About
Platform Architect & Software Engineer with 28 years of international experience building platforms that enable software development teams. From maritime and energy infrastructure to fintech and retail platforms, I co-create standardized infrastructure, governance frameworks, and developer enablement strategies. My expertise spans cloud architecture, platform maturity, and transformation leadership - consistently delivering scalable platforms that reduce friction, accelerate adoption, and drive measurable business outcomes. With experience across energy, maritime, banking, fintech, retail, and managed services, I bring a track record of enabling software teams to innovate at scale.
Platform Architect & Software Engineer
- Website: hernandez-ortiz.com
- City: Ermelo, The Netherlands
- Degree: Bachelor of Science
- Email: quincy@hernandez-ortiz.com
- Availability: Open to engagements
- Languages: Dutch, English, German
I help organizations accelerate their cloud journey by building the enablement structures, governance frameworks, and team capabilities needed to operate at scale. My approach combines technical depth with transformational leadership - turning complex cloud challenges into well-structured, measurable outcomes that teams can own and executives can trust. With experience across energy, banking, retail, and managed services, I bring a consistent track record of enabling adoption, reducing risk, and delivering lasting operational improvement.
Facts
28+ years enabling software development teams globally, fueled by one constant: talented people who share a passion for building platforms that accelerate innovation and last.
Happy colleagues
Had the pleasure of working with the most talented and
dedicated colleagues, with whom I have been able to realise epic achievements. People make the
difference.
Projects
Being able to find the right opportunities with different challenges
and situations. For every problem always a solution. It's all about being persistent, determined and
motivated - a simple formula to get things done.
Support Teams
Coached and worked with numerous multidisciplinary support teams
located around the world.
Years working in IT
Never a dull moment
Skills & Expertise
Platform engineering expertise rooted in 28 years of scaling software development teams, backed by industry certifications (PRINCE2, SAFe, ITIL V4, Azure, Databricks).
Platform Engineering
Cloud & Platform Infrastructure
Delivery & Leadership
Data & Analytics Platforms
DevSecOps & Governance
Endpoint & Workplace Services
Resume
A concise overview of my professional background. For a full CV or to discuss an engagement, please reach out via the contact section below or connect on LinkedIn.
Summary
Quincy Hernández Ortiz
Platform & Software Engineer Leader with 28+ years of international experience building platforms that enable software development teams. Technical architect with hands-on engineering expertise across cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and enterprise-scale systems. Proven track record designing and scaling developer platforms at global enterprises, bringing standardized infrastructure, governance, and enablement strategies that reduce friction, accelerate adoption, and drive measurable outcomes across energy, maritime, fintech, and retail sectors.
- Ermelo, The Netherlands
- quincy@hernandez-ortiz.com
Education
HBO Software Engineering & Development
2025 - 2026
NCOI Opleidingen
Applied informatics programme covering application design and architecture, test management, development, and cloud infrastructure.
Bachelor of Business Science
2004 - 2010
Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Business Science and International Management Studies, with a focus on engineering-led process improvement, cost reduction, and organisational development.
Certifications
- 2026 - Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I)
- 2026 - ITIL 5 Foundation
- 2025 - Databricks Accredited (Fundamentals, Data Analytics, Platform Administrator)
- 2023 - Microsoft: AZ-104, AZ-900, SC-900, DP-900, MS-900
- 2022 - DevOps Leadership, DevOn
- 2021 - ITIL V4 Foundation, Pink Elephant
- 2017 - Agile Scrum, Davidson Training
- 2016 - PRINCE2 Project Management
Professional Experience
Sr. Cloud Enablement Lead - Managed Cloud Platform
April 2025 - Present
TenneT TSO B.V., Infrastructure, Integration & Cloud
- Supporting application teams across the Netherlands and Germany in a safe, controlled onboarding to the Managed Cloud Platform, in close collaboration with the outsourcing partner.
- Accelerating adoption by defining reusable standards, architecture patterns, and onboarding guardrails with a focus on security, quality, and scalability.
- Driving enablement through training, design guidance, quality assurance, and FinOps practices.
Senior Product Manager - Data Science Platform
May 2023 - January 2026
Rabobank, Financial Economic Crime Tech
- Built data science platform infrastructure enabling Transaction Monitoring Detection teams—processing 11+ million transactions daily to identify money laundering and terrorist financing.
- Guided platform through Start-Up to Scale-Up transition: standardized data pipelines, ML ops infrastructure, and team enablement for data science and rule detection teams.
- Technology foundation: Azure Databricks (ML), Apache Kafka (streaming), Apache Airflow (orchestration), Azure ML, Azure ADF, Terraform IaC, Python/PySpark.
Sr. Product Manager - Cloud Platform & Developer Enablement
January 2019 - April 2023
Ahold Delhaize, Global Support Office
- Built Cloud Competence Center & developer platform enabling 50+ Ahold development teams globally. Co-created standardized building blocks, golden paths, and governance frameworks to accelerate cloud adoption and reduce migration friction across all brands.
- Delivered cloud control & compliance tooling, RPA automation infrastructure for shared services teams, and global Intune rollout: 72,000 workplace devices, 50,000 mobile devices, 8,000 store devices.
- Designed and scaled platform maturity model, cloud governance dashboard, and developer enablement onboarding strategy across EMEA region.
Operations Manager / Service Delivery
1997 – 2018
Fujitsu Technology Solutions & Fujitsu Siemens Computers
- 20 years across service delivery, operations, pre-sales, and global program management within the EMEIA region.
- Roles included Operations Manager, Customer Service Management (EMEIA), Service Delivery Manager, IT Service Management Consultant, and Program Manager overseeing the insourcing of 350 FTE across 7 locations.
Portfolio
In this section you will find more concrete examples of projects I have worked on and results I have achieved working at different organisations.
- All
- 2019 - Present
- 2018 - 2012
- 2012 - 1997
- Personal
Engagement details
- Client: TenneT TSO B.V.
- Period: April 2025 – Present
- Role: Sr. Cloud Enablement Lead
- Focus: Platform Enablement, DevSecOps, FinOps
TenneT — Managed Cloud Platform Enablement
Context: TenneT TSO B.V. operates critical energy infrastructure across the Netherlands and Germany as Europe's leading transmission system operator. Reliable, secure cloud adoption directly supports the energy transition mission.
Challenge: Application teams across two countries needed to onboard to a centralised Managed Cloud Platform at pace — with varying maturity levels, cross-border complexity, and zero tolerance for security or compliance risk in a critical infrastructure environment.
Approach: Functioning as Cloud Enablement Lead for the MCP, defining reusable onboarding patterns, architecture guardrails, and quality assurance checkpoints. Delivered design guidance, training, and communication programmes. Introduced FinOps practices and collaborated closely with the outsourcing partner to ensure consistent, scalable delivery.
Result: Accelerated workload onboarding across NL and DE teams. Standardised approach reduces onboarding friction, improves security posture, and enables the platform to scale compliantly.
Azure (SaaS/PaaS) · DevSecOps · Cloud Architecture · Agile/SAFe · ITIL/IT4IT · FinOps · Monitoring & Observability
Engagement details
- Client: Rabobank
- Period: May 2023 – January 2026
- Role: Senior Product Manager, FEC TEC
- Focus: Data Platform, Financial Crime Detection
Rabobank — Transaction Monitoring Platform
Context: Rabobank's Financial Economic Crime Tech area is responsible for detecting money laundering and terrorist financing across one of the Netherlands' largest banks, processing millions of transactions daily.
Challenge: Build and maintain a scalable IT and Data Science foundation that could support multiple model owners and ML engineers simultaneously — while transitioning the platform from a start-up to a scale-up operating model within the constraints of a major regulated bank.
Approach: As Senior Product Manager, owned the IT and Data Science base layer used by all model teams for financial crime detection. Guided architectural decisions, managed dependencies, and ensured the platform remained performant, governed, and developer-friendly throughout the scale-up transition.
Result: Platform processes over 11 million transactions per day, enabling multiple model teams to build, deploy, and operate financial crime detection models at scale. Successfully navigated the Start-Up to Scale-Up transition within the Rabobank organisation.
Azure Cloud · Azure Databricks · Azure ML · Azure ADF · Apache Kafka · Airflow · Terraform · Python (PySpark)
Engagement details
- Client: Ahold Delhaize
- Period: January 2019 – April 2023
- Role: Sr. Product Manager, Cloud & Endpoint
- Focus: Cloud Transformation, Governance, Endpoints
Ahold Delhaize — Azure Transformation & Global Governance
Context: Ahold Delhaize is one of the world's largest food retail groups, with brands across the Netherlands, the United States, Europe, and Asia. The Global Support Office drives the technology transformation enabling all brands.
Challenge: Migrate global application workloads from on-premises data centres to Azure, establish consistent cloud governance across all subscriptions in the global tenant, and modernise endpoint management across 130,000+ devices worldwide — at scale, without disrupting operations.
Approach: Led multiple technical product teams across Cloud Infrastructure and Endpoint Management. Co-developed the Global Cloud Framework with Microsoft and built the Cloud Governance Dashboard providing real-time compliance visibility across all Azure subscriptions. Delivered a global Intune rollout using Autopilot, Co-management, and AADJ deployment models. Built the Global RPA infrastructure with a fully automated bot deployment and operations environment.
Result: Workloads successfully migrated to Azure. Compliance state made visible across the full global tenant. Intune deployed globally to 72,000 workplace, 50,000 mobile, and 8,000 store devices across all brands. Global RPA platform operational and enabling automation at scale.
Azure IaaS/PaaS · Global Cloud Framework · Cloud Governance Dashboard · Microsoft Intune · Autopilot · Co-management · Azure RPA
Project information
- Period: 2018 - 2012
- Topic: Maritime Service Management
Maritime Service Management
Owned service delivery for maritime customers by aligning operations and innovation, coordinating infrastructure teams, and driving a roadmap that improved stability while enabling change.
Project information
- Period: 2018 - 2012
- Topic: Agile Transformation in Banking
Agile Transformation in Banking
Introduced Agile Scrum from the ground up within a major Dutch banking environment, improving delivery predictability, transparency, and cross-team collaboration.
Project information
- Period: 2018 - 2012
- Topic: Government Bids & Delivery Scoping
Government Bids & Delivery Scoping
Supported public-sector tenders as a pre-sales consultant—translating complex requirements into credible solutions and delivery approaches, from local municipalities to the Ministry of Defence.
Project information
- Period: 2012 - 1997
- Topic: Outsourcing & Global Delivery Leadership
Outsourcing & Global Delivery Leadership
Led outsourced service delivery across offshore/nearshore models, balancing contract expectations with measurable outcomes, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement.
Project information
- Period: 2012 - 1997
- Topic: Pre-sales Consulting
Pre-sales Consulting
Partnered with sales and delivery teams to shape opportunities into actionable plans—clarifying scope, risks, dependencies, and a pragmatic roadmap from idea to execution.
Project information
- Period: 2012 - 1997
- Topic: Global Service Desk & Support Centers
Global Service Desk & Support Centers
Directed global delivery centers across Germany, Spain, Turkey, and Poland, strengthening operational performance through knowledge management, training, and consistent quality standards.
Project information
- Period: Personal
- Topic: Stadscamping Harderwijk
Stadscamping Harderwijk (Personal Project)
Co-created a temporary city campsite with my wife Martine, working closely with the municipality to turn a local initiative into a well-run, guest-friendly experience.
Project information
- Period: Personal
- Topic: Tech Events & Community
Tech Events & Community
Actively contribute to the tech community by organizing and participating in events and workshops—sharing practical knowledge and connecting people around modern technology.
Tooling and frameworks
Having had the opportunity to work across different organizations and sectors, I have built hands-on experience with the frameworks, standards, and toolsets that drive modern cloud platforms — applying these to improve agility, reduce cost, and raise the quality bar for platform engineering teams.
Service Management Frameworks
To effectively use the IT capacity of an organisation. This to ensure it maximizes on quality, prevent risks and ensure transparency of cost. In my experience most of the organisations I have worked at use ITIL but I am also no stranger to COBIT.
Enterprise Service Management Tooling
Mainly worked with Service Now, either implementing Service Now installations at our customers, or setting up the requirements for the support teams I worked with.
CI/CD Tooling
The last years I have mainly with the combination Github and Microsoft DevOps. As a Product Owner working in Platform engineering teams, I ensure we harmonize our toolsets, this to ensure our engineers and architects can work as efficient as possible.
Atlassian Suite
Confluence mainly to capture and manage our design and architecture decisions, or deviations. This was used throughout the organisation. Jira as an Agile toolset has also been used and integrated in the tool landscape of our platform teams.
FinOps
A key component in managing cloud infrastructure in an effective manner is to ensure the implementation of the FinOps framework. Maturing based on this framework is key to transparently manage (multi)cloud costs.
Microsoft Cloud Platform Services
Besides the Azure Cloud, Defender and Azure AD blade, I also have extensive experience with the Intune blade having deployed over 50K mobile devices, and 72K Workplace devices and 8K Store devices.
Looking for a Cloud Enablement Lead or Platform Architect?
I help organisations accelerate their cloud journey — from onboarding guardrails and governance frameworks to platform team design and FinOps maturity. If you are navigating a cloud transformation, scaling a platform team, or need experienced hands-on leadership, let's talk.
Start a conversationContact
I always get enthusiastic from people that contact me, so if you have a question or just want to reach out. Please contact me through the following details
Location:
Ermelo, The Netherlands
Email:
quincy@hernandez-ortiz.com
Call:
+31 6 536 82219