Martijn van Dongen

Cloud Evangelist / MCE

Martijn works at Schuberg Philis as Cloud Evangelist and Mission Critical Engineer (MCE). He is building a variety of workloads and products on AWS since 2013, and holds all core AWS certifications. Martijn is an active AWS developer, architect, consultant, and trainer. He has founded and leads the AWS user group in The Netherlands (AWSug.nl) and is therefore recognized as an AWS Community Hero.

AWS Cloud Evangelist

February 2021 - Present | Schiphol-Rijk

I joined the Cloud Acceleration Team (CAT) to guide & support Schuberg Philis' customer teams in their public cloud journey. I'm the public face in regard to AWS competencies and capabilities, representing the vision at public appearances and at events.

schubergphilis.com

Freelancer

January 2020 - Present | Hoorn

As an independent Cloud Consultant and AWS Trainer, I have worked for various customers like: Team Rockstars IT, Synadia, InfoSupport and Missing Piece. The freedom also made it possible to spend significant time with my two young kids during the pandemic and lockdowns.

Chief AWS

Mar. 2016 - Dec. 2019 | Hilversum, Amsterdam

I started at Xebia working as a DevOps consultant for Rabobank. I discovered my entrepreneurial spirit and led the AWS cloud practice in the group. We founded binx.io, a cloud consultancy subsidiary of Xebia.

xebia.com binx.io

AWS Community Hero

November 2019 - Present

The AWS Hero program recognizes a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts whose enthusiasm for knowledge-sharing has a real impact within the community. Heroes go above and beyond to share knowledge via social media, blog posts, open source projects, events, and user groups.

Profile on Amazon.com awsug.nl

AWS APN Ambassador

January 2018 - Present

The APN Ambassador Program is a community of technical experts in the AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partner community. APN Ambassadors are passionate about sharing their AWS technical expertise through public presentations, open source projects, and social media. APN Ambassadors possess multiple AWS certifications as well as in-depth AWS knowledge.

Profile on Amazon.com

Cloud Architect

July 2010 - January 2016 | Hoorn, Amsterdam

I worked at Mirabeau before it was acquired by Cognizant. We were one of the leading digital agencies. I was a technical lead and architect for various customers, including one of their largest accounts: transavia.com.

mirabeau.nl

Certifications

I currently hold 7/11 AWS certifications. I made a decision to focus on services and technology that is covered in these 7 certifications, that's why I'm currently not aiming to get more.

Impact

I had the opportunity to work with many big brands the last decade. Hover or tick to see more about the engagements.

I was a Cloud Consultant at binx from 2016 to 2019

In 2020, I delivered a hands-on AWS training.

In 2019, I created dozens of AWS tracks for Instruqt.

Multiple pre-sales activities and involved in various AWS engagements.

Missing Piece was my first employer, and they hired me again as an interim CTO in 2020/2021.

I was a technical lead for MoneYou for their web and mobile platforms.

DevOps consultant, implementing their internal Xebia Labs products.

Started working at Schuberg Philis in 2021

Teached some StackStaters a lot about AWS

Trainer for all engineers aiming to get AWS certified.

Technical lead for the transavia.com, member of the Architecture board.

Flown in as AWS expert to modernize their AWS stack.

Latest Blogs by Martijn van Dongen

Launching a tech blog with Hugo and Amplify within 30 minutes

June 28, 2020

In this tutorial we’ll launch a tech blog using Hugo and Amplify Console

Building a CloudFormation Template for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

May 8, 2020

This blog post describes how to create a VPC template full of easy to learn CloudFormation features. Enjoy!

Use a single Hugo codebase to generate content for different audiences

April 17, 2020

I’ve built a website with static content for my AWS-education program. This website is used by different type of users. Students, pro-level students, and trainers.