09/22/2026 updated
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Engineering & technology leader focused on digital platforms, architecture, payments, ecommerce
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Only remote
Degree in Information Systems / TechnologyAbout me
Senior Technology & Engineering leader with a strong background in building, scaling, & modernising digital platforms and retail systems. Over 13 years of experience spanning software engineering, architecture, and people leadership, including responsibility for large engineering organisations.
Java (Programming Language)JavaScript.NET FrameworkPHPApplication Programming Interfaces (APIs)Agile MethodologyBusiness Relationship ManagementCloud ComputingDevOpsDigitizationDjangoE-CommercePython (Programming Language)MongoDBNode.js
Program Direction & Delivery Management
Leadership in complex multi-country transformations covering POS, payments, loyalty, and omnichannel integration with proven track record in enterprise-scale rollouts
Retail & Digital Commerce Platforms
Extensive experience in e-commerce platform development, POS integration, and digital transformation initiatives for retail organizations
Solution Architecture & Engineering
Technical expertise in designing and implementing scalable solutions using modern technologies including React, Python, Django, MongoDB, and cloud platforms
Portfolio & Stakeholder Management
Management of direct reports and contribution to department-level strategy with strong stakeholder engagement capabilities
Vendor Management & Fiscal Compliance
Experience in managing vendor relationships and ensuring fiscal compliance in complex technology implementations
API Integrations & Omnichannel Solutions
Technical proficiency in API development and integration for seamless omnichannel customer experiences
Agile & DevOps Methodologies
Implementation of agile development practices and DevOps workflows for efficient software delivery
Full-Stack Development
Hands-on development experience with modern web technologies including Javascript Frameworks (NodeJS, React, Vue), Python, .NET, PHP, Java, and cloud platforms
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2022
Languages
EnglishFluentFrenchBasic knowledgePortugueseNative speakerSpanishGood
Project history
Scope: 15+ countries | 300+ stores | POS + Payments + Loyalty | multi-vendor delivery (Cegid, Adyen, VIVA Payments, Salesforce)
Acted as a technical advisor across POS, loyalty, payments, and integrations, shaping solution designs, refining
requirements, and validating implementation choices across internal teams and vendors.
- Worked hands-on across APIs and integrations through validation, troubleshooting, and debugging, while
challenging vendors to improve technical solutions through clear recommendations and architecture-level
guidance.
- Standardized POS across countries by moving away from fragmented local systems, reducing complexity and
delivering approx. €1.5M/year in run-rate savings.
- Transitioned retail payments from local PSPs to Adyen as the global PSP across 15+ countries and 300+ stores,
reducing transaction fees by approx. 65% and enabling more scalable expansion.
- Delivered multi-country POS, payments, and loyalty rollouts across Europe (Cegid Y2, MyTriumph), meeting local
fiscal and regulatory constraints while keeping stores stable through go-live and hypercare.
- Built the rollout operating model, including go/no-go criteria, cutover playbooks, and hypercare, making
launches more repeatable and reducing delivery risk.
- Tech stack: AWS (SNS, SQS, Lambda, EC2), Azure, SAP, POSDM, Cegid Y2, Dell Boomi, Salesforce Service/Marketing Cloud, Adyen, REST APIs
Scope: 25+ engineers | 4 backend teams | core commerce domains | on-call + incident governance.
- Managed 25+ engineers across 4 backend teams for BESTSELLER Ecommerce (> 1B EUR) supporting 14+ global brands.
- Owned hiring and performance cycles across the 4 teams (calibration, growth plans, and keeping the bar consistent).
- Created shared standards across teams (architecture principles, observability baseline, incident hygiene) so teams didn't drift into four different ways of working.
- Owned engineering delivery + operational performance for core commerce domains: Order Management, Payments, Pricing, Inventory, Shipping, Product Data, Omnichannel.
- Raised availability and performance by driving reliability practices (RCA discipline, service ownership, and continuous improvement loops).
- Defined architectural direction for distributed Java microservices and event-driven platforms on AWS, establishing reliability patterns, scalability models, and observability standards to support high-throughput multi-brand commerce workloads.
- Owned platform reliability and incident governance, implementing structured alerting, monitoring (Datadog), and on-call processes (PagerDuty) to maintain high availability and continuously reduce service degradation and recovery times.
Tech stack: AWS (S3, Athena, EKS, EC2, Lambda, Cloudfront, RDS), Confluent/Kafka, Redis, Oracle, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Adyen, REST APIs, GraphQL, Datadog