Engineering leadership
Clear ownership and sound technical judgment, so teams building complex platforms know what they own and why.
Engineering leader for AI products. 15M+ researchers use what my teams build each year.
I am an engineering manager and a solution architect at Elsevier. I took LeapSpace from inception to production in under 6 months, and it passed 1M active users within 10 months of launch. Before that I led Scopus AI and Engineering Village.
Based in Amsterdam.
- 15M+Researchers served each year by Scopus AI and LeapSpace
- 1M+Active users on LeapSpace within 10 months of launch
- $6.5M+LeapSpace subscriptions sold since the January 2026 launch
- 135+Engineers led across teams
What I focus on
Architecture at scale
Distributed systems, microservices and cloud platforms that stay maintainable and secure as they grow.
AI engineering
Prototypes turned into production systems that are reliable, observable and secure.
Selected work
Elsevier, Aug 2025 to present
LeapSpace: from zero to 1M+ active users
Launched in January 2026. Subscription sales have passed $6.5M, and active users passed 1M in October 2026.
Elsevier, Sep 2022 to Mar 2024
Engineering Village: a $40M+ discovery platform
About $500K saved per year, and pipelines that are more scalable, more traceable and less error-prone.
Elsevier, Sep 2020 to Aug 2022
Scopus: modernizing a legacy platform
API responses dropped from about 30 seconds to about 3. Releases moved from monthly to daily. NPS went up.
Zoover, Jan 2019 to Sep 2020
Zoover: replacing a 15-year-old legacy system
Average page load fell from 9 seconds to 3.
Engineering principles
Simple systems scale better than clever ones.
Observability is part of the product, not an afterthought.
Security starts with architecture, not after implementation.
AI amplifies judgment; it does not replace it.
Good leadership creates clarity, ownership and room to keep learning.
Let's connect
I write about AI systems, architecture, cloud, backend and engineering leadership. If that overlaps with what you are building or hiring for, say hello.