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Hi, I’m Julian Gardner, an IT Manager with over twenty years of experience overseeing software development and IT operations. I enjoy leading teams, improving development processes, and building scalable cloud-based solutions. I have guided organizations through migrations, automated testing, and robust deployment pipelines, and I currently consult through Fortitude IT and other ventures while serving as Interim CTO for Dewi Online.
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Language
Dutch
Fluent
English
Fluent
German
Advanced
Spanish; Castilian
Intermediate
Work Experience
Interim CTO at Dewi Online
December 1, 2024 - October 23, 2025Assist Dewi Online with a complete review of their development processes and code. Integrate a new (offshore) team upgrading their existing apps built in React Native.
Founder at Fortitude IT
January 1, 2020 - PresentAssisting several companies with resolving their hosting and software development issues. Assisting and managing developers, helping them learn and implement best practices. Building and optimizing new hosting clusters in AWS. Set up several CI pipelines.
Software Architect at Junior Einstein
January 1, 2021 - PresentSuccessfully led the transformation of Junior Einstein's application from an immature state with manual deployment and no automated testing, to a mature state with a team of 5 developers working in a structured manner. Implemented automated testing using Github actions to ensure code quality and reliability. Migrated the application to AWS ECS, improving its scalability and performance. Established a streamlined deployment process using tagging and docker images, reducing deployment time and increasing efficiency.
CTO at Eurocios Freetime S.L
December 1, 2019 - October 23, 2025Led the IT team as CTO at Ubeo, overseeing up to 7 people. Successfully merged scattered code base from 5 different repositories into a single new platform, utilizing Yii2 as the backend and React as the frontend. Managed the development of both iOS and Android apps. Oversaw the migration of Ubeo's platform to Cloud.nl cloud platform.
IT Director at Eurocios Freetime S.L
March 1, 2015 - October 23, 2025Set up development strategies and build a team around those strategies. The goal of the team was to be self-sustainable, flexible, and deliver features incrementally. Raised platform stability implementing best practices.
Team Lead at Emesa BV
July 1, 2014 - October 23, 2025Managed several development teams with different specialties, from front-end development to dev-ops.
Senior Frontend Developer at Emesa BV
September 1, 2011 - October 23, 2025Helped stabilize the legacy auction platform while developing the new auction platform in a team of 4.
Freelance Senior Developer at Keesing
December 1, 2009 - October 23, 2025Freelance Senior Developer
Freelance Developer at MadCap Software
June 1, 2008 - October 23, 2025Developed several websites in Drupal
PHP Developer at Advance
May 1, 2007 - October 23, 2025Advance, PHP Developer
Owner at CPAD
December 1, 2005 - October 23, 2025CPAD
Webmaster / PHP Developer at Pauze Media Exploitatie
January 1, 2004 - October 23, 2025Webmaster / PHP Developer
Interim CTO at Dewi Online
December 31, 2024 - December 31, 2024Assisted with a complete review of development processes and code. Integrated a new offshore team upgrading existing apps built in React Native.
Founder at Fortitude IT
January 1, 2020 - October 28, 2025Assisting several companies with hosting and software development issues. Managing developers, implementing best practices. Building and optimizing hosting clusters in AWS. Setting up CI pipelines.
Software Architect at Junior Einstein
January 1, 2021 - October 28, 2025Led the transformation of the application from an immature state with manual deployment to a mature state with a team of 5 developers using automated testing via GitHub Actions. Migrated the application to AWS ECS to improve scalability and performance. Established a streamlined deployment process using tagging and Docker images, reducing deployment time and increasing efficiency.
CTO at Eurocios Freetime S.L
December 31, 2019 - December 31, 2019Led the IT team, overseeing up to 7 people. Merged codebase from 5 repositories into a single platform using Yii2 backend and React frontend. Managed iOS and Android app development. Oversaw migration of Ubeo's platform to Cloud.nl cloud platform.
IT Director at Eurocios Freetime S.L
March 31, 2015 - March 31, 2015Set up development strategies and built a self-sustainable, flexible team delivering features incrementally. Improved platform stability by implementing best practices.
Team Lead at Emesa BV
July 31, 2014 - July 31, 2014Managed several development teams with different specialties, from front-end development to dev-ops.
Senior Frontend Developer at Emesa BV
September 30, 2011 - September 30, 2011Helped stabilize the legacy auction platform while developing the new auction platform in a team of 4.
Freelance Senior Developer at Keesing
December 31, 2009 - December 31, 2009Freelance Developer at MadCap Software
June 30, 2008 - June 30, 2008Developed several websites in Drupal
PHP Developer at Advance
May 31, 2007 - May 31, 2007Owner at CPAD
December 31, 2005 - December 31, 2005Webmaster / PHP Developer at Pauze Media Exploitatie
January 31, 2004 - January 31, 2004Education
Propadeuse in Informatie voorziening en informatie technologie (IVIT) at De Haagse Hogeschool (The Hague University of Applied Sciences)
August 1, 1998 - June 30, 2000Qualifications
Certified Scrum Master
August 1, 2010 - October 28, 2025Industry Experience
Software & Internet, Professional Services, Computers & Electronics, Media & Entertainment
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