Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Staff-level engineer with 15+ years building and scaling high performance distributed systems in fintech and trading. Operating at the intersection of architecture, execution and organizational leadership, driving large initiatives from design to production while keeping engineering tightly aligned with business goals. Focused on deterministic, auditable systems and SLO driven operations across teams.
- Own architecture and delivery for regulated product expansion, partnering with Product, Legal, Compliance, and executive leadership. - Designed Spot Margin core architecture and led delivery of the Risk Engine; beta contributes 25%+ of retail volume, targeting 5× volume growth. - Drive multi-asset platform design across Retail, Exchange, and Treasury; establish ADRs, performance, and reliability standards across teams. - Mentor mid/senior engineers and guide design reviews, incident retros, and execution planning.
- Co-designed the end-to-end exchange (OMS + Matching Engine), led implementation, ADRs, releases and production cutover (influenced 6+ engineers, delivered key core services). - Architected a deterministic Aeron Cluster based exchange with replayable audit trails, supporting post-incident investigation and compliance reporting. - Scaled performance to 80K orders/sec (~7x) capacity with <5ms p99 latency and ~5µs avg processing.
- Designed and built an Order Management System (OMS), trade execution engine, and smart order routing across multiple venues using FIX. - Developed distributed execution workflows prioritizing correctness, reliability, and real-market operational constraints. - Led and mentored 3 engineers, coordinating delivery, design reviews, and implementation decisions.
- Built and led a 25-person engineering organization from the ground up (hiring, org design, delivery processes, standards, and operational ownership). - Owned technical strategy and execution for a multi-domain e-commerce marketplace, balancing roadmap delivery with scalability and reliability. - Designed core platform architecture (service boundaries, data models, deployment / on-call), improving reliability and delivery cadence across teams. - Partnered with stakeholders to translate business goals into architecture and execution plans.
- Founded and built a 35-person engineering organization (hiring, org structure, engineering standards, delivery cadence, operational practices). - Built an ultra-low-latency exchange engine (Java + LMAX Disruptor): sub-ms latency, 1M+ ops/sec, ~150ns per match.
E-Commerce, Social Network, No-Code App Builder