HeleCloud, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner based in the UK, Bulgaria and the Netherlands, announced the appointment of Walter Heck as Group Chief Technology Officer.
Heck’s appointment comes after a strong year of growth for HeleCloud, with the company recording a 70 percent revenue growth rate in 2020 while also adding more than 30 AWS consultants and engineers.
In his role as CTO, Heck will be primarily responsible for maintaining this growth by expanding HeleCloud’s technical offerings to its customers and working to attract the best AWS consultants.
HeleCloud completed the acquisition of Cloud-native software development company DataStork, enabling HeleCloud to expand its expertise into the Cloud-native software development and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ ML) space. Heck will be responsible for ensuring these capabilities are integrated with HeleCloud’s existing professional and managed service offerings.
Based in the Netherlands, Heck spent the last two years as HeleCloud’s Netherlands CTO, where he was responsible for ensuring HeleCloud Netherland’s operation had the technical excellence expected of an AWS infrastructure specialist. Before joining HeleCloud, Walter was CEO of DevOps service provider OlinData, which HeleCloud subsequently acquired.
Following the appointment to his new role, Heck said: “AWS, and the Public Cloud marketplace as a whole, is on a rapid growth trajectory, and this presents us with two challenges: talent acquisition and technical innovation. As we expand our technical capabilities to remain at the forefront of innovation, we must also continue to attract the best AWS consultants. We want to ensure that AWS consultants and engineers know that if they join HeleCloud, they will have the opportunity to work on the most innovative AWS projects. As we look to continue our growth during the next year, this will be one of my primary objectives.”
