Interim Product Owner, JAM Admin Platform. Led product backlog and delivery for a 4-person cross-functional team, owning prioritization, migration planning, and stakeholder requirements for Kaartje2go's internal admin platform.
Owned product backlog for internal admin platform, sustaining consistent delivery cadence (11-16 items/month) across a cross-functional team.
Defined requirements and shipped a self-service capability for multi-suborder customer service, reducing manual support workload.
Senior Software Developer at Kaartje2Go
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Hybrid - Zwolle, Netherlands
Designed an RFM customer segmentation system processing historical order data using PHP, Symfony, and AWS SQS, improving marketing campaign targeting precision by 60%.
Developed a comprehensive customer support dashboard integrating order history, self-service data, personal information, and support requests. Reduced customer support response time 40% through internal tooling.
Built a real-time component displaying live external support tickets using PHP, Symfony, Live Components, and webhook integrations. Enabling immediate visibility into historical and current customer issues, used by 20+ customer support employees.
Senior Software Developer at Planningsagenda
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Hybrid - Netherlands
Led migration of legacy platform to Laravel, improving maintainability and enabling faster feature delivery.
Introduced PHPUnit testing practices, increasing test coverage by 30% and establishing a test-driven development culture within the team.
Senior Software Developer at Datatrics
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Hybrid - Enschede, Netherlands
Architected and executed a complete rewrite of a large, outdated API using PHP/Laravel. Improved API performance 40% through architecture redesign.
Increased automated test coverage to 90%+ of functionality and introduced static analysis checks to maintain high code quality.
Mentored colleagues and interns, helping them improve Laravel skills and grow into stronger developers, with 2 mentees advancing to senior roles.
Orchestrated collaboration with offshore team consisting of 4 employees, ensuring smooth knowledge sharing and maintaining code quality standards.
Software Developer at Motivo
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Hybrid - Zwolle, Netherlands
Implemented DTAP (Development, Testing, Acceptance, Production) pipeline using CI/CD tools, streamlining development process and boosting deployment efficiency by 50%.
Rolled out Scrum methodology across the organization, fostering an agile, collaborative work environment that improved team velocity.
Mentored colleagues and interns, helping them improve Laravel skills and grow into stronger developers.
Led technical job interviews, evaluating candidates' skills and expertise to ensure a strong fit for the team and projects.
Software Developer at DIJ
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Onsite - Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Built an MVP workflow application using Laravel for an online divorce consultant, streamlining intake-to-processing steps and reducing customer workload by ~30%.
Optimized a high-traffic course offerings page for a school website using caching and cache busting for content changes in a WordPress/Laravel hybrid setup, resulting in 29% faster page loads and improved usability.
Software Developer at Texemus B.V.
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Onsite - Zwolle, Netherlands
Led feature delivery using Laravel + Vue.js in a 3-intern squad, translating requirements into tickets and unblocking day-to-day work, resulting in 20+ features/user stories shipped and reliable sprint progress.
Standardized development workflow using Git pull requests + code reviews on a Laravel/Vue codebase, reviewing 30+ PRs and mentoring 3 interns, resulting in cleaner merges and fewer follow-up fixes after review/QA.
Software Engineer at Molenbergmedia
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Onsite - Zwolle, Netherlands
Gained specific knowledge that is needed for physical production within the reprographic industry.
Created a fully functional application that was just in our production department to create leaflets and books in small to medium sizes.