Bas Hendrikx
Head of Digital Cloud Networks at O2 Telefónica Germany
Bas Hendrikx is the Head of Digital Cloud Networks at O2 Telefónica Germany. He leads the teams driving the DevOps and Cloud-Native transformation across the Mobile Data Core, Signaling, Fixed Engineering, and Voice interconnect domains, spearheading the company's Autonomous Network journey.
A passionate change agent for the telecom industry, Bas played a pivotal role in Telefónica Germany’s transformation, including pioneering the deployment of its 5G Core and Cloud-Native Functions onto hyperscalers like AWS.
Building on earlier leadership roles at Telefónica and Vodafone (Cloud & Telco Cloud), Bas uniquely combines deep network engineering expertise with a product-driven mindset. He orchestrates large-scale transformation, champions DevOps ways of working, and is focused on driving 5G monetization through automation and network slicing.
His landmark achievement is the implementation of In-Software-Service Upgrades (ISSU) at scale: Telefónica Germany is the first global leader to successfully scale this solution, executing seamless upgrades during office hours based on an E2E cloud-native core.
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