Agentic software delivery
Cloud-based agent workflows that turn scoped tickets into reviewable, tested branches, without lowering the bar on code quality.
Available 1–2 days a week
I build SaaS platforms from scratch, and the agents that help teams ship them.
Hands-on fullstack engineer and Head of Engineering in Amsterdam. Seventeen years of turning ambitious ideas into production software, with a strong preference for simple systems and fewer moving parts.
- Years shipping software
- 17+
- Years leading the Salesbuildr platform
- 7
- Engineers, QA & DevOps on the team
- 8
- Continents running the product
- 4
01 — What I do
Pragmatic engineering, end to end.
Production SaaS architecture
Multi-region, multi-tenant platforms with authentication and observability built in. Built to stay cheap to run and boring to operate.
Integrations & data
Complex synchronisation across distributors, PSAs and CRMs, data-heavy applications, and migrations that leave the system simpler than before.
DevOps, reliability & security
I own what happens after the merge: CI/CD, infrastructure, monitoring and incident response, plus the ongoing work on performance, cloud cost and security reviews.
02 — How my teams ship
From a Jira comment to a live preview.
I designed and built a cloud-based agent harness at Salesbuildr. Engineers hand a scoped ticket to an agent, and every safeguard the team relies on stays in the loop. Smaller tickets now go from specification to reviewable implementation with very little manual coding.
Ask
An engineer comments on a Jira ticket; a bot launches a cloud agent.
Understand
The agent applies repository rules and skills to learn the codebase.
Build & verify
It implements the change, then runs linting, unit and E2E tests.
Integrate
Branch pushed to GitHub; CircleCI runs with Nx Cloud caching.
Review
An isolated Azure Container Apps preview, ready for peers and stakeholders.
Documentation, internal and public, stays current along the way, right down to the answers our Slack bot gives.
03 — Core stack
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Angular
- NestJS
- TypeORM
- Azure
- PostgreSQL
- Firebase
- Elasticsearch
- Redis
- BullMQ
- Cloudflare
- CircleCI
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- Nx
- Datadog
- Sentry
- Application Insights
- Cursor
04 — Experience
Seventeen years, one thread: shipping.
2019 — now Lead Developer → Head of Engineering Salesbuildr
Lead Developer 2019 — 2024 · Head of Engineering since October 2024
- Built the SaaS platform from scratch in Angular and NestJS on Azure, first alone and later as tech lead of 5 developers, 1 QA and 2 DevOps engineers.
- Used by hundreds of MSPs and IT service providers across Europe, North America, Africa and APAC.
- Designed complex data synchronisation with distributor, PSA and CRM integrations.
- Leading a migration from Firestore + Elasticsearch to PostgreSQL to cut cost and complexity and improve reliability.
- Owns production troubleshooting, performance, observability, security and cloud cost.
2020 — 2021 Senior Development Consultant SnappCar · freelance
Trained and supported the internal frontend team in building a NativeScript app to replace the existing native mobile apps.
2020 Mobile Developer Quadrant 2 · freelance
NativeScript application development for a New York–based client.
2014 — 2020 Lead UI → Team Lead → Senior Consultant Neocles
Grew from Lead UI to Development Team Lead on a fast, cloud-based platform for the fashion industry, then stayed on as a senior consultant. Front-end work in AngularJS, Angular and NativeScript, and also involved in the .NET backend, Elasticsearch and the DevOps side of the platform.
2010 — 2014 PHP / Symfony Developer Samson IT
My first full-time developer job. PHP backends in CodeCharge and Symfony (both the legacy and the modern generation), informational sites in TYPO3, and front-ends in Knockout, Backbone and early AngularJS.
2009 Programmer Van Eldijk Studios · side job
A side job during my studies, and where coding first became work.
05 — A different route in
I studied Slavic languages, not computer science.
A non-traditional path, but not a late start: I was hooked on computers at eight and writing code not long after. I kept coding all through my degree, and made it my job once I’d graduated. The languages still shape how I work: precise with words, curious about systems, and comfortable translating between people who think very differently.
- QBasic at 10
- HTML & JavaScript at 12
- Perl at 15
- PHP at 18
- Slavic languages + coding on the side
- Graduated in 2009 → PHP full-time
- …and everything since
- HalloDutch · native
- HelloEnglish · professional
- ПриветRussian · conversational
06 — Off the clock
Happiest at 2,021 metres.
Winter sports are how I switch off. Cold air, fresh snow, a sky like this one, and absolutely nothing to deploy.
Open to new work
Let’s build something worth shipping.
I’m available 1–2 days a week for temporary or part-time assignments: web applications, AI-assisted development workflows, architecture and hands-on technical delivery.