Netherlands
Data/Software Engineer with 3+ years in scalable, data-driven systems. Strong in Java, Python, TypeScript, Kafka, AWS, containers, and Terraform. Fast, adaptive, and impact-focused.
Architected and owned the company-wide ETL infrastructure — ingesting 200+ data sources to power real-time trading signals across market, weather, and meteorological data. Built on Kafka, Python, AWS Lambda, and Docker. Cut legacy Java pipeline runtimes by up to 80%.
Built and owned the Metadata Services platform - NPO’s central hub for distributing broadcast metadata to 150+ B2B partners using event-driven pipelines (Kafka, AWS Lambda/S3/DynamoDB) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform). Also stepped in as interim Product Owner to lead a full radio metadata migration. Cut AWS costs by 7% while improving performance.
Completed my thesis internship at CWI within the Human-Centred Data Analytics research line, focusing on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for fake news and misinformation detection. The work was supervised by senior researcher Davide Ceolin, published by Springer, and presented at the MSIDOOM conference at CWI. Contributed to model development, evaluation, and analysis in the context of trustworthy AI and information integrity.
During my tenure from 2022 to 2023, I served as a key knowledge source for the Adyen platform and APIs, web-stack technologies, and industry-standard integration methods, with a primary focus on Adyen plugins, in-person payments, issuing/acquiring, and webhooks. Specialising in: - E-comm integrations - Magento 2 / Salesforce / Shopware / NetSuite plugins support - Payment analysis - Support for high-level merchants with e-commerce solutions