Engineer turned Product Manager with a passion for creating products. Excels at analyzing market needs and translating them to technical solutions that can be delivered quickly. Enjoys both deep technical discussions as well as appeasing analysts. Well rounded background in backend engineering as well as cloud architectures and frontending.
2019 - Present
Working with various teams across the globe, working on constantly identifying new products and bringing them to market. Collaborate across the organization: engineering, marketing, sales and analyst relations. Externally, focused on customer interactions and launching products through blogs and other marketing collateral.
2017 - 2019
Responsible for roadmap and product development of technologies and products to allow customers to build out conversational user interfaces with a combination of visual modeling and NLP technologies.
Worked with stakeholders, customers, user interface designers and engineering to ideate, design and implement multiple products throughout the product lifecycle.
2015 - 2017
Responsible for roadmap and vision of Mendix' web and mobile offerings. Collaborated with stakeholders and analysts to translate market trends and customer requirements to technical solutions and setting priorities for teams. Topics include transitioning to cordova native apps and introducing a react web-based page editor.
Positioned and demonstrated capabilities for multiple analysts, including Gartner magic quadrants (MADP, PaaS) and Forrester Wave (Public Cloud Platforms for Rapid Devs)
2011 - 2015
Created the Mendix cloud team, growing our hosting facilities from one rack in one datacenter to a multicloud architecture spanning 5 datacenters and with more than 5000 virtual machines. Architected Mendix' first generation PaaS offering including user-facing full service monitoring, backups and live-logging. Functioned as scrum master and grew the team from zero to 8 people.
2008-2011
Engineer #8 out of eventually 70 at Mendix R&D. Worked on the Java backend that interprets and executes Mendix models. Set up Webservices module that allows users to graphically map and consume SOAP webservices. Reengineered the custom application server that loads and runs Mendix models.
Bsc. Telematics
Program focused on the interaction of processes and or people through the application of information and communication technology. Heavy focus on networking and systems engineering. Achieved extra credits in Functional Programming and advanced software engineering.
