I’m Frank
I’m an engineering leader who likes difficult, unclear situations.
Based in the Netherlands, working across Europe. I take on interim CTO and VP Engineering work when a team needs clearer decisions, less drag and a way to ship again.
What I bring
I started coding in 1999 and have led engineering organisations for more than a decade, from team lead to CTO. I still get close to the work when it helps: code, delivery pipelines, product decisions and the awkward conversations everyone else has postponed.
I’ve worked with organisations including Royal Schiphol Group, DEGIRO, NOS and Leaseweb. Names are less interesting than the recurring problem: good people stuck in a system that makes useful work unnecessarily hard.
Unclear situations irritate me until I make them clear. I see fog and want to cut through it. I see waste and want to fix it. You spend too much of your life at work for it to go on bullshit.
How I work
- I say what needs saying, including when it is uncomfortable.
- I look for the actual constraint before prescribing a fix.
- I remove process that does not help people deliver.
- I would rather ship a useful change than host another alignment meeting.
- When a decision is ready, I make it. Not next quarter.
- Dry humour, strong coffee and very little patience for corporate bullshit.
Best fit
- You are ready to make a few uncomfortable changes.
- You want an honest view, not someone to validate the status quo.
- You have the authority to act on what we find.
If that sounds like the problem you have, book a call.