As of June 2023 I am Head of Software Delivery at Essent. The software teams deliver and run solutions that help customers in the energy transition. Besides we make a tech transformation from low-code solutions to custom built services on a serverless platform. I am member of the IT Leadership Team together with the CIO, the head of architecture and the head of platform. My teams consists of 5 engineering managers. Each of them manages a product domain with 6 to 8 teams, adding up to about 240 team members in total.

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In 2022 and 2023 I helped bol.com deliver their new in-house solution for payment and invoice matching and for managing outstanding payment balances. I was responsible for both business results and IT deliverables. We were organized in 3 software engineering teams and 2 business teams. The solution called MatchMaker consisted of multiples services. Functionally we achieved over 99,5% automatic matching and we delivered a UI for efficiently manging the non-matches. Technically we paid attention to non-functionals, so we could scale up an support bol.com’s future business models.

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From 2020 to 2022 I worked at Sendcloud where I helped scale the tech organisation to support the company’s growth with focus on the delivery organisation and people development:

  • From June 2020 to June 2022 we grew from 28 people in engineering and product to almost 100
  • We grew from 3 product teams, to 8 software development teams, 3 platform teams and a product & design team
  • We went from 5 people at our offshore integration partner to 35 engineers at 2 offshore partners

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I helped AholdDelhaize to update their IT strategy for 2019. Today I still work for them as advisor and mentor. I work for AholdDelhaize via Riverflex.

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At KrampHub I helped launch their new marketplace Maykers.com. Maykers was built using a low code plaform on top of their headless e-commerce platform.

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For Parkmobile I ran the mobile app development teams. During that time we worked on merging the the code base of different banners (Parkmobile, ParkNow and more) so we could generate apps from the core template.

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I worked at bol.com as software engineering manager, introducing the personalised shopping experience. After that at bol.com I was responsible for the technical platform teams and helped introduce SRE teams and DevOps ways of working.

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At Coosto I was CTO. I helped them scale by moving to a loosely coupled architecture, by developing the teams and by building a scalable platform.

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