Fractional Leadership & Senior DevOps IC
Techfudge NL partners with product-led organisations to untangle technical debt, architect scalable cloud-native platforms, and build engineering cultures that ship reliably.
Based in Rotterdam · Working remote-first
Capacity, scope, and engagement length are shaped together on your discovery call.
Snapshot
Leadership and hands-on execution for product-led, cloud-native teams.
Career built inside high-growth engineering organisations.
About
Leads Techfudge NL end-to-end — from interim engineering management to hands-on platform work. Background shaped by roles at GitLab, Aiven, AlphaSense, Esports Entertainment Group, and Tala, working across distributed, high-growth engineering organisations.
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Deploying deep engineering leadership directly into high-growth, cloud-native organisations to enforce product momentum across critical transitions and complex scale phases.
Ensure executive continuity and build strong engineering cultures during critical inflection points. Translate ambitious product goals into pragmatic engineering reality.
Architect opinionated, secure paved roads and self-service Developer Experience (DX) built on scalable Infrastructure as Code — executing as a senior IC alongside your team.
Executive-level guidance on scaling fast-growing remote-first teams across global hubs, grounded in flow diagnostics and data.
Case Studies
A sample of how Techfudge NL partners with product-led companies to stabilise platforms, unlock delivery, and align leadership around the right metrics.
SaaS · Europe
Deployed DORA tracking frameworks and zero-downtime pipeline patterns for a high-growth SaaS platform. Replaced guesswork with data-informed delivery decisions within a quarter.
Outcome: Shorter lead times and reduced MTTR.
Platform · US / EMEA
Defined a Terraform/Terragrunt-based landing zone and golden paths for new services. Reduced one-off infrastructure work and clarified what "good" looks like for teams.
Result: faster service onboarding, fewer production surprises.
Scale-up · US / NL
Helped a remote-first product organisation clarify ownership, sharpen rituals, and design a leadership cadence that fits teams split across CET and EST.
Result: clearer decision-making, fewer handoff gaps.
Expertise
Engineering leadership refined at high-growth distributed organisations. Serving enterprise and hyper-growth markets.
Architectural leadership shaped by experience at high-growth distributed organisations including GitLab, Aiven, AlphaSense, Esports Entertainment Group, and Tala — including maintaining 99.98% availability for GitLab.com and scaling Tala's transaction infrastructure 100x. Focused on balancing reliability with rapid product evolution and navigating remote teams through critical operational scaling milestones.
Experience encompasses modernising multi-environment delivery pipelines, architecting core cloud-native strategies, and hiring and mentoring 10+ engineers at GitLab into senior and staff roles.
Global Bridge
Operating from Rotterdam (CET) and working closely with teams in New York (EST), Techfudge NL bridges strategy, delivery, and leadership across the Atlantic.
4 hours of focused overlap between Rotterdam and New York.
Enough time for deep collaboration with US product and leadership teams, while still supporting European delivery and platform squads at the start and end of their day.
Rotterdam · CET
08:00 – 18:00
New York · EST
09:00 – 17:00
This overlap enables daily stand-ups, decision-making rituals, and platform reviews without forcing teams into unsustainable hours.
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