Summary
Engineering manager with 20+ years in software, from writing code to leading teams. I simplify complexity and remove whatever stands in a team's way, so people can grow and quality software reaches production fast.
Experience
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Designed, built and launched multiple digital products, including developer tooling for AI coding agents, SaaS applications and e-commerce platforms.
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Managed 4 DevOps teams (20 people) within the IT department of the Dutch National Police, translating organisational goals into team objectives. Coached people in their growth through feedback and conversations about their ambitions. Responsible for budget, capacity planning and hiring.
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Helped organisations and their people grow through talks, training and hands-on support with product and software problems. Contributed to the internal newsletter, blogs and podcast.
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Led a team of 4 developers responsible for Wehkamp's financial systems, covering payments, pricing, reconciliation and general ledger.
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Built the development culture for the new Amsterdam office. Hired around 10 developers, coached them in their growth and set the technical strategy.
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Drove product discovery with the product owner and the customer, using Agile and Lean methods to decide what to build. Supported the team in replacing parts of the legacy system with a new product built on reactive programming and event sourcing.
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Joined as lead of 5 developers to raise team performance on an existing product. Introduced continuous deployment, DevOps and agile practices, and coached the team in Java.
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Led a team of 14 developers from one release every two weeks to 50 per day while practically eliminating downtime, by introducing kanban, pair programming, continuous integration and continuous deployment. Trained the team in Clean Code, TDD and DDD through bi-weekly presentations.
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Transformed how the company develops software, together with a FourScouts colleague, after it struggled to scale. Gave workshops on legacy software, automated testing, DDD, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, trunk-based development and continuous delivery.
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Technical and agile coaching at NetYce and Motopp. Product coaching and strategy support to the CEO at Greenaumatic. Hands-on engineering at FixMind and AutoTrack.
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Spent 7 years at mijndomein.nl across a wide range of products and engineering practices. Tech lead on Mijndomein Auto and mentor to junior engineers. Replaced legacy systems with microservices, introduced CI/CD and trunk-based development, and fought fraud with data mining. Integrated multiple third-party SaaS providers and worked in several programming languages, applying domain-driven design, test-driven development, scrum, kanban and Docker.
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Technically responsible for projects at GGD Den Haag, Eli Lilly, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and KPN.
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Built games and websites for an online gaming company.
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Migrated systems from Windows NT to Windows Server 2003 and set up multiple Linux machines.
Skills
Leadership
Process
Architecture & Design
Languages
Education
Hogeschool Utrecht
Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology
Volunteer
AutCraft.nl Feb 2026 – Present
Leading AutCraft, a Minecraft community platform providing a safe and inclusive environment for children and adults with neurodiverse conditions or an autism diagnosis.