Engineering leadership with a commercial perspective.

I started as an independent engineer, responsible for understanding a client's problem, scoping the work and getting the product into use. Later roles added hiring, team development, commercial decisions and responsibility for delivery across organisations.

At INFO in Amsterdam, I led a 35-person engineering organisation spanning software development, QA and DevOps. I served on the senior leadership team and worked across technology strategy, people development, presales, delivery and part of the P&L.

I helped change how the studio worked and what it sold. We moved toward smaller full-stack teams suited to the customer's needs, while developing paid consulting and data-platform services. My client work included technical consulting and fractional architecture at Growy, consulting for Greenwheels, and small-team proof-of-concept and technical-strategy work for ErasmusAI.

Today I am Technical Program Manager for openJII at the Jan IngenHousz Institute. I own the platform's technical vision and roadmap and coordinate internal specialists and external development teams around scientific priorities. My work includes product decisions, engineering recruitment, cloud costs and technical coordination with delivery partners. Commercial contract approval remains with the institute's director.

I also develop proposals for AI capability-building and use AI directly in research and engineering. I guide the work, clarify the assumptions and check the outputs against the task. In one research-support workflow, that meant resolving a discrepancy with the scientist, reproducing the correct analysis procedure and returning inspectable results to the platform.

I am completing an MBA in AI, Data & Analytics at the University of Amsterdam. I was a trainer and mentor at the 2026 Photosynthesis Hackathon in Accra and am a coauthor of its resulting bioRxiv preprint.

Alongside JII, I offer fractional CTO and AI strategy support. Clients work with me directly. When additional delivery skills are needed, I can draw on my freelance network or explore a suitable partner arrangement. I am based in Amsterdam and work in English and Croatian, with Dutch improving.