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The work archive.

Every engagement teaches you something. Here’s twenty-five years of them: enterprise obstacle courses and startup sprints alike. Filter by vibe:

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Enterprise

where a legion of stakeholders must be satisfied (and was)

Lithos · 2026

Simplifying the tender process at Lithos

Simplified the tender process at construction firm Lithos: fewer hours per bid, same win rate.

Aan de Stegge (ASVB) · 2026

Rolling out tender processes group-wide at Aan de Stegge (ASVB)

Took the tender-process fix from one company to a group-wide rollout at Aan de Stegge (ASVB).

Aan de Stegge (ASVB) · 2026

Evaluating Copilot, Claude and ChatGPT for Aan de Stegge

Copilot vs. Claude vs. ChatGPT, scored on quality, security, privacy and cost. A vendor-neutral report a board can decide on.

Suitsupply · 2018

Building employee performance apps for Suitsupply

Employee performance apps for a global menswear brand.

54hrs · 2018

Building an field service portal for home owners

A maintenance portal (onderhoudsportaal) for construction: tickets, planning and paperwork in one place.

HEMA · 2016

Building Photo-on-cake for HEMA

Yes, it printed your face on a cake. Yes, it was harder than it sounds.

Funda · 2016

Building Kadaster for Funda

Land-registry (Kadaster) data plumbed into the Netherlands' biggest housing portal.

HEMA · 2016

Building 1-Hour Photoservice for HEMA

Consumer services shipped end-to-end for a national icon. Yes, the cake thing was real, and yes, it shipped on time.

Sony Ericsson · 2015

Building an intranet for Sony-Ericsson

Corporate intranet for a global handset maker: enterprise collaboration at multinational scale.

Jumbo · 2015

Building an intranet for Jumbo Supermarket

Internal communications platform for one of the Netherlands' largest grocery chains.

Europol · 2015

Building an intranet for Europol

Secure software inside one of Europe's most demanding compliance environments. Stakeholders, clearances, audits: the full corporate obstacle course, cleared.

Startup & scale-up

deadline, napkin, go

Digitaalgoed.nl · 2026

Setting up IT advice for charities via Digitaalgoed.nl

Independent IT advice for charities and non-profits, funded without reseller margins.

TommyTomato · 2025

Rescuing TommyTomato's microservices stack

An emergency cleanup job. The multi-repo microservices setup a bankrupt agency left behind, folded back into one deployable monolith without dropping a single school lunch.

Edge Impulse · 2024

Identifying rhinos by their eye wrinkles in Kenya

A tech-for-good expedition to Solio Game Reserve. Teaching a model to recognize individual rhinos by their eye wrinkles, so rangers stop comparing photos by hand.

Edge Impulse · 2023

Working on the Edge Impulse SDK team

Python SDK for edge ML: pandas and NumPy in, deployed models out.

Edge Impulse · 2022

Running Edge Impulse K8s team

Led the Kubernetes migration and infra team for a fast-scaling ML platform, then built the Python SDK developers actually use.

Cohub · 2020

Towards an administration-less construction company with Cohub

A platform that quietly deletes construction paperwork.

Makeschool · 2019

Refactoring Make school's GraphQL API

Refactored the GraphQL API of a coding-education platform (Rails/JS).

Moovs · 2018

Building education software company for Leaplines

Co-founded an education software company and ran product and engineering as CTO.

HalloRoos · 2018

Building an MVP for HalloRoos

MVP from concept to first customers, in weeks.

54hrs · 2018

Building a site agency for Supercraft

Site-building setup for Supercraft's custom shops.

FJ · 2018

Building a reporting prototype for FJ

A reporting prototype for FJ Amsterdam: idea to clickable in weeks.

Menswear · 2016

Building an online fashion store in the early days of the internet with Menswear

An online fashion store built in the early days of e-commerce, with lessons that still apply.

Talks, training & hackathons

knowledge transfer, occasionally with pizza

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