Boas Betzler

CTO, Complex Cloud Solutions

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Filderstadt, Germany

Experience

Jan 2025 - Dec 2025
1 year

Technical Leader and Executive Sponsor, AI Solution Assistant

  • Product owner and Executive Sponsor for an AI Assistant trained on a knowledge base of past solution designs, RFP documents, and current product documentation
  • Used by nearly 100 global architects and engineers in pre-sales and post-sales
  • Generates full solution documents with requirement-driven architecture decisions, solution overview, diagrams, bill of materials, and roles and responsibility matrix
  • Technologies: AI, LLM, chat bot, RAG, agentic AI, vector databases, public cloud
Jan 2025 - Dec 2025
1 year
Netherlands

Leader resiliency incident assessment, Airport baggage handling system

Schiphol airport

  • Led a one-week assessment of major misplaced baggage incidents, detailing root causes, identifying architectural and operational risks, and recommending improvements
  • Technologies: on-premises data center, resiliency, Linux, AIX, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Open Data Foundation, file services, Postgres, Oracle, automation, service management, patch automation and management, observability, DR
Jan 2025 - Dec 2025
1 year
Germany

IT Consultant

Software company or healthcare providers

  • IT Consultant project for a dental software provider
  • Assessed technology choices for virtualization, containerization, and Postgres database
  • Identified installation inhibitors and reviewed automation for installation and data migration
  • Analyzed system requirements and conducted a competitive analysis of six competitors in the German dental software industry
  • Analyzed performance challenges and provided improvement recommendations
  • Technologies: hardware for small-to-medium dental healthcare providers, Windows, Linux, macOS, HyperV, Docker, local network, Postgres, Grafana, FHIRE healthcare interface standard, German guideline §75b SGB – Protection of sensitive patient data in medical practices and medical care centers
Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
1 year
Germany

Leader Cloud solution design quality assurance, Electronic Patient Health records

  • Responsible for quality assurance of cloud architecture for electronic patient health records
  • Successful delivery in 2024 and operation in 2025
  • Technologies: hybrid cloud, private data center and public cloud, Kubernetes, Linux, object storage, databases, security, encryption, key management, regulatory requirements, GDPR
Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
1 year

Product owner, Zone-replicated Managed File Service Public Cloud

  • Responsible for requirement documentation and delivery of functional and non-functional capabilities of a synchronous replicated file system
  • Technologies: public cloud, Linux, Windows, network, cross-data-center connectivity, NetApp, CIFS/SMB/Trident, migration, replication, DR
Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
1 year

Co-leader Major incident analysis and risk assessment, Multi-channel online banking

Major European Bank

  • Co-led one week independent analysis of major outage, documented evidence for root cause in solution and technology, and ensured cyber attack cause could be factually excluded
  • Presented report at board level
  • Technologies: Network, DMZ, Web service flows, API Gateway, Web Application Firewall, Load Balancer, IDS/IPS, DDoS, TCP/IP traffic analysis, application and code library handling of socket connections, SIEM, Cyber resiliency, regulatory requirements
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
1 year

Leader Multi-datacenter resilient architecture, Life Insurance

Major German Insurance

  • Led documentation of solution design documents and architecture decisions
  • Project delivered and running in production
  • Technologies: Public Cloud, resiliency, storage replication, security, encryption, regulator compliance, service management, resiliency, DR, VMWare, Windows, Linux
Jan 2022 - Dec 2025
4 years

Co-leader Design Authority, Journey to Cloud

Caixa

  • Co-leader of Design Authority with Bank CTO and Service Provider stakeholders, responsible for solution design and architecture decisions
  • Achieved successful migration of planned volumes of branch and core banking systems
  • Technologies: IBM Public Cloud, z/OS, Hybrid Cloud, Linux, Windows, Network, File Storage, Databases (MS SQL, Oracle, DB2, Postgres, MySQL), Message Queuing, Kubernetes, Event Services, security, encryption, key management, automation, service management, observability, resiliency, DR and DR testing, regulator compliance, DORA
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
1 year

Performance and response time analysis and improvement, Tax office digital services

Tax office

  • Led one month investigation of performance and response time issues
  • Identified root causes, recommended improvements, and introduced best practice architecture patterns
  • After improvements, the system scaled and properly performed
  • Technologies: Public Cloud, web services, API Gateway, Load Balancing, transaction processing, Linux
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
1 year

Leader performance/resiliency analysis and risk assessment, airline reservation protocol

Air Canada

  • Led one month assessment and identified root causes of performance and resiliency issues after airline reservation system migration from mainframe to distributed system
  • Pointed out invalid design choices and proposed modifications leading to proper performance and scaling in production
  • Technologies: z/OS, MQ message queuing, transaction processing, Hybrid Cloud, AIX, Power Server, IBM Cloud, observability, network, RFC 2351
Jan 2019 - Dec 2025
7 years
France
Hybrid

Solution architecture quality assurance, multi zone cloud region for major Bank

BNPP

  • Responsible for quality assurance of Hybrid Cloud architecture
  • Successful delivery in operation across three cloud data centers with thousands of systems migrated
  • Technologies: Hybrid Cloud, IBM Cloud, VMWare, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Postgres, Linux, Windows, service management, observability, security, encryption, key management, compliance, DORA
Jan 2017 - Dec 2019
3 years
United Kingdom

Leader architecture public Cloud landing zone, Banking

Lloyds Bank

  • Responsible for creation and quality assurance of cloud architecture
  • Successful delivery in operation and migration volumes achieved according to plan
  • Technologies: Public Cloud, IaaS, VMWare, Linux, NetApp storage, network, service catalog development, automation, service management, observability, resiliency, UK banking regulations compliance

Summary

Highly accomplished Technical Executive and Organization Leader with extensive experience in hybrid multi-cloud solutions, software development, and cloud architecture and delivery. Trusted partner of global enterprises driving business value through innovative technology. Proven success delivering resilient, mission-critical solutions for international clients in regulated industries.

Skills

  • Hybrid It Architecture
  • Resilient Solution Design
  • Complex Development Projects
  • Innovation Management

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary
Hindi
Elementary

Education

Oct 1992 - Jun 1995

Stuttgart Vocational Academy

Diploma in Engineering (BA) · Computer Science · Stuttgart, Germany

Oct 1986 - Jun 1992

Schiller High School, Offenburg

Offenburg, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Architecting With Google Cloud Platform Specialization

Microservices Practitioner Essentials

Docker Essentials: Extend Your Apps With Containers

IBM Blockchain Essentials

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