Director of Engineering · TomTom, Amsterdam
Building the Platforms
that Power Engineering
at Scale.
Two decades scaling engineering organisations — from banking transformation at VeriPark, to global SDLC standardisation at Booking, to leading Platform Engineering for 1,500+ engineers at TomTom.
Speaker — DX Summit London · Amsterdam · Istanbul · Cambridge Judge Business School
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Areas of Expertise
Platform Engineering
Building Internal Developer Platforms that treat infrastructure as a product. Golden paths, self-service, and organisational autonomy at scale.
Developer Experience
Reducing cognitive load and cycle time for engineering organisations. SDLC standardisation, DORA metrics, and removing friction from the developer journey.
FinOps
P&L fluency across engineering. Cloud cost ownership, vendor strategy, and embedding cost-aware culture across 100M€+ spend environments.
Security
Infrastructure security, compliance at scale, and resilience engineering. Ensuring the platform is the right way — and the secure way — by default.
Latest Perspectives
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Two words I learned 15 years ago. I don't remember the trainer's name, but those words changed how I lead.
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We celebrate the launch. We ignore the next ten years. The 60–70% of engineering effort that actually decides whether your product survives.
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Fifteen years ago in bank environments, I was doing DevOps, Golden Paths, and IDP work — before any of those names existed.
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