Lead/Staff Developer with 20 years of experience in software engineering, specializing in scalable, maintainable and
performant full-stack architectures. Strong foundation in interaction design and crafting delightful web
experiences. Proven ability to lead teams, architect complex systems, and drive technical excellence while fostering
collaboration across business and engineering teams.
Passionate about intuitive interfaces, simple solutions, and anything web—but cares more about people. Autonomous,
curious, and always eager to learn. Strong opinions, weakly held. Strong values, strongly held.
Turns coffee into code.
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Core Competencies
Technical Leadership & Strategy:
Engineering strategy, scalable system architecture, mentoring teams, and enabling high-performance engineering
cultures.
Front End technical lead for multiple projects (but same core team) in the Web3 space:
reNFT, an NFT rentals platform; 021, a Web3 innovation laboratory;
Rumble Kong League, a fast-paced 3v3 competitive basketball game.
Designed and implemented multiple scalable full-stack architectures: Endgame (reNFT v3 NFT rentals),
Coin.fun (memecoin launching & trading), and a fantasy baseball web
game with bets and chats.
Led front-end technical direction, onboarding, mentorship, and hiring of peers.
Responsible for project/sprint breakdowns, planning and retrospectives.
Updated SKDs and other developer tooling; provided developer and user support.
Pro4all creates software solutions which support many processes utilized in construction: from document management
to on-site quality control. Pro4all improves teamwork.
Co-responsible for front-end technical direction of the core product,
ProStream.
Aligned product owners, designers and users on feature direction.
Architected, built, and optimized core features and libraries.
Implemented and optimized Azure CI/CD pipelines.
Mentored team members; started and chaired the front-end guild.
Established front-end/React best practices, testing methodologies, PR & code review guidelines.
Digital product and web agency for clear strategy and crisp interaction. Worked for clients like Elsevier, Alcon,
Edenspiekermann, International Card Services, Van Herwerden, de Volkskrant, Sony Music NL and Quirido publishers.
Responsible for technical direction, front to back, operations & infrastructure.
Designed, implemented, and scaled full-stack web applications of varying complexity and across many industries.
Highlights: CSS architecture, optimized critical path rendering and implemented WCAG 2.1
compliance for Elsevier Reaxys. Designed & developed an interactive longreads platform and publisher tooling
for Quirido. Designed and developed the webshop for the largest bike retailer in NL, van Herwerden.
Freelance Designer & Developer
Refract, Utrecht, NL
I started my professional journey onto the web as a freelance web designer & developer.
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Education
New Media & Digital Culture
MA @ Utrecht University, Humanties, Utrecht, NL
Socio-historical, philosophical research of media's interplay with society, culture and the self. Finished all
coursework.
Digital Communication
BSc @ Utrecht UAS, Communication, Utrecht, NL
Communication & strategy, project management, system architecture, interaction design, UX design and usability.
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Miscelaneous
Open Source
I developed my own Vim theme called FANSI. Initially in
VimScript, later ported to Lua for NeoVim. Still being maintained.
Minor contributions to a myriad of different tools and toolchains I’ve used over the years, ranging from Vim
plugins, shell tools, PHP libraries, Blockchain SDKs, etc.
Languages
Fluent English in speech and writing. Fluent Dutch in speech and writing. Can talk to computers.
Interest & Leisure
Loves learning new tech (currently: Nix). Supporting a Human 1.0 LTS deployments (i.e. daughter) with my wife and
feline. Reading: technology, history & society, some philosophy, sci-fi. Music: a force of human nature! I
sing and play guitar. Sports: bouldering and skateboarding. Friends & family, a bit of gaming—hit me up for
some Factorio, Minecraft or Rocket League!