Aiden Hank Janssen

About Aiden Hank Janssen

Visionary Technology Executive | CTO & Chief Architect | Cloud Engineering & AI TransformationI am a strategic engineering leader with over 20 years of experience orchestrating digital transformations and global cloud operations for enterprise-scale organizations. My career has been defined by bridging the gap between deep technical architecture and broad business objectives, delivering secure, scalable, and cost-optimized solutions that drive significant ROI.Currently, as Vice President of Cloud Engineering at Duck Creek Technologies, I lead a global organization of 120+ engineers responsible for the cloud infrastructure powering major insurance providers like Geico and Progressive. My focus is on leveraging Agentic AI and Generative AI to revolutionize monitoring and deployment, while championing FinOps principles to maximize operational Career Highlights:• Massive Fiscal Impact: Delivered over $30 million in savings at Axon and consistently reduced cloud operational costs by 30% through strategic FinOps leadership.• Global Scale: Managed infrastructure for the world\'s largest private consumer of Azure, overseeing 110PB+ of data and maintaining uptime.• AI & Innovation: Pioneered the world’s first cloud-based 911 system and integrated Agentic AI to replace legacy workflow engines.• Operational Excellence: Accelerated deployment speeds by 80% and successfully led the world’s largest cloud migration.• Leadership: Recipient of the highest leadership scores from my engineering teams in 2024 and Core Expertise:Executive Leadership | Cloud Strategy (Azure, AWS, GCP)| SRE & DevSecOps | FinOps | Agentic & Generative AI | Global Team Building | Regulatory Compliance (FedRAMP High/Medium).Technology background includes but is not limited to; Linux, UNIX®, C/C++, Azure, AWS, Google GCP, Oracle® RDBMS, MySQL, LAMP, PHP, Java, Hyper-V, KVM, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, Kubernetes, ActiveMQ, Kafka, Containerization, Cassandra, ELK, Ansible, Puppet, Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace.Methodology background includes but is not limited to; Waterfall, Agile Development, RACI, SCRUM, ITIL, Lean, Six Sigma, Project management, Process Management, Sarbanes Oxley.

Experience

1. Sr Director Cloud Engineering and Sre

   Duck Creek Technologies

   Sep 2023 — Present · TN, US

   Duck Creek is the insurance software behind companies like Geico, Progressive and Hartford insurance among many others. • Cloud Engineering is responsible for all Cloud Infrastructure, databases, Release management, deployment, monitoring, Security, Automation, SRE and provisioning of all of Duck creeks Cloud products (Teams now in excess of 120 people)• Got highest leadership score from the teams that I led of any engineering team at Duck Creek for 2024 and 2025• Responsible for long, medium- and short-term planning, Including operations of Cloud assets.• Owned Cloud budgets, SLO’s, KPI’s and SLAs for all of Cloud.• Led migration from Dynatrace to Grafana, reducing cost by 70%• Reduced cloud operational cost by 30%• Reduced overall vendor spend by 35%• Owned FinOps for all of cloud• Build out standalone SRE team that is used extensively across the company, Reducing SLO, SLA. Speed up deployments by over 80%. And is heavily embedded in the development organization ensuring operational readiness for all products across Cloud.• Maintained budget below 3% of estimate.• Cloud Foundation uses Agentic AI and Generative AI extensively, from coding to monitoring to deployment, and continues to expand its use.• Deployments in over 7 regions around the world in both Azure and AWS• Duck Creek is a remote only company, Cloud Foundation has teams stationed in Poland, France, India, Australia and the United States.

Education

• Hoofddorp

  EE + CS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science