Director of Engineering · TomTom, Amsterdam
Building the Platforms
that Power Engineering
at Scale.
Two decades scaling engineering organisations — from banking transformation at VeriPark, to global SDLC standardisation at Booking, to leading Platform Engineering for 1,500+ engineers at TomTom.
Speaker — DX Summit London · Cloud Expo Amsterdam · Devnot Istanbul · Bind2Tech Podcast
Areas of Expertise
Platform Engineering
Building Internal Developer Platforms that treat infrastructure as a product. Golden paths, self-service, and organisational autonomy at scale.
Developer Experience
Reducing cognitive load and cycle time for engineering organisations. SDLC standardisation, DORA metrics, and removing friction from the developer journey.
FinOps
P&L fluency across engineering. Cloud cost ownership, vendor strategy, and embedding cost-aware culture across 100M€+ spend environments.
Security
Infrastructure security, compliance at scale, and resilience engineering. Ensuring the platform is the right way — and the secure way — by default.
Speaking
All talks →Unlocking Your Team's Potential by Creating the Right Environment
Bind2Tech Podcast
How psychological safety, reduced friction, and the right environment are the real levers for unlocking engineering team potential.
ListenEmbracing Change for Transformational DX Leadership
Developer Experience Summit · London
Why transformational DX leadership demands decisive action, human-centred organisation design, and the courage to cut through chaos.
View talkNavigating Transformation: Change Management in the Modern Software Landscape
Cyber Security & Cloud Expo Europe · Amsterdam
How engineering leaders can navigate organisational transformation without losing direction, momentum, or their team.
View talkLatest Perspectives
All articles →The Platform Is the Variable
Teams burn months debating microservices versus monorepos. The structure you pick matters far less than whether the platform underneath makes it cheap to operate. A pattern from two architectures that looked opposite and failed or won for the same reason.
ReadThe Right Question
The most expensive work an engineering team does is the work that answers the wrong question. A pattern I've seen break CTO-CEO alignment across orgs of every size, and the pause that fixes it.
ReadFive Careers Inside One
I haven't had one career in engineering leadership. I've had five : and no single environment could have taught me all of them.
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