Time to get IT right
Fractional CTO · Available for Remote Engagements
Time to get IT right.
The right technology decision, at the moment it matters most.
Whether you’re building your first platform, modernizing a legacy landscape, or navigating regulatory complexity — I’ve been on your side of the table. As a Fractional CTO, I bring 35 years of hands-on experience to the decisions that shape your organization.
35+
Years building & scaling platforms
8
Platforms taken from concept to scale
99.99%
Uptime achieved on critical infrastructure
4
Languages for international teams
WHO I HELP
Every organization faces a different technology challenge.
The solutions look different too. Find your situation — and see how experienced technology leadership changes the outcome.
WHO I HELP
Building from zero and can't afford to get the foundation wrong?
You need to ship fast, but the wrong architecture now means painful rewrites later. You don’t have the budget for a full-time CTO, but the decisions you’re making about tech stack, infrastructure, and team structure will define your company for years. I’ve taken 8 platforms from concept through PoC, MVP, and product-market fit to scale-out — and I know exactly which shortcuts are safe and which ones will haunt you.
10x
cquisition cost reduction (InCaSe marketplace)
L1 → L3
CMMI maturity growth in 18 months
6 mo
rom concept to live platform (CJP)
ENTERPRISE & MID-MARKET
Legacy technology creating drag on your entire organization?
It’s not just the systems — it’s the skills gap, the knowledge silos, the culture that resists change. Your teams are maintaining yesterday’s architecture instead of building tomorrow’s. Cloud migration feels risky, modernization projects keep stalling, and every vendor promises transformation but delivers complexity. I’ve led these transformations from the inside — not as a consultant writing reports, but as the person responsible for making it actually work.
3mo → 3wk
delivery cycle reduction (Buckaroo)
99.99%
uptime through automated failover
#1
first PCI-DSS certified PSP in NL
GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC SECTOR
Regulations growing faster than your ability to comply?
Tendering laws fragmented your application landscape. Information silos block integration across departments. New legislation demands transparency, accessibility, and digital services — but you’re short on skills, capacity, and architectural coherence. Meanwhile, the gap between policy ambition and technical reality keeps widening. I’ve been in this exact position — translating WOO, Archiefwet, and WCAG into working systems while navigating the realities of public sector IT.
50K+
documents/year made searchable (Haarlem)
3
multi-year strategies delivered
CG
Common Ground architecture adoption
PROVEN RESULTS
Outcomes that changed organizations. Not slide decks that described change.
Startup → Leader
Buckaroo Online Payments
10h / week saved
Numus Cash — Retail IoT
Built IoT platform automating cash counting across thousands of retail locations. Custom hardware, real-time monitoring, PCI-grade security. From concept to scale-out.
<1s response time
Toweya — Federated Search Engine
Built IoT platform automating cash counting across thousands of retail locations. Custom hardware, real-time monitoring, PCI-grade security. From concept to scale-out.
Open Government
Gemeente Haarlem
Architected publication platform making 50,000+ documents/year transparent and searchable. Multi-year IT strategy: cloud migration, core app replacement, regie-organization.
6 months flat
CJP — Education Platform
From concept to live system managing culture subsidies for hundreds of thousands of students across thousands of schools. Financial reconciliation fully automated.
10x cost reduction
InCaSe — Social Marketplace
Platform-as-a-Service enabling merchants to slash customer acquisition costs. Taken from concept through PoC, MVP to product-market fit.
HOW I WORK
Engagement, not embedding. Outcomes, not hours.
I operate as an independent technology leader. Every engagement is designed around what changes for your organization — not how many days I sit in your office.
01
Diagnose
Deep-dive into your technology landscape, team capabilities, and business objectives. Where are you now? Where do you need to be? What’s actually blocking you? I find the highest-impact interventions — not the longest project plan.
02
Architect
Design the target architecture, migration roadmap, and implementation plan. This isn’t a 200-page document your team won’t read. It’s a clear, actionable strategy they can start executing immediately — because I’ve built the systems it describes.
03
Transform
Guide execution through architecture reviews, team mentoring, process optimization, and hands-on problem solving. I stay engaged until the transformation holds on its own — then I make myself unnecessary. That’s the goal.
ABOUT
Engineer by training.
Builder by instinct.
Leader by experience.
Today I work as a Fractional CTO and Digital Transformation Advisor. I help organizations across Europe and beyond make better technology decisions — the kind that compound over years, not the kind that look good in a quarterly review.
📚I also write about the systems that shape our world. My book on economic sustainability and democratic dynamics has been published in Dutch, German, French, and English editions.
English — Fluent
Dutch — Native
German — Fluent
French — Advanced
Time to get IT right.
Facing the same challenges?
Every Dutch municipality deals with these problems. The difference is whether you build from scratch or build on proven foundations. Let’s talk about what makes sense for your organization.