I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Applied Computer Science, with a focus on Application Development.

After a successful internship at Roots Software, I was offered a position as a Java consultant. I worked on various projects for clients in different industries, gaining experience in Java development and enterprise software.

My first big project. Worked five years on the contract application used by legal departments globally. I learned a lot about large-scale Java applications and enterprise software development in general.

After spending five years at Roots, I moved on to Ordina. I took on various projects as a senior consultant. I also led the Cloud & Automation competence center, organizing training sessions and mentoring junior developers.

Here I found myself in the banking world for the first time, among the Dutch! I got to tackle core features for 7 million users, including the critical services that handle transactions (e.g. that thing that makes money go out of your account). Standards were extremely high and I learned a lot about security, reliability, and performance.

At TVH / mateco I was part of a digital transformation journey that spanned multiple years, which got me into EDA and Kafka early on. I was fortunate to lead a team of talented developers. We built an event-driven platform on top of Kafka that supported various digital initiatives, including e-commerce platforms and rental management systems. I am proud of the work we did there.

After 13 years of consultancy, I made the jump to a social media startup. I learned a lot about developer experience and how standardization can help teams move faster and deploy to production multiple times a day.

At the moment, I am the technical lead and product owner for Kannika, a Kubernetes-native platform for backing up and restoring Kafka clusters. Being part of a small team means I get to wear many hats, from coding to customer support and everything in between.

Cruxy is my part-time remote freelance business.