I build data and DevOps platforms on Azure: lakehouses, pipelines, CI/CD and MLOps for banks, insurers and energy companies. Before that I worked in quantitative finance, on credit risk, IFRS 17 and Solvency II, with degrees in actuarial science and finance. Data Analytics SQL Lab turns my ten-day PostgreSQL programme into the work of an analyst at an insurer, built as the kind of production-grade software I now ship.
Experience
Lead Data | DevOps Engineer
SEFE Securing Energy for Europe GmbH
Oct 2024 to present · Kassel, Germany, remoteCross-functional team building a sales reporting and forecasting platform on Azure for four business units.
Designed and built 25 production pipelines in Azure Synapse Analytics and Data Factory on a medallion architecture, processing 12 GB a day from Salesforce, Dynamics 365, REST APIs and legacy systems across four countries.
Designed the reporting warehouse on Azure SQL Managed Instance serving 150+ reports, and streaming ingestion of energy meter reads with Service Bus and Functions.
Established MLOps on Databricks with MLflow, taking two forecasting models from notebook to production, and led YAML Azure DevOps CI/CD across five environments.
Data Architect / DevOps Engineer
ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
Jan 2023 to Sep 2024 · AmsterdamDevOps team of seven delivering an integrated data platform for credit-risk stress testing and EBA regulatory reporting.
Owned the Azure solution architecture: a medallion lakehouse on Azure Data Lake and Databricks that delivered the bank's 2023 EBA stress-test cycle on schedule.
Translated credit-risk requirements from risk and finance stakeholders into designs, and built the lakehouse through Azure DevOps pipelines with around 20 curated credit-risk tables.
Azure Data Architect / Data Engineer
ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
May 2021 to Oct 2022 · AmsterdamDevOps team building a Domain Data Store for Finance and Risk on Azure.
Integrated five golden sources into the Finance and Risk domain store, with ingestion and monitoring in Azure Data Factory.
Led the migration of an Oracle application to Azure with a data-quality framework of 200+ automated checks, and implemented technical and business data lineage for audit traceability.
DevOps Data Analyst
a.s.r.
May 2020 to Apr 2021 · AmsterdamIFRS 17 implementation programme.
Translated IFRS 17 requirements for model validation, ran functional and performance testing in the accounting hub, and delivered analytics on measurement calculations for external auditors.
Implemented the vendor IFRS 17 solution (Wolters Kluwer Tagetik) and managed user acceptance testing.
Senior Consultant, Data Science
Synechron
Jun 2018 to Apr 2020 · Randstad, NetherlandsFinancial-services consultancy with engagements at Nationale-Nederlanden and other banking and insurance clients.
Designed a common data model for Nationale-Nederlanden's IFRS 17 programme, aggregating 15 international business units' source systems.
Built a probability-of-default model for a retail portfolio and a client-churn model; delivered document classification and entity extraction with deep neural networks for a KYC project on AWS SageMaker.
Taught the internal Python-for-data-analytics course.
Risk Analyst
Nationale-Nederlanden (NN Re)
Aug 2017 to Feb 2018 · The HagueRisk department of NN Re.
Produced quarterly risk-capital regulatory reporting under internal and standard models, and performed Solvency II measurement calculations.
Validated hedge-effectiveness parameters and expense-risk models in R, and the internal cash-flow model with a Python shadow model.
Education
MSc Artificial Intelligence
University of Liverpool · 2026 to 2027
Postgraduate studies, Applied Generative AI
The Johns Hopkins University · 2025 to 2026
Postgraduate programme, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
The University of Texas at Austin · 2019 to 2020
MSc Actuarial Science & Mathematical Finance
University of Amsterdam · 2016 to 2018
Postgraduate Certificate, Advanced Credit Risk Management
Delft University of Technology · 2017
MA Finance
Goethe Business School, Goethe University Frankfurt · 2014 to 2015
Master of Engineering Science
Curtin University · 2007 to 2009
MBA
Business School Nederland · 2006 to 2007
Certifications
Writing
On Medium
Enterprise Adoption of Agentic AI: A 12-Point Framework That Actually Scales
PostgreSQL Professional Learning Program (10-Day Portfolio Project)
Kimball vs. Inmon: A Narrative Exploration of Two Data Warehouse Philosophies
Prompt Engineering: Why ChatGPT Doesn't Always Give You the Answer You Expect
Bayes' Theorem: The Basis of Machine Learning, A Beginner's Guide
Introduction to Multi-Head Attention: A Beginner's Guide (Part 1)
Introduction to systemd in Linux: A Beginner's Guide
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