As an engineering manager of the WeTransfer frontend team I've helped the team deliver a redesign of the wetransfer.com upload experience, making it more discoverable and extensible with new product features. This resulted in higher quality UX, more subscription conversions and better user retention. I've also helped the team deliver a new approach to our subscription pricing and packaging, improving our user entitlements implementation and improved the core upload and download flows for our… Show more As an engineering manager of the WeTransfer frontend team I've helped the team deliver a redesign of the wetransfer.com upload experience, making it more discoverable and extensible with new product features. This resulted in higher quality UX, more subscription conversions and better user retention. I've also helped the team deliver a new approach to our subscription pricing and packaging, improving our user entitlements implementation and improved the core upload and download flows for our users.I'm most proud of how I helped the team move to a confident, reliable, productive and proactive team that delivers quality work with joy. We improved the quality of our work, we increased cross-discipline collaboration across product, design and engineering, and we raised the bar for accessibility. Show less

As a backend engineer in Transfer I've introduced a GraphQL API for the wetransfer.com backend, enabling improved UX in our product and simpler frontend code. I've also extracted common business logic for the GraphQL and REST APIs. Later on I've led the team extending the graph and fostered close collaboration with the frontend product teams.As a backend engineer in Collect I've simplified, modernized and cleaned the Collect backend codebase. This resulted in a reduction of complexity… Show more As a backend engineer in Transfer I've introduced a GraphQL API for the wetransfer.com backend, enabling improved UX in our product and simpler frontend code. I've also extracted common business logic for the GraphQL and REST APIs. Later on I've led the team extending the graph and fostered close collaboration with the frontend product teams.As a backend engineer in Collect I've simplified, modernized and cleaned the Collect backend codebase. This resulted in a reduction of complexity and easier onboarding. I've made it more maintainable by containerizing the app (Docker), updating Ruby and library versions, reducing custom libraries, adding maintenance scripts, improving test coverage, enforcing stricter linting and more. I have also onboarded, coached and mentored other engineers in this role. Show less

As a full stack developer and project lead I've made numerous impactful contributions to a fast growing fintech backed by Machine Learning/AI. I've improved customer UX, financial risk insights and assessment for credit underwriters, streamlined business workflows (e.g. how companies were periodically reviewed), optimized internal ways of working, promoted knowledge sharing and grew talent in the organization.Among other things I've led a team with Kanban and Shape Up principles, pushed… Show more As a full stack developer and project lead I've made numerous impactful contributions to a fast growing fintech backed by Machine Learning/AI. I've improved customer UX, financial risk insights and assessment for credit underwriters, streamlined business workflows (e.g. how companies were periodically reviewed), optimized internal ways of working, promoted knowledge sharing and grew talent in the organization.Among other things I've led a team with Kanban and Shape Up principles, pushed for optimizing the engineering team resulting in more focus and depth, introduced a new financial product line in the product, integrated machine learning predictions on lenders' financial credibility into an initial and periodic workflow, built a periodic review and reporting workflow for credit underwriters, built dashboards for better financial insights based on parsed bank statements for companies and credit underwriters, added granular role based authorization, built and extended a partner portal and rebranded the web app.I have also successfully coached and mentored 4 interns, resulting in solid future-proof hires and a more diverse team overall. Show less

As a full stack developer and project lead I have built, maintained and led teams working on a newspaper advertisement sales tool for a national publisher, a public transportation booking app, a client portal for a healthcare organization and an HR onboarding tool for a major Dutch bank.

As a full stack developer I have built and maintained a client portal for a healthcare institution, an information platform around cancer, a scientific journal insights app for an international publisher, a survey and reporting tool, a golf score app, a travel startup and other web apps.