About me

I started as a .NET and SharePoint architect, building for Kadaster, CIZ, Wageningen UR, Malmberg and a dozen other organisations. Along the way I co-created a content management system, built a complete club platform from private cloud to kiosk app, and published an open AngularJS library. I learned early that the interesting problems are never the code; they are the organisation around it.

From 2016 I moved into enterprise architecture and cloud transformation: Azure environments, a data platform built as the path to machine learning, business continuity, a laboratory system migration without a minute of downtime. At BuyBay, as Manager IT & Architecture and then Strategic Technology Leader, I rebased IT for a scale-up, led Azure and Microsoft 365 adoption, and replaced the warehouse and transport systems. At MultiBel, as Head of IT, I introduced AI-assisted working across departments and took the security management system towards ISO 27001.

Today I am Strategic Product Manager Information & AI at PinkRoccade Local Government, also known as Head of Product Data & AI, after roles as Development Manager and Manager Customer Care on the management team. I lead the move from a portfolio of loose products to one platform, and the development of the open-source ZGW specifications for Common Ground. Before that, at MultiBel, I introduced agents, skills, MCP servers and a company memory into daily work, and the quality-assurance intake went from three to four hours to thirty minutes per inquiry. My thesis is that AI for municipalities only works on top of a complete, governed platform, and on my own time I built a prototype of one to test it: policy enforced outside the prompt, human approval where the stakes require it, evidence that cannot be edited afterwards.

I build with AI agents every week, under written rules about what they may never do. That is where my point of view comes from: not from reading about AI governance, but from being the person who has to answer for what the agents did.