William de Ronde joined bol.com 10 years ago. In the years since, he did a full Tour of Duty in IT: as a developer, project manager, manager technology, and head of operations. His experience combined with his gut-feeling way of working made him the best candidate to lead the migration to bol.com’s newly built datacenter in 2014. Now that that’s completed very successfully, he’s the IT innovation manager helping the IT organization to stay on the edge by constantly motivating every engineer, manager, and director to get the most out of themselves.
Bol.com has been growing bigger and faster for years, with all the growing pains of more people, a larger and more complex landscape, sharing codebases, more and more dependencies, and bottlenecks. You’re always waiting for somebody, and there’s always somebody waiting for you. To battle this we decided to enable everybody to implement their own vision on DevOps – a great journey towards autonomy! Read more.