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Résumé

Experienced software and data engineer, qualified in analytics and AI.

01 — Experience

Now

Senior Data Engineer, AI & data analytics — OpenTrace Africa

  • ✦Designing the data architecture for an African agricultural data platform
  • ✦Robust pipelines with Airbyte, dbt and Airflow into BigQuery on Google Cloud

DataTwinLabs

Data, AI and software engineering for clients

  • ✦Digital twin of 's-Hertogenbosch: live building, traffic, weather and air data in a 3D browser view
  • ✦Traffic and energy forecasting models, checked against what actually happened
  • ✦TwinQuery: answers from policy documents with the source page shown

10 years

Software engineer and team lead

  • ✦Payment APIs and secure alert notifications for banking customers
  • ✦Enterprise Java applications with Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Struts, Hibernate, Groovy and Grails
  • ✦E-commerce sites, PHP/JavaScript web apps, Android apps and WordPress/Joomla sites
  • ✦A community tracking system in ASP.NET MVC with Telerik and DevExpress
  • ✦Led a team of 5 developers; section lead for my unit in larger corporate teams

02 — Education

Engineering Doctorate (EngD), Data Science

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) with JADS — specialised in urban digital twins and real-time analytics

KIVI EngD Award finalist

For the urban digital twin of 's-Hertogenbosch

CENTERIS 2025 publication

Paper on an open digital twin architecture

03 — Skills

Data engineering
Data architecture, data modelling, ETL/ELT, streaming, data quality, governance, lakehouse, Kafka, Spark, Delta Lake, dbt, Airflow, Airbyte
Cloud
Google Cloud, BigQuery, Azure, AWS, Databricks
AI & ML
Forecasting, RAG, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, HuggingFace, MLflow
Software
Java, Spring, Python, TypeScript, PHP, JavaScript, C# / ASP.NET MVC, Android, REST, microservices
Databases
SQL, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL
Practice
OOP, design patterns, dependency injection, SOA, code review, team leadership

04 — Certificates

Machine Learning Data Lifecycle in Production ↗

DeepLearning.AI · 2025

Databricks Fundamentals ↗

Databricks · 2025

Machine Learning in Production (MLOps) ↗

DeepLearning.AI · 2024

Machine Learning Specialization ↗

DeepLearning.AI · 2024

Energy Forecast: Time-series Modelling with Deep Learning

Analytics Vidhya · 2026

Python Project for Data Engineering

IBM · 2024

Advanced SQL for Data Scientists

LinkedIn · 2024

Cloud Computing

DataCamp · 2024

Prompt Engineering for Generative AI

LinkedIn · 2023

Complete Data Science Bootcamp

Udemy · 2023

Audience-Focused Presentations

Eindhoven University of Technology · 2023

Foundations of Project Management

Coursera · 2023