Solution architect · Utrecht, Netherlands

Achille
Tuglo

I turn complex systems into platforms teams can trust.

Cloud-native architecture, legacy modernisation and hands-on delivery for organisations where the software has to survive real business, security and production constraints.

Portrait of Achille Tuglo

Architecture becomes valuable
when it reaches production.

11+years building
production software
3BrainBay engagements
in 12 months
2cloud ecosystems
AWS · Azure
CurrentlyConsultant at Xebia

From architecture decisions
to software that runs.

I work at the point where system design meets delivery. That means shaping the architecture, writing the critical code and leaving teams with systems they can operate and evolve.

The hard parts,
made workable.

01

Cloud-native platforms

End-to-end platform design across application and infrastructure, with operability, security and local reproducibility built in.

AWS · Azure · Kubernetes
.NET · PostgreSQL · Helm

02

Legacy modernisation

Incremental routes out of monoliths and ageing services that protect existing callers, data and operational continuity.

Oracle PL/SQL · SQL Server
.NET Framework · WCF

03

Hands-on architecture

Architecture decisions grounded in implementation: APIs, domain models, event flows, deployment paths and the code behind them.

C# · TypeScript · SQL
DDD · CQRS · Event-driven

04

AI-assisted engineering

Deterministic guardrails around generated code, so teams can distinguish validator-clean output from software that is genuinely safe to run.

GitHub Copilot · Python
Kotlin · Validation systems

Evidence over
adjectives.

Selected engagements where the architecture had to answer to production.

NVM-BrainBay · Valuation Exchange · 2026

A valuation data platform, from first endpoint to production.

02

Designed and built a greenfield platform that validates, parses, indexes and redistributes appraisal reports.

Design choice
Reporting schemas discovered from storage instead of seeded by hand.
Result
A new standard can be onboarded by file upload, without a migration and release.
.NET 10AWS EKSLambdaPostgreSQLXBRL

NVM-BrainBay · Wonen · 2026—Now

Pricing advice that degrades in a way users can trust.

03

Backend design for new-build valuation, where comparable sales are scarce and reliability matters as much as the number.

Core logic
Price-per-m² computation and indexation at project, property-type and property level.
Fallback
Postcode cluster to national data, gated by reliability at every step.
C#.NETSQLDomain modelling

EDF · New Nuclear Engineering · September 2018—December 2024

From stale batch reporting to live operational supervision.

04

Modernised a legacy estate built on .NET MVC, SQL Server 2008, SSAS, SSIS and large stored procedures. The rebuild pushed live state to the browser, replacing information that users had to request and wait for.

“The change that mattered wasn't the framework. It was moving supervision from something you requested to something that was simply true on the screen.”
.NETVue 3WebSocketsSQL ServerOAuth2CI/CD

Adecco YOSS · Microsoft Azure · May 2017—September 2018

Designing an Azure-native platform for external users.

05

Cloud-native development across the YOSS platform: microservices and Azure Functions, Service Bus integration, B2C authentication for external users and geolocation-aware search.

“The valuable part was the design work: proposing approaches to senior Microsoft architects, defending them, then turning those decisions into working software.”
Microsoft AzureAzure FunctionsService BusAzure B2CMicroservicesGeolocation search
“An architecture decision that never gets implemented is just an opinion.”

So I stay close to the code.

A decade of systems
that had to hold up.

2025—Now

Xebia

Consultant · Netherlands

Four engagements across NVM-BrainBay and Ahold Delhaize: solution architecture, backend delivery and AI-assisted modernisation.

2018—2025

Independent

Software consultant

Six and a half years across industrial systems, e-commerce and legacy modernisation, including more than six years supporting EDF.

2016—2018

TALAN / ai3

Consultant

Cloud-native Azure platforms for Adecco and integration-heavy applications for Vinci Construction.

2014—2016

Sogeti

Consultant

Production support and evolution for Bouygues Telecom's pricing and online-sales applications.

Certifications.

Industry credentials across the cloud and Microsoft application ecosystem.

Amazon Web Services

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

Cloud certification

Microsoft

MCSD: App Builder

Application certification

Two schools.
One engineering path.

A joint-degree programme completed across Morocco and France.

2013—2014

Université de Bretagne Occidentale

MSc, Software and Embedded Systems

Brest, France

2012—2014

Institut National des Postes et Télécommunications (INPT)

Engineering Degree, Software Engineering

Rabat, Morocco

Tools follow
the problem.

No arbitrary percentages. These are the technologies and practices I use to move work from design to production.

Architecture

Solution Architecture · DDD · CQRS · Event-driven systems · REST · gRPC · ADRs · System Design

Engineering

C# · .NET · TypeScript · JavaScript · SQL · PowerShell · Python · Kotlin

Cloud & platform

AWS · Azure · Kubernetes · EKS · AKS · Lambda · Helm · Docker · CloudFormation

Data & operations

PostgreSQL · SQL Server · Oracle PL/SQL · Redis · OpenSearch · OpenTelemetry · CI/CD

Based in Utrecht
Working across Europe

Curious enough to challenge the design. Practical enough to ship it.

I'm a solution architect and engineer at Xebia in the Netherlands. Before that, I spent six and a half years as an independent consultant, mostly modernising the systems behind EDF's new-nuclear engineering supervision.

My best work sits between disciplines: understanding the business rule, drawing the system boundary, implementing the difficult path and making sure the result can be operated by the team that inherits it.

French · native English · professional Dutch · elementary AWS & Microsoft certified

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