Principal Architect & Technical Leader
Where engineering
strategy meets
commercial reality.
Most technical leaders see the system. I see the system, the business it serves, and the conversation that needs to happen between them. I have designed event-driven platforms for regulated financial institutions, shaped architecture across 10+ team engineering organisations, and spent eight years as the technical face of an enterprise software company across two continents.
Amsterdam · Mexico City What I bring
Commercial fluency
Eight years embedded in enterprise sales motions across the Americas and Europe: discovery, POCs, RFPs, and architecture reviews at CIO/CTO level. I know how to position technology to move deals forward, and where technical decisions become commercial risk.
Business and software, aligned
Software that isn't grounded in business reality becomes a liability. Business strategy that ignores technical constraints fails in execution. I have spent my career closing that gap: designing systems that serve the business they run on, and making sure both sides understand why.
Technical credibility
15+ years in distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and domain-driven design. Enough depth to ask the right questions, spot the gaps in a proposal, and know when the engineers are right and the business needs to listen.
Selected work
Consistent Solutions
2024 – Present
Founder and Principal Architect. Independent practice serving enterprises and scale-ups across Europe and Latin America, combining architecture leadership with commercial technical advisory. Current clients include ABN AMRO and Axoniq.
ABN AMRO Bank
2026 – Present
Domain Architect across the mortgage division. Setting technical direction for 10+ development teams in a regulated financial environment, using domain-driven design and Event Modeling to align engineering with business strategy.
Axoniq
2018 – Present
Eight years as technical face across the Americas and Europe: enterprise pre-sales, architecture reviews at CIO/CTO level, and supporting deal closure. Trained 200+ developers and architects globally. Retained as Senior Solutions Architect for LATAM.
Earlier experience
2010 – 2018
| ING Bank | Senior Consultant | 2017 – 2018 |
| Randstad | Senior Consultant & Scrum Master | 2016 – 2017 |
| Insignety | CTO | 2015 – 2016 |
| Trivento | Software Engineer | 2015 |
| EagleScience | Software Engineer | 2010 – 2015 |
Background
I'm Dutch, based in Amsterdam, and spent five years living and working in Mexico City. I hold Mexican Permanent Resident status and maintain an active client portfolio across Latin America.
I work fluently in English, Dutch, and Spanish. I'm comfortable at the board table and in the codebase, and I move between them without losing context in either direction.
I hold an MSc in Computer Science from Delft University of Technology. I run my independent architecture practice serving enterprises and scale-ups across Europe and the Americas.
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