Curriculum Vitae

Jul 2022 — Present · Software Engineer II

• Build Java and TypeScript backend services exposing REST and GraphQL APIs that serve millions of users daily.
• Design scalable, high-traffic services backed by Redis caching and Kafka event pipelines.
• Implement offline data-generation pipelines on Hadoop and PySpark feeding production lookup stores.
• Improve observability with Grafana dashboards, SLO tracking, and structured logging.
• Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, TypeScript, Redis, Kafka, Hadoop, PySpark, Kubernetes, Docker, Protocol Buffers.

Sep 2025 — Present · Founder · Product & Engineering

Independent one-person company (KVK 98455303), shipping products end-to-end:

• Caleido — Social discovery platform for art, cinema, books, and music. iOS, Android, and Web.
• AddrPass — Open-source address-privacy infrastructure: tokenized, revocable, self-hostable.
• Brain Memory — Memory system for AI coding agents, distributed via npm.
• AppScreen — App Store and Play Store screenshot generator with a public API and MCP integration.
• RemoteConsoleSSH — Secure mobile SSH client with biometric authentication.
• Stack: TypeScript, Next.js, Flutter, Node.js, PostgreSQL, GCP, Cloudflare Workers.

Nov 2018 — Jul 2022 · Senior Software Engineer

• Designed and shipped software components integrating the TomTom navigation SDK into automotive platforms (CommonAPI, AIDL).
• Tech lead for a six-engineer team: roadmap, architecture reviews, mentoring, and customer-facing technical communication.
• Stack: C++ (11/14/17), Java, Android, CMake, Gradle, Docker.

Aug 2017 — Aug 2018 · SDE II

• Full-stack development of product-curation tools for Amazon Business administrators.
• Planned and optimized project hardware infrastructure and CI capacity.
• Stack: React, Java, Spring Boot, AWS (DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS, Lambda).

Apr 2016 — Jun 2017 · Senior R&D Engineer

• Developed infrared target-detection and tracking algorithms; built test and simulation tooling.
• Stack: C, C++.

Jun 2015 — Feb 2016 · Senior Software Developer

• Designed and implemented search and recommendation algorithms for a large video platform; integrated Apache Solr.
• Stack: PHP, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Solr.

Aug 2008 — Jun 2015 · Senior Researcher / Researcher

• Designed image-processing algorithms for target detection and tracking, image enhancement, feature extraction, and multispectral image fusion.
• Authored algorithm and system requirements; led a research team of four; took algorithms from prototype to delivered system.
• Stack: C, C++, C#, OpenCV, MATLAB.

Sep 2014 — Sep 2017 · PhD, Informatics (left before dissertation)

• Three years of doctoral study; coursework in software architecture, object-oriented design, databases, networks, and data mining.

2008 — 2011 · MSc, Electrical & Electronics Engineering

• Focus: signal processing, image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition.
• Thesis: An algorithm for multiscale license plate detection and rule-based character segmentation.

2003 — 2008 · BSc, Electrical & Electronics Engineering

• Senior project: A device that creates 3D objects using 2D data sources.