04/26/2026 updated
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100 % availableArchitect | Data & Analytics Expert | Platform Engineer
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Only remote
Master in Econometrics & Mathematical Economics, Tilburg University (2020-2021)About me
Independent data & analytics engineer available fractionally I join your team, hit the ground running with task such as own a migration, fix a broken pipeline, build the BI layer. AWS / Azure / GCP. Delivered for bol.com, ABN AMRO, Marktplaats, AllianzDirect, Fastned and others.
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Senior Data & Analytics Engineer with 9+ years of experience designing, migrating, and operating cloud data platforms for enterprise clients across e-commerce, banking, insurance, telecom, energy, transportation, and infrastructure. I lead end-to-end migrations from legacy reporting (Excel, on-prem warehouses) to modern lakehouses on AWS, Azure, and GCP — and the BI / analytics layer that sits on top of them.
Core stack
Databricks (Lakehouse, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, PySpark) — 5+ years
dbt (Cloud + Core) with ELT pipelines on AWS S3 / Athena and Snowflake — 3+ years
AWS — Redshift, Glue, MSK (Kafka), S3, Athena, EMR, EC2 — 5+ years
Azure — Synapse, Data Factory, Data Lake Gen2, DevOps — 4+ years
GCP — BigQuery, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Vertex AI — 2+ years
Microsoft Fabric — Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Notebooks, Pipelines
SQL, Python, PySpark, DAX, M Code — daily
Data engineering specialisations
End-to-end cloud data warehouse / lakehouse migrations (Excel/legacy → Synapse → Databricks; InforLN ERP → AWS Redshift)
Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion architecture
Data mesh implementation with domain ownership and Unity Catalog governance
Change Data Capture (CDC), real-time streaming (Debezium, Kafka, MSK)
Data-as-a-Service via API-based exchange for B2B partners
ELT pipelines, semantic layers, star and snowflake schemas
Analytics & BI
Power BI ecosystem — datasets, dataflows, Power Query, paginated reports, RLS, embedded analytics — 5+ years
Tableau, Qlik, Looker
Geospatial visualisation in Power BI
Self-service analytics enablement and semantic-layer design
Project management & enablement
Lead Data Engineer / BI Lead on multi-year platform programmes
Stakeholder workshops, KPI alignment, JIRA epic monetisation
Knowledge transfer and team enablement built into every engagement
Trainer for Data and Agile programmes (Rabobank, Philips, Nationale Nederlanden, Janssen Vaccines, Learning Tree, GrowthTribe)
Selected client references
bol.com (GCP fraud-detection pipeline, 3M+ events/month) · ABN AMRO (Databricks compliance reporting, 2,600 applications, ECB audit) · AllianzDirect (Azure Synapse → Databricks data mesh) · Benerail (Excel → Synapse → Databricks + Data-as-a-Service) · VodafoneZiggo (multi-channel telemetry platform) · Fastned (AWS Redshift DWH, demand forecasting) · Marktplaats (Databricks experimentation infrastructure) · Floward (AWS + Databricks streaming + dbt) · Metito (InforLN → Redshift via Glue) · GulfMerc Exchange (SQL Server dimensional models, Power BI) · Shopforward (MS Fabric + Power BI) · Shimano (Oracle JDE → SAP HANA migration validation)
Certifications — PL-300, DP-600 (MS Fabric Analytics Engineer), DP-900, AZ-900, PSM I & II, Tableau Analyst, TOGAF 9.2, ICF Level 1.
Languages — English (full professional), Dutch (B1), Urdu (native).
Experience
Professional experience5 - 10 years
Freelancer since2020
Languages
EnglishNative speakerDutchGood
Project history
Design and ship production LLM systems end-to-end: architecture, build, and deployment. Projects include Bunya (Context Intelligence Platform), Working HR Agent (recruitment automation), Full-Stack Cold Emailing Agent, RAGBOT Dashboard, Citizen Service Agent, and Personalized Email Writer. Tech Stack: AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Claude API, OpenAI, FastAPI, React, Streamlit, Neo4j, Databricks, n8n, Make.com, Python.
Helped Marktplaats build better AI workflows as part of the PA team. Set up a team-wide Git Repo powered by Claude to centralise content from colleagues, ensuring accessibility and knowledge sharing. Tech Stack: DataBricks, Tableau, Python, SQL.
Automated trial balance generation from legacy journal entries with GL mapping framework for company-level P&L and balance sheets. Built automated extraction pipeline for exchange data from PDFs/CSVs. Compressed 4-hour bi-weekly SAP inventory reconciliation into single-click automation. Tech Stack: SQL, Python, Make.com, Azure Data Lake, Power BI, SAP integration, On-premise databases, ETL pipelines.