Summary
Arnold Van Wijnbergen is a cloud-native entrepreneur and observability specialist with over two decades of experience building and advising platform and monitoring solutions for large enterprises across finance, government and retail. As founder/co-founder of multiple ventures (Observion, Qensus, Sovereign Cloud NL, SearchLayer) and a former principal at Devoteam, he blends hands-on engineering with product ownership and strategic architecture, particularly around Kubernetes, Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana and chaos engineering. He frequently operates at the intersection of DevSecOps and observability—helping teams adopt SLO/SLI practices, enable Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and modernize monitoring platforms on AWS and Azure. Known locally for active community engagement around Amsterdam meetups, Arnold pairs deep technical certifications (CKA/CKAD, RHCE, cloud and security stacks) with business analysis and management diplomas to translate complex problems into pragmatic roadmaps. Colleagues call him the go-to problem solver who keeps a helicopter view while still being hands-on in implementation and open source enablement.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
ISEB - Business Analysis diploma, ISEB - Business Analysis diploma at BCS — The Chartered Institute for IT
Bedrijfskundige Informatica, Bedrijfskundige Informatica at LOI Hogeschool
HBO IT Project Management, HBO IT Project Management at EXIN Short Track
Elektrotechniek, Elektrotechniek at Hogeschool Alkmaar
Praktijkdiploma Nemas Middle Management, Praktijkdiploma Nemas Middle Management at Associatie Praktijkexamens
English, Dutch, German