A boutique practice, led by the engineer doing the work.
Netwise is a specialist consultancy for platform engineering and cloud security. We work with financial institutions and enterprises across Benelux, DACH, and Romania — environments where infrastructure has to satisfy engineers, auditors, and regulators at the same time.
The practice grew in two chapters. The first years were high-traffic e-commerce: platforms where every minute of downtime had a price tag, and "it works on my machine" was never an answer. The last six years have been spent inside regulated environments — global banks, payments, rail, and Big 4 consultancies — where the same engineering discipline meets change control, audit trails, and air-gapped networks.
That arc is deliberate: speed learned in e-commerce, rigor learned in banking. Clients get both.
Principal consultant.
Principal consultant
senior platform engineer & cloud architect- experience
- 13+ years in infrastructure · 6 in banks & regulated industries
- certified
- CKA · OSCP · HashiCorp Vault Associate — independently verifiable on Credly
- operated
- AWS EKS & Azure AKS in production · on-prem & hybrid environments
- core stack
- Kubernetes · Vault · ArgoCD · Kyverno · Falco · Terraform · Prometheus/Grafana
- delivery
- 100% senior-level — engagements led end to end, architecture to pull request
- base
- Bucharest, Romania
Selected engagements.
Client names are withheld by default — the environments we work in take confidentiality seriously, and so do we. References available in conversation.
A Belgian retail bank
WAF management and reverse-proxy infrastructure in front of critical banking systems — edge security and traffic control, operated with banking-grade change discipline.
A global investment bank
Infrastructure and platform engineering inside a heavily regulated, change-controlled environment.
A European payments startup
Cloud infrastructure for a payments product — regulated-industry constraints at startup speed.
A global rail manufacturer
Kubernetes platform and security tooling in a safety-conscious, process-driven enterprise environment: policy-as-code admission control, runtime security in air-gapped delivery, secrets management, cluster lifecycle and production upgrades.
A Big 4 consultancy
Enterprise infrastructure and DevOps delivery for consultancy clients.
High-traffic e-commerce platforms
Years of building and operating revenue-critical web infrastructure — the origin of our uptime discipline.
How we engage.
Contracting
Engagements run B2B through our EU-registered company — day-rate based, with clear scope and deliverables agreed upfront.
On-site & remote
Remote-first delivery, on-site where the work needs it — workshops, audits, and the conversations that work better in a room.
Who does the work
The consultant you meet in the first call is the engineer in your repositories. No handoffs to a delivery team that wasn't in the room.
Knowledge stays with you
Documentation, runbooks, and pairing are part of every engagement — the platform should outlive our involvement.
Sounds like a fit?
The first conversation is free and technical — bring your architecture diagram, we'll bring questions.
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