I make infrastructure boring.
−40% incidents. $10M+ saved across roles. Two migrations in two years. I build and lead the infrastructure organisations behind numbers like these. Head of Infrastructure at Manychat, Amsterdam.
↓ six stories, two minutes each
Five companies, one job: infrastructure that holds up under growth. Several of them went on to become unicorns. The through-line: from teaching Linux, to building systems, to leading the organisations that run them — now for the AI era.
Six stories. Two minutes each.
§ StoriesThe $10M nobody could see
40% of incidents, gone
Moving to AWS while millions were watching
ISO 27001 without killing velocity
A delivery stream from zero
Observability from day one
Tools change every era. The job doesn't.
§ Stack · daily driversRun
The substrate
Ship
The paved road
See
The eyes
Remember
The memory
Guard
The locks
The new users
The AI era
Writing.
§ Blog · field notesPlatform engineering for the AI era — 1:10 to 1:1000
The five capabilities every infra org needs before the end of 2026.
FinOpsHow I've saved $10M+ in AWS spend — a playbook
Five levers ranked by ROI, with the failure modes that eat FinOps programmes alive.
Hiring · Medium ↗How we hire for infrastructure at Manychat
From first call to offer in 10 days. On Manychat Engineering.
Off duty.
§ About · the human
Amsterdam, a Fujifilm X-E5, and seven years of teaching Linux before any of this. More about me →
Where I can help.
§ Problems I think aboutIf your cloud bill grows faster than your product, the pager owns your engineers’ weekends, a migration refuses to end, or your platform team has quietly become a ticket queue — these are the problems I’ve spent fifteen years on. The stories above show how they get solved. No pitch; I compare notes with engineering leaders working the same problems. Describe yours →
Say hi.
§ ContactPlatform leadership, AI infrastructure, FinOps, speaking — or joining the Manychat infra team. Say which, and I’ll answer faster.