Damian Hinz is a Cloud & DevOps Senior Consultant and CISA-certified trainer at Scalefree, a leading data consulting firm that empowers businesses to harness the full potential of their data. He works at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, automation, and IT security, helping organizations build data platforms that are not only fast to deliver but also governed, auditable, and secure by design.
Damian Hinz’s Career
Damian joined Scalefree in 2023 and has grown from DevOps Specialist into a senior role with company-wide responsibility for cloud infrastructure, security, and internal enablement:
- May 2026: Cloud & DevOps Senior Consultant
- Apr 2024: Cloud & DevOps Consultant
- Apr 2024: B.Sc. Computer Science, Leibniz University Hannover
- Apr 2023: DevOps Specialist – Working Student
Since then, he has supported clients in manufacturing, energy, and software with secure, automated cloud and data platforms, and holds certifications across cloud architecture, automation, and IT audit:
- 2026: Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
- 2026: dbt Cloud Architect
- 2025: Flow.BI Professional
- 2024: AWS Solutions Architect Associate
- 2023: HashiCorp Terraform Associate
Damian Hinz’s Skillset
- Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure as Code: Designing and operating infrastructure across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, provisioned entirely as code with Terraform, including cost governance and optimization at the organizational level.
- DevOps & Automation: Building CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps for automated testing and deployment to Snowflake and dbt platforms, alongside branching strategies and environment setups that keep releases predictable.
- Security, Identity & Audit: Identity and access management in AWS IAM and Microsoft Entra ID, identity federation and role-based access control, SSO and MFA enforcement, and Zero-Trust security concepts, backed by CISA certification in IT audit and control.
- Monitoring, Enablement & Training: Monitoring and alerting with Grafana and Datadog, plus onboarding, code reviews, and regular training sessions for colleagues and client teams in cloud, DevOps, and IT security.
Damian firmly believes that a certificate is only worth as much as the understanding behind it. Frameworks like CISA describe controls in the abstract, but the people implementing them work in real environments with real constraints, and that gap is where most security work quietly fails.
Damian is passionate about leaving knowledge behind rather than dependencies. He combines hands-on cloud and automation experience with an auditor’s perspective, helping organizations turn governance requirements from a recurring burden into a stable foundation they own themselves.
