CV

Software Tech Lead & Entrepreneur

I love to start companies and work with both small and big teams building awesome user experiences and setting up software architectures. As an entrepreneur I've co-founded both bootstrapped companies with small teams, as well as fast-growing VC-funded startups.

Personal details

Experience

Examplary

Co-Founder, CTO (2024 — present)

Building tools to help teachers create, conduct and grade tests more efficiently, using modern technology and AI.

NearSt

Head of Engineering (2015 — 2017, 2019 — 2025)

Connecting shoppers with products in local shops. Built a team of 6 engineers and 1 product manager, and led the development of a product data processing pipeline with 1bn+ events per day, processing updates for 33m+ products in thousands of stores across the UK, US and Europe.

Infowijs

Co-Founder, CTO (2017 — 2019)

Building tools to help schools communicate better. Infowijs supports almost 200 Dutch schools in their communication with students and parents through tools like Hoy, an app that teachers can use to stay in touch with parents via chats and news, as well as Schoolwiki, a digital replacement for paper school guides.

Scholica

Co-Founder, Tech Lead (2013 — 2017)

Open online learning platform. Scholica helps students quickly access all the tools they need to make the most of their high school years, and gives parents the tools to help their child along in the best way they can.

Education

University of Amsterdam

English Literature and Linguistics (2015 — 2017)

Bernardinuscollege Heerlen

Gymnasium (2009 — 2012), Atheneum (2013 — 2015)

Skills

Engineering leadership

  • Leading technical direction for engineering teams
  • Architecture of back-end and front-end application structures, specifically with relation to event-driven microservices architectures
  • AWS cloud management, with a focus on security, reliability and cost management

Software development

  • AWS cloud services and serverless development (Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, Kinesis, Step Functions, etc.)
  • Front-end application development (React, Electron, etc.)
  • Back-end & API development (Node.js, PHP, Docker, SQL databases, etc.)
  • Native and mobile app development (React Native, Swift, C#)

Misc

  • Basic UI and UX design skills and understanding of accessibility and human interface guidelines
  • Top level project and stakeholder management, agile project development