Work Experience 🚀
Software Engineer @ Coolblue 📦
August 2022 - Present
- Part of the team handling all the shipments from/to Coolblue, shipping over 20, 000 shipments daily.
- Working on both legacy systems and creating new microservices in C#.
- Highlights:
- Dreamed up and built a microservice to find fraud and set the appropriate insurance on a shipment using Machine Learning.
- Set up an event store for all shipment related events with AWS (Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB) to keep our information in a central place to expose to other domains.
Software Consultant @ ICT Group 🧑💻
May 2021 - August 2022
Project 1 - PSA International 🌐
- Worked on beefing up developer tools (Java + Spring Boot + Angular) for checking systems after updates.
- Created a CI/CD pipeline in Azure using Packer, Terraform, and Python to make testing older system versions easy.
Project 2 - Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Railways) 🚂
- Led the charge in moving an Manufacturing Execution System (MES) system’s front-end from Internet Explorer to Chrome & ES6 Javascript.
- Built manageable workflow tools for factory employees using TypeScript and React, making their work simpler.
Graduate Intern @ ICT Group 🎓
August 2020 - February 2021
- Wrote a thesis on integrating CI/CD pipelines into embedded devices and create a functioning prototype.
- Explored scalable Over-the-Air updates for ESP8266 microcontrollers, using Azure CI/CD, with a mix of C++ and Python.
Research & Development Engineer @ Monta 🛠️
March 2020 - August 2020
- Researched using light (both lamps & led-strips) to speed up picking orders in the warehouse.
- Created C# software to control a DMX spotlight, highlighting products.
- Developed a C# UWP app for Raspberry Pi to talk to Teensy microcontrollers over RabbitMQ.
- Programmed Teensy microcontrollers in C++ to assign picking shelves using led-strips
Technical Product Owner & Analyst @ Billink 📊
February 2019 - February 2020
- Took charge of the credit check system and managed the work of 2 remote devs.
- Dug into data with Tableau and SQL to find bugs and boost both operational and technical performance.
- Built an asynchronous microservice in Go with a custom rules engine to replace the old credit check.
Peer Coach @ Hogeschool Rotterdam 👨🏫
August 2018 - August 2019
- Helped out Computer Science teachers with first-year students, focusing on programming and math.
- Ran workshops and tutored students, making tricky topics more approachable.
- Played a big part in setting up open days, hackathons, and welcome weeks.