Bart van de Garde

CTO or Engineering Manager ◆ MBA, BSc, Certified Data Scientist ◆ Passionate about connecting technology, data, business and people

Brabantine City Row

About

Freelance CTO or Software Engineering Manager with a passion for connecting technology, data, business and people 💻 💸 🙋‍♂️. I help business owners to get the best out of technologies and their teams. I help software engineering teams level up 💪 to excite their customers 👏 and grow the business 📈. If you are looking for help with a digital transformation or software engineering department send me a message! I am offering my expertise for interim software engineering management and leadership positions like CTO, Engineering manager, IT Manager, technical product manager. I have 24 years of experience in software development and IT operations, of which 20 years in a technical leadership role. Extensive experience in e-commerce, recruitment, hr tech, ed tech, gaming and e-learning industries. Furthermore, I hold an MBA degree from TIAS School for Business and Society, a Bsc degree in Computer Science from University of Utrecht and I finished a program at Jheronimus Academy of Data Science to become a certified lead data scientist. Colleagues told me they loved to work with me because I am reliable, versatile, calm, optimistic and have strong analytical skills. I consider myself an independent, strategic thinker with an international view and strong technical intuition. I speak the language of the business and engineers and have excellent communication and leadership skills to bring them together. Buzz and keywords that apply to me: software engineering, system engineering, leadership, management, people management, technology strategy, saas, scaleups, agile, scrum, devops, agile, cloud, aws, linux, architecture, cto, cio, hr-tech, games, e-commerce, php, java, scala, python, ruby on rails, data science, data engineering.

Experience

  • Software Engineering Manager (a.i.) at Essent
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Interim Chief Technology Officer at Freelance
    Sep 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 10 mos

    As freelance CTO and engineering leader I help organisations with their digital challenges and engineering teams. I help CEO's and business owners build, leverage and empower IT engineering teams, data and technologies. I help engineers and engineering teams grow to excite customers and grow the business. I am offering my expertise for interim engineering management and leadership positions like CTO, CIO, Engineering manager, IT Manager. Some of the clients I advised: ➤ Rainforest Alliance (non profit, sustainable supply chains) ➤ bol.com (e-commerce) ➤ Digivotion (hr tech) ➤ CodeName Future (educational tech) ➤ Barendse Consultancy (hr tech, assessments)

  • Engineering Manager (a.i.) at bol.com
    Jan 2022 - Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    Software Engineering Manager (a.i.) for various bol.com's software products and engineering teams including the teams for checkout, inspirational shopping and display advertising in the bol webshop. Technologies: Java, Kotlin, Google Cloud, React, Python

  • Software Engineering Manager a.i. at Rainforest Alliance
    Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Managing the software development, architecture and platform teams of Rainforest Alliance to deliver systems for roll out of the new certification standard and process of Rainforest Alliance. Technologies: Outsystems

  • Chief Technology Officer at VONQ
    Mar 2018 - Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    CTO at VONQ smart recruitment marketing. With my teams we build and innovated the smart job recruitment marketing platform. The platform contained e-commerce flows, machine learned recommendations, job multiposting, tracking and analytics. Achieved results: ➤ Build out and matured the product & engineering teams to multiple scrum teams (from 15 to 30 people) ➤ Simplified platform architecture and infrastructure by updating and phasing out legacy systems ➤ Piloted and migrated data science stack and workflow from Scala to Python, Databricks, AWS ➤ Build and launched API based service ➤ Led the engineering vision, growth plan, and due dilligence to have Capital D invest in VONQ. ➤ Restructured engineering team due to the business impact of Corona Technologies: php, javascript, scala, python, aws, react, symfony, snowplow, spark, machine learning, data science, salesforce