Quintin de Kok
Skills at a Glance
- Cloud & Hybrid Architecture – Azure, Azure Arc, AKS, VWAN
- Infrastructure Automation / DevOps – Terraform, GitHub Actions, CI/CD Pipelines
- Data Engineering & Messaging – Kafka, Spark, ETL Patterns
- Reliability & Observability – SLA / SLO practice, Tracing, Monitoring
- Security & Governance – CAF, WAF, Governance Frameworks
Selected Work
- iGaming Hybrid Backbone — Built a resilient backbone for multi-region cloud infrastructure to stabilize recovery time < 1 hr, reduce latency, and improve reliability.
- Self-Service Provisioning Platform — Created IaC blueprints & guardrails, enabling quick stable environments and speeding up deployment by X%.
- Cost & Optimization Effort — Audited cloud usage & refactored parts of infrastructure to reduce waste and unnecessary spend (spot instances, better scaling).
Certifications
Azure Solutions Architect Expert • Azure DevOps Engineer Expert • Azure Administrator & Developer Associate • Network Engineer Associate • Security Engineer Associate
About
I bring 24 years of experience in tech, helping teams balance reliability, cost, and scale. I believe in clarity, automation, and building cloud systems that don’t break when you least expect it.
Contact
- Email: quintindk@gmail.com
- GitHub: github.com/quintindk
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/quintindk