Software engineer focused on backend systems, distributed
architectures, and product delivery. I build reliable systems end to
end, from system design and implementation to rollout and operational
improvement, with experience across internal platforms, customer-facing
SaaS products, and AI-enabled features. My strongest work has been in
technically demanding environments where architecture quality and
measurable performance gains both matter.
Primary TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, SQL
Backend & Architecture .NET Core, ASP.NET, FastAPI, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, API design, system design, performance optimization
Frontend React, HTML, CSS, Astro, Angular
Data & AI Pandas, NumPy, Spark, PyTorch, machine learning, LLM product integration, observability
Platform & DevOps Azure, AWS, Docker, Git, Azure DevOps, Redis, RabbitMQ, Vercel
Senior Software Engineer, Wehkamp
2024 – Present Zwolle, The Netherlands
- Built the Image Management System (IMS) from the ground up to replace Wehkamp's legacy image platform, building both frontend and backend for a modern internal product serving 30+ users and processing up to 30,000 images per day.
- Improved order management performance by 10x in a core workflow by addressing processing bottlenecks.
- Helped drive AI adoption by introducing Langfuse for observability, contributing to the shopping assistant, and building a PIM-focused AI concept that won first place in an internal hackathon.
- Implemented image segmentation and classification model integrations to support image-processing workflows in production.
- Contributed to high-performance infrastructure projects, including systems for merging multiple data streams efficiently and an internal tool for Kafka topic migration during broker decommissioning.
Senior Software Developer, Suneco
2023 – 2024 Zwolle, The Netherlands
- Developed custom software projects in close collaboration with clients.
- At Innofeet, helped migrate a legacy portal from C# and ASP.NET 4.5 to .NET 8, splitting the monolith into a separate API and web application.
- Led a team of two developers, built the API, and set up OTAP environments in Azure.
- Created migration tooling, including automation for converting synchronous code to asynchronous code and a validator that compared millions of database rows to verify the new system against the legacy implementation.
Co-founder (part-time, alongside employment),
Exante.ai
2019 – Present Zwolle, The Netherlands
- Built and shipped software products and consultancy projects alongside full-time employment, covering product development, backend systems, and AI-enabled user experiences.
- Built an automatic student-internship allocation system for StageMonitor using a minimum-cost flow algorithm to match students to healthcare internships.
- Built ApeelingAI, a SaaS platform for dynamic, context-aware chatbots that has served 1,000+ users.
- Created GPT-Detective, an early Dutch-language AI text detection tool used by 10,000+ users to scan 55,000 documents.
- Developed Lovitations, a boutique wedding website platform with AI-assisted copy and RSVP flows, and MijnRouwkaart, a digital funeral card and memorial-page platform for sharing practical information, condolences, and memories in a respectful way.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Selected from 1,100+ candidates for an internship project at Databricks.
- Researched Spark scheduler improvements for interactive workloads, optimizing the existing scheduler and developing a new architecture that separated scheduler logic from RPC processing, batched status updates, and deployed multiple schedulers in parallel.
- In prototype testing on Spark 3.1.0, the new design improved throughput by 17x and achieved sub-millisecond latency in large clusters.
- The work also exposed network and central RPC queue bottlenecks at scale.
Teaching Assistant, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2018 – 2019 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Teaching Assistant for Advanced Programming and Statistical Methods courses.
- Guided and graded bachelor students on theoretical and practical assignments in Scala and R.
Software Engineer, Körbler
2017 – 2018 Graz, Austria
- Worked on client-facing software projects in an international environment after completing my internship.
Bachelor Graduation Internship, NCIM Group
2017 The Hague, The Netherlands
- Completed my graduation internship on a professional software project as part of the HBO-ICT program.
Bachelor Internship, Körbler
2017 Graz, Austria
- Completed an internship in Austria focused on practical software engineering in a production setting.
Master Computer Science (joint degree)
2018 – 2022 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam
Grade 8.6, cum laude
- Thesis on data management challenges in microservice architectures, including distributed transactions, data consistency, and service integration, implemented in Java.
- Developed a reusable approach for coordinating transactions and synchronizing a relational model across services.
- Validated the approach through end-to-end and manual testing.
Pre-Master Computer Science
2017 – 2018 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Grade 9.2
Bachelor HBO-ICT
2014 – 2017 University of Applied Sciences Windesheim
Grade 8.5
- Analyzed, processed, and visualized Landsat satellite imagery.
- Built the LSDE Earth Viewer to observe geolocation changes over time using Web Mercator projection.
- Investigated the effect of JavaScript dead code on mobile web app load time and energy consumption.
