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What I've built, learned and worked on along the way.

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2026

  1. Training Upcoming
    World Summit AI Amsterdam · conference Event
  2. Speaking Upcoming
    Mentat — Hybrid Cloud Governance ING · TechFest

    Speaking at ING's internal TechFest conference about Mentat, ING's hybrid cloud governance platform.

  3. 3 mos
    Project
    signal-kit

    A focused Rust library for bootstrapping OpenTelemetry observability in async services.

  4. 2 mos
    Project
    De Bondscoaches

    A loud, orange, football-and-music landing page for a Dutch fan project.

  5. 3 mos
    Project
    Summon

    A tiny macOS CLI that makes application switching instant, deterministic, and keyboard-native.

  6. 7 mos
    Project
    tokenlane Archived

    An OpenAI-compatible gateway for vLLM with traffic isolation, batch processing, and observability.

  7. 8 mos
    Project
    Velor Archived

    A Rust agent supervisor and orchestration layer for Codex, Claude Code and Oh My Pi — template-driven loops, crash recovery, a streaming TUI, and a Telegram control plane.

Continuing from earlier years

  1. Since Jul 2023
    Lead Engineer — Private Cloud Policy-as-Code & Policy Governance Platform ING
  2. Since Jun 2025
    RAFF
  3. Since Apr 2024
    Tree Sitter WIT
  4. Since Jul 2023
    Veloxide.dev

2025

2024

  1. Training
    LLMOps on GCP Xebia Academy · course Course
  2. Training
    Building LLM Applications Xebia Academy · course Course
  3. 3 mos
    Project
    InvoiceMe

    An AI-powered invoice automation tool that turns received invoices into correct outbound ones.

  4. 3 mos
    Project
    HyprFocus

    A Hyprland utility that opens or focuses an application with a single bindable command.

  5. 2 yrs 5 mos
    Project
    Tree Sitter WIT

    A tree-sitter grammar for WebAssembly Interface Types (WIT), bringing syntax-aware tooling to the Component Model.

  6. 1 mo
    Project
    Banking App

    A research application assembling my ideal stack: Rust, SvelteKit, gRPC, OpenTelemetry, and SurrealDB.

  7. Training
    Domain-Driven Design — Tactical Patterns DDD Academy · workshop Workshop

Continuing from earlier years

  1. Since Jul 2023
    Lead Engineer — Private Cloud Policy-as-Code & Policy Governance Platform ING
  2. Since Jul 2023
    Veloxide.dev

2023

  1. 1 yr 1 mo
    Project
    Surreal ID

    A Rust crate for typesafe SurrealDB record IDs in domain-driven models.

  2. 3 yrs 2 mos
    Work Leadership · Mentoring
    Lead Engineer — Private Cloud Policy-as-Code & Policy Governance Platform ING

    Leading the design and build of ING’s internal policy-as-code and policy-governance platform for its private cloud estate.

    7 highlights
    • Started the engineering team from an ambiguous brief and took the platform from architecture into ING production; own the architecture documentation and releases.
    • Own the platform architecture and event-driven control plane across policy ingestion, governance workflows, audit history, and release integration.
    • Co-designed and built an event-sourcing framework providing replayable policy and exemption history and point-in-time governance views across the cloud estate.
    • Built idempotent reconciliation from Azure and GCP policy-as-code repositories into the control plane, retaining immutable versions, Git provenance, and complete audit history.
    • Delivered durable asynchronous policy-exemption workflows whose API feeds Azure and GCP release pipelines, connecting approvals directly to enforcement.
    • Designed the CI/CD pipeline for the platform’s Go and Rust services in Azure DevOps, including caching and quality checks.
    • Trained and mentored three engineers in Go, Rust, CI/CD, and distributed systems.
    • Go
    • Rust
    • Kafka
    • gRPC
    • Event sourcing
    • Kubernetes
    • Terraform
    • Postgres
    • Azure DevOps
  3. 3 yrs 2 mos
    Project
    Veloxide.dev

    My personal corner of the internet — a portfolio, technical notebook, and digital bookshelf, with an on-site assistant.

  4. Training Leadership
    Positive Power and Influence Programme (Inzicht en Invloed) Bureau Zuidema · course

    A leadership programme on influencing without authority — invested in heavily at ING.

2022

  1. Speaking
    The Event Driven Future of IPC Billing ING · Cloud Conference

    Spoke at ING's internal Cloud Conference on the event-driven architecture powering the upcoming version of ING Private Cloud's billing.

  2. 1 yr 5 mos
    Work Leadership · Mentoring
    Lead Engineer — Private Cloud FinOps Platform ING

    Designed and led the Go-based FinOps platform for ING Private Cloud, replacing a legacy vendor system with an in-house production solution.

    4 highlights
    • Built a Kafka ingestion pipeline for resource consumption metrics, with canonical data models, stable identifiers, and idempotency keys to prevent duplicate charging.
    • Implemented a Go API — deployed to Kubernetes with Helm and CockroachDB — through which internal service providers define services, pricing, and cost models; consumed by ING’s Cloud Atlas portal.
    • Trained four engineers in Go, CI/CD, and ELT-style data ingestion pipelines.
    • Collaborated with finance, platform, and engineering stakeholders to meet reporting and governance requirements.
    • Go
    • Kafka
    • Kubernetes
    • Terraform
    • Postgres
    • CockroachDB
    • ELT
  3. Work Leadership
    RING Study Trip Committee Member — Manila 2023 ING

    Co-organised a week-long study trip to ING Hubs Philippines for 40 high-potential employees, built around ING's Big 6 Capabilities — owning the Cybersecurity capability segment of the agenda.

    4 highlights
    • Owned the Cybersecurity capability segment of the Big 6 Capabilities agenda: hosted a fireside chat with ING's then Global Chief Architect of Infrastructure and Engineering covering ransomware, generative AI and bank security, and organised live hacking demonstrations of social engineering, USB Rubber Ducky devices and radio-frequency scanners.
    • Organised the bike tour and handled on-the-ground communication and coordination for two days of the trip.
    • Co-managed the trip budget (travel, accommodation, events), balancing cost constraints with programme quality.
    • Strengthened cross-border networks and collaboration between Dutch and Philippine teams as part of the ING Hubs rebranding.
  4. Training
    Professional Scrum Product Owner Scrum.org · certification

2021

  1. Training
    Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure Microsoft · certification

Continuing from earlier years

  1. Until May 2022
    Cloud DevOps Engineer — CloudInfra Team ING

2020

  1. Training
    Microsoft Azure Administrator Microsoft · certification
  2. Training
    Professional Scrum Master I Scrum.org · certification

Continuing from earlier years

  1. Until May 2022
    Cloud DevOps Engineer — CloudInfra Team ING

2019

  1. 2 yrs 9 mos
    Work
    Cloud DevOps Engineer — CloudInfra Team ING

    Automated end-to-end provisioning of private cloud datacenter workload domains — from bare metal up — bringing new domains online from a single pipeline push.

    4 highlights
    • Automated workload-domain provisioning with Ansible and supporting Go utilities, configuring infrastructure from bare metal to hypervisors, networking, storage, and Kubernetes.
    • Evaluated Terraform and Ansible, then designed an idempotent desired-state system for ordered bare-metal, hypervisor, networking, storage, and Kubernetes infrastructure.
    • Established documentation, linting, pre-commit checks, and pull-request validation across CloudInfra.
    • Applied an everything-as-code mindset — CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and deployment best practices — to improve reliability and reduce manual work.
    • Ansible
    • Go
    • Terraform
    • Kubernetes
    • CI/CD
  2. Training
    AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate AWS · certification

    Earned in the run-up to the move from Tasmania to the Netherlands.

2018

  1. Education
    Diploma of Information Technology Networking TasTAFE

    Completed while working full-time and running a business — recognised with a TasTAFE Special Achievement Award.

  2. Award
    Special Achievement Award TasTAFE

    For completing four years of study in two years while working full-time and running a business.

  3. Award
    Bronze Medal — IT Network Systems Administration WorldSkills Australia National, Australia

    Third in Australia after winning the Tasmanian regional round.

Continuing from earlier years

  1. Until Feb 2019
    IT Technician (formerly IT Trainee) Sacred Heart College
  2. Until Jan 2019
    IT Consultant & Technician Unitech IT (self-employed)

2017

  1. Award
    Gold Medal — IT Network Systems Administration WorldSkills Australia Regional, Tasmania

    State champion — the win that led to the national competition.

  2. Education
    Certified Network Associate Technology Specialist Skill Set TasTAFE

Continuing from earlier years

  1. Until Feb 2019
    IT Technician (formerly IT Trainee) Sacred Heart College
  2. Until Jan 2019
    IT Consultant & Technician Unitech IT (self-employed)

2016

  1. 3 yrs 1 mo
    Work
    IT Consultant & Technician Unitech IT (self-employed)

    Ran my own IT consultancy while studying — advising business directors on IT strategy and delivering automated solutions that reduced operational overhead.

    2 highlights
    • Advised business directors on IT strategy, aligning technical solutions with business goals from requirements through implementation and support.
    • Designed and delivered automated solutions and procedures using scripting and infrastructure tooling.
    • IT strategy
    • Automation
    • Infrastructure
  2. Education
    Certificate II, III & IV in Information Technology Support TasTAFE

    The formal foundation — started straight out of secondary school, alongside full-time work.

Continuing from earlier years

  1. Until Feb 2019
    IT Technician (formerly IT Trainee) Sacred Heart College

2015

  1. Work Mentoring
    IT Technician (formerly IT Trainee) Sacred Heart College

    Where it started: co-designed and ran infrastructure projects — server and network upgrades — and automated key workflows; later trained two IT trainees.

    3 highlights
    • Co-designed and executed infrastructure projects and operations, including server and network upgrades.
    • Automated key workflows with Python, PowerShell, and SQL — BYOD setup, scripted backups, and operational alerting.
    • Trained two IT trainees, emphasising both personal and technical development in their roles.
    • Python
    • PowerShell
    • SQL
    • ESX
    • Linux
    • Windows
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