Daniël van Gils is a Cloud Native Architect at Thales. He helps Thales to succeed with Cloud Native thinking & technology in the Naval domain. He’s been involved in the high tech, creative technologies, and gaming industries. An accomplished creative technologist and architect, Daniel has vast and varied experience in application development, agile workflows, lecturing and building cloud native technologies at scale. In his spare time he experiments with strawberries in his backyard, likes to surf and practices improvisation theater.