About

I am an engineer first. The governance follows from the engineering.

I spent over two decades building and securing digital infrastructure for some of Europe's most complex organisations. I am good at it. The compliance and readiness work I do now is built on that engineering, not the other way round.

Who you work with

You work with me, one engagement at a time

For the past two decades I built secure, cloud-native platforms in places where an audit is never far away: public justice, banking, transport, aviation and retail. Kubernetes, identity and access, controlled and auditable CI/CD delivery, security-by-design. This is the work I know in my hands.

And while doing it, I kept noticing the same thing. A deal would stall on a security questionnaire. An AI feature would head to production with no clear story about its controls. The answer to that is not a slide deck. It is someone who has shipped the real thing and can tell you, plainly, what is solid and what is not. That is what I do, and I do it myself.

Where I have done this
  • CJIB, Dutch Ministry of Justice
    Cloud engineer / architect & DevOps, security-by-design
    2019 to present
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS)
    DevOps, CI/CD delivery
    2019
  • Ahold Delhaize
    Architect / DevOps
    2013 to 2019
  • ING
    Software developer
    2013
  • KLM
    DevOps / architect / lead Java
    2010 to 2013

Public engagements, as listed on my Malt CV.

How I work

Judgement over slideware

01

Security-by-design

I design controls in at the architecture level. I do not bolt them on before an audit. This is how I have built platforms for twenty years.

02

Controlled and auditable delivery

I build CI/CD that leaves an evidence trail. If you cannot show how a change reached production, you cannot defend it to an auditor.

03

Honest hand-offs

I tell you exactly where my work ends and a specialist's begins: certification audit, legal sign-off, penetration test. I do not pretend otherwise.

04

Fixed scope

I agree day blocks up front and take one engagement at a time. No open-ended retainer, no scope that quietly grows.

Sectors I have worked in

Regulated environments, end to end

These are the domains I have done the engineering in myself. No ranking, no order of preference. This is simply where the work has been.

Public sector
Banking
Transport
Aviation
Retail
What you can rely on

Insured, and honest about scope

Professionally insured

I carry professional liability cover.

Frameworks as readiness, never as certification

ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIS2, GDPR and the EU AI Act come up constantly in my work. I treat them as readiness and response, never as a certificate I hold. I am an engineer, not an auditor, a lawyer or a pentester. Where you need certified sign-off, I bring in the right specialist and stay alongside.

My certifications are technical

Java (SCJP), Kubernetes Fundamentals, Go, Spring, WebMethods. I hold no GRC certifications, and I will never imply otherwise.

The entity

Sirrapa IT

I take one engagement at a time, in fixed-scope day blocks agreed up front.

Legal entity
Sirrapa BV
KvK
60336250
VAT
NL8538.64.020.B01
Based
Tuitjenhorn, Netherlands
Next step

Worth a conversation?

Give me thirty minutes, no slide deck. We work out together whether the problem in front of you is one I can actually help with, and where, honestly, you would be better served by a specialist. I would like to talk.

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Contact

Book a call

Tell me what you are working on. I will tell you plainly whether I can help, and how.

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