Brabantine City Row
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.
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)
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
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
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