Yvo van Zee
Cloud Consultant & AWS Community Builder
AWS Architect, Consultant & Engineer
Experienced Cloud Consultant with over 16 years in IT, who loves helping companies on their cloud journey. Starting in on-premise hosting and infrastructure at Sentia, transitioning to AWS cloud consulting in 2018. From setting up Cloud Centers of Excellence, developing AWS Landing Zones, designing complex network architectures, to building Data Analytics Platforms on AWS. Everything based on Infrastructure as Code with CI/CD in mind. As a proud 6x certified AWS Cloud Consultant and AWS Community Builder, gathering and sharing knowledge runs through my veins.
AWS Certifications
6x CertifiedAWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Work Experience
Cloud Consultant
Cloudar
Helping organizations design and implement cloud solutions on AWS with a focus on infrastructure as code, security best practices, and operational excellence.
Key Projects
Platform engineer in the team that runs the AWS multi-account organization for 17 pension funds (70+ accounts, 50+ EKS clusters), managed entirely with Terraform, Terragrunt and GitLab CI. Designed and built the FinOps cost dashboard from the ground up: a Python collector over Cost and Usage Report 2.0 parquet with EKS split-cost allocation, team attribution and per-principal Bedrock attribution, reconciled against Cost Explorer and served as a static site on GitLab Pages. A fleet-wide Lambda cost analysis led to right-sized provisioned concurrency across 47 accounts and a backlog of unused functions. On the API Gateway and Lambda integration platform delivered S3 archiving of large payloads, ServiceNow to Intune integrations and TLS 1.3 enforcement for the DigiD audit. Hardened the internal Terraform pipeline generator after a production incident with pagination guardrails and a static checker that surfaced 75+ unpaginated AWS API calls. Designed IAM Identity Center permission sets, fixed platform-wide breakglass assignments, resolved ArgoCD and Helm GitOps issues across 27 chart repositories, and rotated in as weekly support engineer. Built Claude Code based triage tooling for the support channel on top of a verified knowledge base of 1,000+ historical cases.
Principal Consultant
FreshMinds
Facilitating an engineering culture where consultants are intrinsically motivated to continuously develop through knowledge sharing, mentorship, and coaching.
Key Projects
Part of the Cloud Center of Enablement (CCoE), the consulting arm of the ANWB Cloud team. Guided application teams in their cloud journey on AWS and Azure. Organized monthly Cloud Days (knowledge sharing sessions) and a large-scale Cloud Summit with external speakers. Contributed to the migration program, specifically the ESB/ISB migration from JBoss web servers on-premise to EKS Fargate on AWS, setting up infrastructure and network integrations. Co-initiated the Cloud Solution Library, providing reusable building blocks to help teams accelerate cloud adoption.
AWS Lead Architect & Cloud Consultant
Oblivion Cloud Control / Xebia
Led cloud initiatives and architected complex AWS solutions for enterprise clients in financial and industrial sectors.
Key Projects
Developed and built a Data Analytics Platform on AWS. Implemented streaming (Confluent Kafka) and batch processing solutions using Lambda, Glue, MWAA, S3, RedShift, Athena, and LakeFormation.
Led the migration from DSM AWS environment to new landing zone. Designed complex network topology with Transit Gateway and multi-cloud connectivity. Migrated Data Analytics Platform within 6-month deadline.
AWS Lead Architect & Cloud Consultant
Oblivion Cloud Control / Xebia
Designed and built enterprise landing zones and established Cloud Centers of Excellence.
Key Projects
Built landing zone and established Cloud Center of Excellence. Led workshops, architected solutions, and helped hire and train internal cloud team.
AWS Cloud Consultant
Oblivion Cloud Control
Delivered AWS consultancy for various enterprise clients. Conducted workshops, designed landing zones, and performed cloud migrations.
Key Projects
Technical Consultant
Sentia
Started career as a technical consultant in the on-premise hosting world. Managed mission-critical hosting environments, customer datacenters, and enterprise applications. Gained deep experience with infrastructure, networking, and system administration before transitioning to cloud.
Skills & Technologies
Cloud & Architecture
Infrastructure as Code
Programming
Containers
CI/CD & DevOps
Networking
Data & Analytics
Security
Monitoring
Operating Systems
Education
Bachelor of Technology
Computer Science - Information Technology
Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Consultants Development Masterclass
Professional Development
TIAS School for Business and Society
Lead the Way
Leadership Program
TIAS School for Business and Society
Let's Work Together
Interested in collaborating on cloud projects or need AWS consultancy?