Work

I’m an engineering leader with a strong technical background, who values team collaboration and supporting individual growth. I excel at navigating difficult technological and business trade-offs in medium-sized teams.

Presently I’m looking to build products that address security, identity or collaboration challenges for SMEs. I can provide most value to a small team that’s looking to grow, or a medium-sized team that’s looking to improve.

Technologies I’ve worked with most recently, either directly or via my teams, are:

Node.js & TypeScript
Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Firestore, IAM, Kubernetes, Pub/Sub)
Golang
Mobile app development (predominantly React Native, with some Swift & Kotlin)
GitOps with ArgoCD & Config Connector to manage deployments and environments

Involvements

An overview of the major products I’ve worked on in the past fifteen-odd years. In between I’ve done some consulting and open source work.

token.com

Monolith

State

State was an attempt to build a social network that connected people through their opinions. Founded by Alex & Mark Asseily, it lost out against products like Twitter and arguably missed the rise of the iPhone and subsequent industry shifts.

I joined the initial small team in late 2008 and stayed on through 2015, growing to be one of the lead engineers and taking charge of the frontend architecture as well as making significant backend contributions.

Proud achievements (given the technology available at the time) include:

Early adoption of Node.js
Development of an internal framework to (server-side) render reactive pages (in 2011!)
An API gateway powering the website & mobile apps
An OAuth implementation including social sign-on, across web and mobile
Push notification delivery

Consulting

I’ve done consulting work for SitePen on Dojo 2 and Digital Catapult on blockchain projects.

Minutiæ

I’m a dual Dutch and British citizen. I hold a Bachelor’s degree from University of Twente. I’m fluent in Dutch and English and fairly decent at comprehending German. I’m resident in the Netherlands.