experience

Xebia Data · Amsterdam, NL

• · 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 communication via Kafka and AWS Lambda.
• · Built 'Lakewatch', a full-stack Databricks observability app with a K8s-based connector to the Cortex IDP. Deployed at 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 to save +$1M/yr, driving Databricks best practice adoption at scale.
• · Developed 'Ducklake', a proof-of-concept portable lakehouse solution using DuckDB, integrated with Unity Catalog for governed, high-performance analytics.
• · Delivered Apache Spark internals training to engineering teams at INGDutch multinational banking and financial services corporation.↗ Visit website, ABN AMROThird-largest bank in the Netherlands by total assets.↗ Visit website, and RabobankDutch cooperative bank and global leader in food and agriculture financing.↗ Visit website.

Future Facts · Amsterdam, NL

• · Led industrialization of an NLP model for HS code package classification at PostNLThe national postal service of the Netherlands, delivering 1M+ parcels daily.↗ Visit website, building backend ML and data infrastructure from scratch — €1M+ savings, Innovation of the Year award.
• · Designed automated data pipelines using AWS Glue to stream, preprocess and format text data for training and inference.
• · Built a high-performance REST API using FastAPI and AsyncIO, serving 20,000+ daily requests with sub-second latency.
• · Established production-grade CI/CD pipelines via GitLab enforcing testing standards and automated deployments.

Dequeue Ltd · Amsterdam, NL

• · Engineered and sold automation scripts in Java, handling over 50,000 unique process runs with a focus on reliability and maintainability.
• · Developed a customer-facing full-stack application using ReactJS, PHP and PostgreSQL for real-time data insights.
• · Automated user support by creating a chatbot service to streamline onboarding and reduce manual load.