Yvo van Zee

Hi I’m Yvo,

I’m currently working as a Cloud Consultant at Xebia. I specialise in building highly available environments using automation (Infrastructure as Code combined with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).

My fascination with Cloud and Automation started when I worked at a hosting provider. On-premise datacenters consisted of long-lived servers that needed to be patched and upgraded (both software and hardware). This used to be a time-consuming task that required dedicated engineers to monitor and maintain these servers.

Instead of maintaining these servers I got inspired to automate and make these environments scalable, self-healing and immutable (stateless). I sort of created a private cloud. When I started working for Oblivion, I first experienced the 'real' cloud power. From day one, I had to learn more about the DevOps way of thinking and use tooling such as CloudFormation, Terraform, git, python and Bash. By continuously developing myself, I’ve learned to adapt quickly to emerging technologies. I call it pioneering.

And as an AWS Community Builder I love to share my knowledge, which you can find here on my site.