I turn chaotic engineering organisations into lean, predictable, high-velocity machines.
Decisive, candid, no-nonsense.
Based in the Netherlands. Working across Europe.
Most organisations move too slowly because they're stuck in endless alignment meetings, perfect slide decks, and the fear of hurting someone's feelings. A love for process over progress.
I believe radical simplicity, fast decisions, and a strong bias for shipping beat yet another "agile transformation" every single time. I've spent the last 12+ years stepping into engineering organisations that needed to move faster: Royal Schiphol Group, NOS, DEGIRO, Ginger Payments, and others. Making the hard calls and leaving them healthier than when I arrived.
I do this because unclear situations irritate me until I make them clear. It's less of a choice and more of how I'm built. I see fog, I cut through it. I see waste, I want to fix it.
Most people start out wanting to do good work. When I walk into a broken organisation, I see what happens when that impulse gets crushed: endless process, decisions that never stick, talented people who've learned that caring only leads to burnout. They didn't become apathetic. They were made that way. You spend most of your life at work. It's a waste when those years go to bullshit.
I do this because I'm good at it and because hard problems keep me engaged. When the fog clears and people can breathe again, when they remember why they wanted to do this work, that's the payoff.