Summary
Patrick Smits is a Head of Engineering and enterprise architect with over a decade of experience designing and delivering cloud-first solutions on the Microsoft stack, specializing in Azure, .NET Core, Microsoft 365 and service-oriented architectures. He combines hands-on development (C#, WebAPI, WCF/REST, SQL Azure) with strategic architecture work—driving integration between on-prem and cloud systems and shaping Big Data pipelines using Azure Synapse and Power BI visualizations. As founder of PureLogic and former Enterprise Architect at BDO, he blends consultancy, team leadership and implementation, having led and mentored multidisciplinary Agile teams of developers. Patrick is also focused on reliable delivery through automated deployments (Azure DevOps, PowerShell, Docker, Kubernetes) and identity-driven applications using Azure AD, OAuth and IdentityServer. He has a practical knack for translating proofs of concept into reference architectures and standards that scale across enterprises. Based in North Brabant, he uniquely pairs deep Microsoft platform expertise with entrepreneurial experience running his own consultancy.
9 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
HTS (Hogere Informatica)
English, Dutch