There’s a moment Lasse remembers clearly. Working in infrastructure, managing physical servers, getting woken up at 3 am to go change a hard drive. It was the kind of work that kept things running, but it was also the kind of work that made him think: there has to be a better way.
Google Cloud was the better way.
“I decided, for once in my life, I want to dedicate myself to one particular technology,” he says. “And I chose to become good at Google Cloud and have worked with that ever since.”
A career built from the ground up
Lasse didn’t arrive at cloud architecture through a straight line. He got his first job as a web developer at 16. From there, he moved through system administration, team leadership, data centre operations, the full stack of infrastructure, hands-on and unglamorous. Years of building, fixing, maintaining, and running things that other people relied on without ever thinking twice about.
That background is exactly what makes him effective today. When he talks to customers about Google Cloud, he’s not speaking theoretically. He’s speaking from experience, including the experience of what life looks like without it.
What he actually does
Lasse is a Cloud Architect at Devoteam, based in Denmark and part of the Google Cloud team. His work sits at the intersection of technical delivery and customer enablement, helping organisations get trained on Google Cloud, onboarding them to the platform, and building the infrastructure they need to run on it.
“What I usually say is that I enable customers using Google Cloud,” he explains. The word enable is deliberate. This isn’t just implementation work. It’s about making sure customers can actually use what they’ve built and keep using it, confidently, every day.
That last part matters to him. “Knowing it’s something that is being used every day is satisfying.” For someone who spent years keeping the lights on in data centres, the shift to work that scales and sticks is meaningful.
The Devoteam–Google edge
One thing Lasse is direct about: the relationship between Devoteam and Google is a genuine differentiator for him, for the customer, and for the work itself.
“The client benefits from the tight collaboration between Devoteam and Google. It benefits all of us together: Devoteam, Google, and the customer.” It’s not a talking point for him. It’s something he sees play out in the room, in the projects, in the outcomes.
No two days the same
Ask Lasse what a normal day looks like, and he’ll tell you it doesn’t exist. Some days it’s meetings in the Copenhagen office. Others, it’s a ferry across the country. Sometimes it’s a trip to Sweden or Norway to work with customers on-site.
“Having relationships with different clients that have different needs, different cultures, different countries, different locations, I really enjoy the life.”
It’s a good line. And you believe it.