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Utrecht, Netherlands

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

In my current role as Technical Director at Backbase, I focus on solving complex technical challenges, ensuring the scalability and robustness of our enterprise banking platform. My primary responsibilities include hands-on technical problem-solving, backend system architecture, and optimizing the platform for performance and security. I actively.

Amsterdam Area

Lead Principal Software Engineer at Backbase, is a hands-on engineering role, consistently delivering production-ready code while tackling the most complex technical challenges within my value stream. I played a critical role in defining and executing our technical vision, ensuring that the product continually evolved to meet both business objectives and.

Amsterdam Area

As part of a major modernization initiative at Bank Mendes Gans, a subsidiary of ING Group founded in 1883, I played a key role in overhauling their legacy Netting product. This critical project involved a complete rebuild of the application, leveraging modern technologies such as Lit for frontend development and Spring Boot for backend services.In.

Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands

At Deloitte, I led the development of a highly complex, cloud-native digital lending platform for one of the Netherlands' leading banks. This was by far one of the most challenging but also the most rewarding projects of my career. With full autonomy over the technical approach, I designed and implemented a scalable event-driven architecture consisting of.

Utrecht, Netherlands

As an international software powerhouse with 37+ years of deep industry experience spanning the banking, education, finance, insurance, telecoms and public sectors we stand out from the crowd.As Co-Founder / Executive of the Netherlands hub BBD Software B.V., my fellow Co-Founders and I contribute to the leadership, strategy and decision making within the.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Backbase provides a modern software solution developed in a microservices architecture, ensuring financial institutions can build on top of cutting-edge technology. Our technology drives solutions in a variety of ways for customers, from cloud-native, globally scaled deployments to on-premise managed application servers, demanding smart thinking and.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

As Technical Architect, it’s my job to ascertain that envisaged solutions become reality. Taking this client-facing role, I am equally comfortable in deep-dive technical workshops and in board-level presentations. Having earned my stripes in designing web-based architectures, I have no problem finding the scope in large-scale, complex projects.I know our.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

As a Senior Java Consultant, I am part of the Professional Services (PS) team. PS is a team of highly motivated specialists with specific skills and experience required to make sure that the implementation of our product at our customer’s location goes ahead as smoothly as possible. Every project has its own set of unique challenges that must be overcome.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

As technical lead of Vodacom International which includes the online portals and mobile apps for DRC, Mozambique and Tanzania, I manage a team of eight developers and the delivery of our systems to the client. I assess the impact of proposed changes, do code reviews of peers and design and develop back end and front end solutions. As part of the team that.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Vodacom is a fast-paced environment, unpredictable and deadline-driven. I was part of a 6 person team doing a complete rewrite of Vodacom Account Summary journey. My main responsibilities during the rewrite as Senior Java Developer was, to develop back end systems, manage requirements, track team progress and report to project manager. During the.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

The Vodacom Online Solution is developed in a Java/JEE environment with the back ends running on WebLogic application server and an IBM portal frontend (Portlets JSR 168). As a developer, I focused on “business as usual” work items such as change requests and bug fixes. During this time the main technologies I used were: Java/JEE, Weblogic Portal.

Gauteng, South Africa

Hired as a Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead. During my time at BBD I was contracted out to Vodacom, working on various parts of their online customer portal.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

As System Specialist, I was responsible for a complete rewrite of their internal software called Business Link. During this time I worked under extremely tight deadlines, as this software was crucial to the business as usual processes. The system was developed using the following technologies: Java/JEE, PrototypeJS, SVN, Ant, Apache Tomcat, MySQL, MSSQL.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

I was responsible for the creation and maintenance of their website. The website featured an online catalogue of all their products and services, manageable by the marketing team. Secondly, I created a document template engine, to automate the process of completing various legal documents. The system aggregated all the unique user inputs into one easy to.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Systems

Higher National Diploma, Information Technology

Diploma, Information Technology