experience
Applied AI Engineer (full-stack)
Nov 2026 — presentMistral AIEuropean sovereign AI company: frontier open-weight models, its own GPU compute and inference cloud, and applied AI teams building with enterprises.↗ Visit website · Amsterdam, NL
Senior Software / Data Engineer
Jul 2022 — Oct 2026Xebia DataData and AI consultancy within Xebia, a global IT consultancy.↗ Visit website · Amsterdam, NL
- · Built and scaled a full-stack AI assistant for 15,000+ store staff across 30 markets (Expo/React Native, Express, PostgreSQL): multi-agent orchestration via Google ADK with Gemini on Vertex AI, RAG search over SharePoint and Yoobic content kept fresh by permission-aware sync pipelines, a production online eval loop scored by an LLM judge, and Datadog observability. Deployed on GCP Cloud Run. (RitualsDutch luxury home and body cosmetics brand with 1,000+ stores worldwide.↗ Visit website)
- · Built 'Lakewatch', a full-stack internal observability dashboard surfacing complex Databricks metadata to engineering teams, with a Kubernetes-based ingestion framework feeding the Cortex internal developer platform, cutting cloud spend by $1.5M+ annually for clients like ASMLGlobal leader in semiconductor lithography systems, enabling the production of advanced microchips.↗ Visit website and SephoraMultinational retailer of personal care and beauty products with 2,700+ stores worldwide.↗ Visit website.
- · Maintained and scaled a financial microservices architecture at Royal FloraHollandWorld's largest flower auction marketplace, handling +€5B in annual trade volume.↗ Visit website handling +€5B in annual transaction volume, orchestrating async service communication via Kafka and AWS Lambda for eventual consistency and high availability.
- · Engineered a high-throughput data ingestion system, handling terabyte-scale volumes with strict error handling patterns to ensure reliable operational data for internal product teams (INGDutch multinational banking and financial services corporation.↗ Visit website).
Software & ML Engineer
Nov 2020 — Jul 2022Future FactsAmsterdam-based data and AI consultancy, now part of Conclusion.↗ Visit website · Amsterdam, NL
- · Led the industrialization of a product NLP classification model at PostNLThe national postal service of the Netherlands, delivering 1M+ parcels daily.↗ Visit website, building the backend ML and data infrastructure from scratch — €1M+ savings (Innovation of the Year award).
- · Built a high-performance REST API using FastAPI and AsyncIO, serving 20,000+ daily requests with sub-second latency for logistical operations.
- · Established production-grade CI/CD pipelines via GitLab to enforce testing standards and automated deployments.
Software Engineer
Jan 2018 — Jan 2021Dequeue Ltd · Amsterdam, NL
- · Developed a customer-facing full-stack application, handling customer-facing traffic using ReactJS, PHP and PostgreSQL to provide users with real-time data insights.