Senior Azure Cloud Architect · Netherlands

One step ahead in Azure sovereignty.

Helping European organizations run regulated and critical workloads on Microsoft Azure — from sovereign landing zones in the public cloud to fully disconnected Azure Local environments.

About

Regulation meets architecture

I've spent more than fifteen years in IT, the last stretch as a Senior Azure Cloud Architect designing enterprise platforms for organizations in Europe — currently from the Netherlands, at the center of the European digital sovereignty conversation.

My work focuses on Microsoft Sovereign Cloud, the EU Data Boundary, and Azure Local with disconnected operations — the scenarios where data, operations, and control must stay inside your own boundaries.

Focus areas

What I work on

Microsoft Sovereign Cloud

Sovereign Public Cloud, EU Data Boundary, customer-controlled encryption, and the decision framework between public, private, and partner-operated models.

Azure Local & disconnected operations

Running Azure with a fully on-premises control plane — architecture, identity, PKI, and lifecycle for classified, regulated, and isolated environments.

Enterprise landing zones

Sovereign landing zones, policy-as-code governance, and the platform engineering that keeps regulated Azure estates compliant and operable.

Sovereign migrations

Moving regulated workloads into the EU Data Boundary and migrating VMware estates to Azure Local — assessment, wave planning, and landing zone readiness.