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Over 20 Years of Experience

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer with over 20 years of experience in Content, Commerce, and Marketing Technology, I deliver scalable, integrated, and data-driven solutions that create impactful user experiences.

🎯 Key Competences

  • Full Stack Engineer — with extensive expertise in SEO, Marketing Technology, CRO, CRM, UX Data, Segmentation, Personalization, Web Performance, Information Architecture, Internationalization, Localization, Distribution, and Commerce Platforms.
  • Proficient in Strategy, Product, and Engineering Management — the why, what, how, who, and when, for product and organizational development.
  • Corporate entrepreneur — Discovering business opportunities upon existing capabilities, and making incremental improvements to accelerate growth.

📈 Results-Driven Technical Leader

Combining full-stack product development, leadership, and marketing expertise, I drive impactful results through development, cross-functional teamwork, and problem-solving, fostering a culture of innovation and collective ownership.

rhizomatic
2024 - 20251 year
Remote

AI Enablement & Proxy Developer

 Context Engineering & Delivery

Launched an enterprise-level online gateway and development stack of full Ubuntu VMs, custom Docker images, and a fully configured OpenResty, nginx, Lua based proxy, CDN, and API gateway. Separated environments, full code-based setup, secure secrets management, geo and user aware, redis sessions, WAF, and more.

helloprint
2018 - 20246.5 years
Hybrid & Rotterdam, NL

Scale-up and global marketplace for customized printed products, serving 31 countries, 100+ white-label shops, 650,000+ customers, 300+ producers, and 100M+ customizable product combinations.

The main interface consists of 10 main- & 70 sub-categories, 1,600 product listing and landing pages per language, 12 languages, 2 currencies, 2 funnel types allowing full product customization, 2 search & filter functions, and about 40 to 50 extremely versatile modular content blocks.

Providing innovative product development and optimization, based on Strategy Days, OKRs, and KPIs. Consistently collaborating cross-teams, with management, marketing, data, design, customer service, DevOps, and content operations; boosting both efficiency and revenue through topical knowledge sharing and the continuous creation of new capabilities.

Effectively hands-on full stack development and technical owner of frontend scalability, web performance, content architecture, marketing automation integrations, technical SEO, CRO, and personalization. Actively participated in hiring processes to expand both development and SEO teams.

Main Tech Stack
  • PHP
  • PrestaShop
  • Symfony
  • Smarty
  • jQuery
  • Vue.js
  • Nuxt.js
  • Gulp
  • CSS
  • BEM
  • Webpack
  • GitLab
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • MongoDB
  • Algolia
  • Contentful
  • RabbitMQ
  • TailwindCSS
  • Innovation AwardRevived growth by implementing a MarTech ecosystem, enhancing loyalty, CRO, and content processes.
  • Achieving Results AwardLeadership Program — Main Prize
helloprint

Innovation Engineer
 Process Automation & Efficiency
2023 - 20241.5 years

Engineered customer‑service integrations into a unified dashboard for increased agent efficiency. Launched a SaaS dashboard and on-site AI-chat widget for a new multi-tenant subscription business model. Modernized content operations by creating a new headless CMS integration and on-page editing.


helloprint

Technical SEO Product Manager
 Marketing & Technology
2021 - 20232 years

Actively leading the practical implementation of technical SEO standards & solutions. Driving the 4-person SEO team and the 10-person content team forward with the creation of internal products, enhancing operational capabilities, and providing on-site features. Lead frontend guild of 6 frontend developers divided across 3 teams (on-site and remote).


helloprint

Lead Full Stack MarTech Developer
 Growth & Customer Journey
2018 - 20213 years

Pioneering developer and technical lead for the implementation and operations of Customer Data, CRO A/B & multivariate testing, product feeds, email automation, discounting, segmentation, and personalization. Renewed the integration of the customer data platform and its 700+ data events, enhancing the capabilities of the marketing & CRO teams. Hands-on lead in frontend architecture, performance, and techSEO, for both the production monolith and the new frontend during the replatforming initiative.

drawnames
2017 - 20181 year
Delft, NL

Frontend Framework Developer

 Enhancing UX for 8 million visitors

DrawNames.com / Lootjestrekken.nl attracts 8 million annual visitors seeking efficient gift-searching and gift-giving experiences for Secret Santa events.

Created a high-performance frontend framework. This involved architecting, developing, and documenting a fast-loading solution to elevate user satisfaction and engagement.

Skills
  • Front-End Development
  • BEM
  • ITCSS
  • SVG
  • C#
  • MsSQL
  • Vue.js
  • Usability
  • Webpack
  • JavaScript
  • Web Performance
  • Search & Filter

rhizomatic
2011 - 20187 years
Remote

Product Developer

 Taking ideas into digital solutions

Versatile contractor specialized in business analysis, product design, architecture, and full-stack web development. Collaborations spanned from requirements discovery to operational training, ensuring successful project delivery and long-term impact.

  • The Webby Awards HonoreeSearch & Filter solution, and relational main navigation, for a major US law firm providing access to cases, lawyers, industries, news, and events.

Valantic
2007 - 20114 years
Rotterdam, NL

Service Manager

Responsible for the daily service, campaigns, and extensions of content, newsletter, and commerce platforms for various clients.

Actively applying technical, functional, and commercial experience while working with various development teams. Balancing between maintenance and projects, through SCRUM and issue tracking.

Frontend Developer

Creation of full enterprise layouts, components and email campaigns as first Frontend Developer. Photoshop to HTML/CSS frontend development, and integration of content and newsletter management systems.

Skills
  • Front-End Development
  • CMS
  • Scrum
  • C#
  • Photoshop
  • Newsletter templates
  • E-commerce
  • .NET
  • Training
  • CSS
  • HTML
  • ITIL Service Management

Education

  • Bachelor of Science (Bsc.) Information Technology
    Graphic Media Technology
    Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (2005)
  • Highschool in The Netherlands (2000) and U.S.A. (2001)

1996 First websites online

Using plain HTML with inline styles, frames, tables, Comic Sans, GIF animations, marquee blinkers, site rings, and visitor counters. Hosted on Xoom & GeoCities.

 
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