Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
I believe the best products are built by empowered, autonomous, and well-structured teams. Having evolved from a decade as a Senior Frontend Engineer into 5+ years of leadership at high-growth companies like Vinted and Laiye, I bridge the gap between technical complexity and organisational impact. My Approach: I am hands-off by design. I leverage my technical foundation to steer architectural strategy and remove systemic blockers, allowing me to focus 100% on organisational health, team performance, and cross-functional alignment. Core Impact: • Scaling & Culture: Experienced in growing distributed teams from 4 to 15+ engineers while maintaining high retention and a culture of psychological safety. • AI & Marketplace Innovation: Led squads in delivering AI-powered support systems and ML-infused automation that directly improved operational efficiency for global platforms. • People Development: Committed to building a leadership bench; I've mentored 5 engineers into Senior roles and 2 into Engineering Management. • Operational Excellence: Expert in utilising DORA metrics and feedback loops to optimise delivery velocity, achieving a 25% increase in team output. Based in Amsterdam. Always happy to connect regarding engineering culture, scaling challenges, or the future of AI in product development.
Engineering Manager (AI Support & Marketplace Efficiency) Strategic Domain Ownership: Direct accountability for the AI-powered Customer Support domain, leading multiple cross-functional squads to automate support for a marketplace of 75M+ users. Organisational Scaling: Successfully mentored 5 engineers into Senior positions and 1 into Engineering Management, establishing a self-sustaining leadership bench and a clear path for internal progression. Interim Domain Leadership: Appointed to steer the domain’s technical and product strategy during a 6-month vacancy, ensuring roadmap continuity, high-level stakeholder alignment, and zero disruption in delivery. Operational Excellence: Improved delivery velocity by 25% through the implementation of DORA metrics, optimized Agile workflows, and structural reorganization of engineering squads. Strategic Governance: Oversaw complex cross-domain ownership transfers and codebase migrations, aligning infrastructure and product requirements with long-term company scalability goals. Cultural Health: Introduced data-driven retrospectives and psychological safety frameworks, resulting in a 30% increase in team satisfaction and engagement scores.
Senior Engineering Manager (Conversational AI & Automation) - Scalable Department Leadership: Directed two distributed engineering squads (15+ engineers), overseeing the end-to-end development of conversational AI and enterprise automation solutions. - Strategic Growth & Scaling: Led the department through a rapid growth phase, doubling the team size (8 to 15+) while maintaining high cultural standards and operational stability. - Leadership Development: Successfully mentored a Senior Engineer into an Engineering Manager role, while establishing formal growth ladders and performance frameworks that improved overall department retention. - Organisational Infrastructure: Architected and implemented formal engineering growth ladders and performance frameworks, directly resulting in improved employee retention and a clear pipeline for senior promotions. - Operational Impact: Spearheaded the delivery of ML-infused automation features that reduced manual overhead by ~40% for enterprise clients, significantly increasing product ROI. - Cross-Functional Strategy: Acted as a key strategic partner to Product, Design, and Business units, translating high-level market requirements into executable technical roadmaps and product visions.
Engineering manager in charge of leading one of the company tech teams focussed on conversational AI and supervising a second one by directly managing all engineers and team lead. Handling the team in delivering on time and with quality code, helping them succeed and grow in their ladder. Furthermore, in charge of building and expanding the team through the hiring process. - Managing two multi-disciplinary distributed teams composed of 15 people combined - Conducting weekly 1-1s and providing feedback to the team - Shaping the feature from the start alongside the product manager and designer - Creation of technical specifications, epics and tickets - Measuring the feature’s success with client interviews and feedback
Scrum Master and Senior front-end engineer in charge of improving the company workflow introducing the Scrum framework starting from a waterfall methodology. Also, helping the team in shaping the new version of the main products with new architectures, heavy refactoring and new functionalities - Delivered a refactored version of their product - Implemented scrum and led ceremonies for the team
Front-end developer in charge of implementing and coding UX/UI based on the team's ideas for releasing new all-in-one software for managing events. Furthermore, in charge of mentoring a more junior full-stack developer in JavaScript - Devise and code a new all-in-one software built on web technologies (VueJS, ReactJs, NuxtJS GraphQL, NodeJs and microservices) - Working cooperatively with the design team and backend developers to achieve the best possible integration - Single-handedly took responsibility for coding UX/UI based on brainstormed ideas from the team - Mentoring, coaching and empowering Junior developers