-api-plugin10
graph10
terraform10
go10
agent10
jenkins-plugin10
jenkins10
remoting10
mesos9
hashicorp9
aws-vpn9
sdk9
aws9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
enieuw/ansible-kubectl
Jan 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
enieuw/k8s
Feb 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 7 months
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