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