Netherlands · Remote

Software Engineer
& Builder.

I build reliable backend systems, automation tools, and small products that solve real-world problems.

6 years across backend systems, APIs, databases, infrastructure, performance engineering, and automation. Now using AI-assisted development to turn useful ideas into working products faster.

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Selected work

Products, not
just projects.

01 Active build

The Hague Appointment Alert

A hosted monitoring service that checks municipality appointment availability and alerts users when suitable dates appear.

Matches multiple services against customer-specific date preferences
Real monitoring and simulation modes with automated testing and CI
Continuously deployed for monitoring, with room to expand to more municipalities

TypeScriptNode.jsPlaywrightTelegramGoogle CloudCodex

02 Case study

API Change Assistant

A backend system for ingesting and processing API-change events reliably using asynchronous workflows and database-backed state.

Processes GitHub webhooks and prevents duplicate event handling
Redis-backed Messenger jobs with asynchronous retries
Transactions, locking, automated tests, and CI for concurrency safety

PHPSymfonyPostgreSQLRedisDockerWebhooks

GitHub

Engineering impact

Measured in
outcomes.

Performance

416 → 2

Queries per request

Resolved an N+1 ORM issue, reducing endpoint latency from 213ms to 13ms.

Architecture

97%

Performance improvement

Compared multiple architectural approaches and built proof-of-concept evidence. The selected materialized-view solution improved performance by 97%.

Testing

5,000+

API tests

Co-developed an API testing framework that was adopted team-wide, improving backend test quality and coverage.

Security

121 → 0

Vulnerabilities

Introduced daily vulnerability scanning across 10+ services and coordinated remediation until known vulnerabilities were reduced to zero.

Automation

Hours → Min

SDK generation time

Automated SDK generation workflows, reducing generation time from hours to minutes while preserving repeatability and quality checks.

DeliveryDays → Hours

Contributed to deployment and infrastructure improvements that made releases dramatically faster.

Experience

Six years of
shipping well.

May 2021 — May 2025UK

Evident

Software Engineer

Built and improved scalable backend systems, REST APIs, infrastructure, and engineering workflows in a cross-functional product environment.

Automated Annual Audit operations, reducing workload by approximately 80%, and helped make onboarding approximately 60% faster
Improved APIs, performance, testing, security, and release infrastructure—helping move releases from days to hours
Resolved 50+ high-priority issues through root-cause analysis and led onboarding sessions for 10+ colleagues

Apr 2018 — May 2021Japan

xeArts

Web Developer

Developed full-stack web applications and integrations across e-commerce, frontend, backend optimization, and automation.

Built PHP and PostgreSQL applications with Shopify, Google Translate, and Instagram integrations
Explored machine learning in production-adjacent work, using a CNN image-classification model to help categorize product images

Capabilities

A broad toolkit,
backend first.

Backend Engineering

PHP · Symfony · API Platform · Laravel · Python · Java · REST · OpenAPI

Data & Performance

PostgreSQL · MySQL · Redis · query optimization · ORM optimization · caching

Infrastructure

Docker · Kubernetes · AWS · Google Cloud · CI/CD · GitHub Actions · Linux

Testing & Reliability

PHPUnit · API testing · integration testing · monitoring · debugging

Frontend

TypeScript · JavaScript · Vue.js · HTML · CSS

AI-assisted Development

OpenAI Codex · TensorFlow · PyTorch · scikit-learn · NumPy

About

I like finding overlooked problems and turning them into useful software.

My background is primarily in backend engineering, but I increasingly enjoy owning the complete journey: identifying a problem, designing a solution, building it, deploying it, and learning from real users.

AI-assisted development has made that process even more interesting. It helps me experiment, test assumptions, and ship ideas faster—without compromising the engineering fundamentals that make software dependable.

Backend systemsAutomationDeveloper toolingSmall SaaSAI-assisted building

Education

2021 · Distinction

MSc Advanced Computer Science

University of Sheffield

Machine learning, NLP, software design, and research into deep learning for brain disease diagnosis.

2019

BEng Computer Science

Nagoya Institute of Technology

Automated negotiation research, two publications, and award-winning negotiation agents at PRIANAC and ANAC 2018.

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I’m interested in remote software engineering opportunities, product-focused teams, and interesting collaborations.

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Software Engineer& Builder.

Products, notjust projects.