Coding with Passion, Delivering with Precision​

At a.s.r., one of the largest insurers in the Netherlands, I build and maintain the corporate website and the policy application flow, the main entry point for every incoming insurance application. I work inside a scrum team of 7 developers, 9 people in total, on flows used by hundreds of thousands of people.

• Took ownership of the release process. I designed it end to end, ran it and chaired the ceremonies around it, so releases became routine and stakeholders knew what was shipping and when.
• Cut the internal errors that were causing applications to fail part way through, so fewer customers drop out of a process that is high stakes for them.
• Extended the policy application flow and the calculation tool to support dozens more employers, letting thousands of additional employees arrange cover through it.
• Migrated the corporate site from Sitecore and Vite to headless Contentstack and Nuxt.js.
• Restructured the component layer, added automated test coverage and coordinated a platform wide rollout around live campaigns and planned releases.
• Worked with business and IT stakeholders to keep technical delivery aligned with what the business was trying to achieve.

Stack: .NET, Sitecore, Contentstack, Vue.js, Nuxt.js, Vite.

Read the a.s.r. policy application flow case study.

I carried on with Qfact as a freelancer after my permanent years there, in a focused delivery role for QIntelligence.

• Led the QIntelligence initiative end to end, from the document indexing foundations through to a full automated content analysis system.
• Built the analysis pipeline on NLP tooling and large language models, and put it in front of the people who had been doing the reading by hand.
• Delivered a system that cut administrative workload and improved the accuracy of project recommendations for platform users.

Stack: Python, Flask, spaCy, NLTK, Gensim, Llama 2.

Read the QIntelligence document analysis case study.

Boekjaar is an accounting SaaS startup. I worked directly with the co founder, which meant short lines and production ready work quickly.

• Designed and implemented a data warehouse that structures financial data for automated annual reporting and for core platform functionality.
• Implemented 25 MySQL data warehouse tables modelling fiscal year reporting data, so the platform could replace manual analysis with automated reporting workflows.
• Built integrations with the accounting systems Exact Online and e-Boekhouden.

Stack: Node.js, AWS Serverless, MySQL.

I led the development team at Qfact, a microservices SaaS platform used daily by thousands. I owned the architectural decisions, the code quality bar and the delivery process, and I took the team’s case into the product roadmap discussions.

• Led 4 developers as direct reports, and hired 2 people who stayed with the company long term.
• Introduced measurable sprint velocity where none existed, which is what made delivery predictable.
• Eliminated recurring user facing bug classes, which never came back after the fixes.
• Built a configurable reporting tool that let organisations self serve 25+ frequently requested use cases without a developer.
• Made the architectural decisions and presented them to the team, and trained the junior engineers coming up behind me.
• Managed internal and external stakeholders, and contributed to strategic discussions on Qfact’s software product roadmap.

Stack: Node.js, Python, microservices, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, RabbitMQ, Vue.js.

Read the SaaS platform development and leadership case study.

I started my career at Qfact. My first years there went into the microservices behind the SaaS platform and the application layer on top of them.

• Designed and implemented full stack solutions, from the services and the data model up to the interface.
• Added audit capability through event sourcing, which met the compliance requirements the platform’s government users had to satisfy.
• Kept a long lived SaaS codebase maintainable by applying SOLID and Clean Code principles.
• Worked with a team of engineers in an agile environment (SCRUM).

Stack: Node.js, Python, event sourcing, MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Vue.js.

Read the event sourcing case study.