Welcome to my page!!!

I am:

Robin

and I... write.... CODE

I am a Software engineer specializing in data engineering, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack web app development. I enjoy working for big corporations but also enjoy helping the small enterprises with cost efficient solutions!

See what I do ↓
Portrait of Robin
01.

What I Can Do For You

Data Engineering

Designing and building scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and data warehouse solutions that turn raw data into actionable insights.

  • A lot of experience using Databricks, but also a big open-source fan (DuckDB, Dagster)
  • Data pipeline architecture & orchestration
  • Data warehouse & lakehouse design
  • Real-time streaming & batch processing
  • Data quality & governance frameworks
  • Experience with both big scale enterprise implementations, as well as small scale cost efficient dataplatform implementations
EU · US

Cloud Infrastructure & Architecture

Building, migrating and running infrastructure on the cloud that fits your business. Hands-on with the American hyperscalers (AWS, Azure) and with European providers, with a focus on data sovereignty, GDPR compliance and performance optimization.

  • AWS & Azure
  • European providers (OVH, Scaleway)
  • Experience with hosting apps with Kubernetes & Docker
  • Migrations between providers, including AWS/Azure to European clouds
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep)
  • Been acting as the deployment manager of Cloud ClinIQ for a year without downtime

Full Stack Development

End-to-end web application development using modern frameworks and best practices. From design and the data model to deployment and maintenance.

  • Vue / Nuxt
  • Python (Django), Kotlin (KTOR or Spring) and Golang proficiency
  • REST & GraphQL API design

DevOps & Automation

Turning slow, manual releases into automated, repeatable delivery. I build the pipelines, environments and guardrails that let teams ship with confidence, every single day.

  • Azure DevOps & GitHub: pipelines, boards, repos and releases
  • CI/CD with GitHub Actions & Azure Pipelines, from commit to production
  • Docker & Kubernetes container workflows (Currently aiming to get CKA certified)
  • Automated testing, security scanning & quality gates
  • Monitoring, observability & fast, safe rollbacks
02.

Selected Projects

Patient Management System · 2023 – present

Cloud ClinIQ

Lead software engineer at Cloud ClinIQ, a cloud-based patient management system that brings patient records, scheduling, payments and AI-assisted notes together in one secure platform for clinics. I build the full stack with Django REST and Vue 3, the customer-facing data API in Kotlin Ktor, and run the AWS infrastructure with Terraform and CI/CD.

  • Django REST
  • Vue 3
  • Kotlin Ktor
  • Java
  • Terraform
  • AWS
Architecture: Dagster orchestrates extraction from sources into Azure storage, DuckDB transforms the data, and Power BI serves the reports. ONGOINGDagsterorchestration · scheduling · lineageAZURESourcesAPIs · databases · filesextractAzure Storagedata lake · parquetstoreDuckDBSCD · history · modeltransformPower BIdashboards · reportsserve lean by design · batch pipelines · pay only for what runs
Data Platform · Ongoing

Small-Scale Data Platform at anonymous company (for now)

An ongoing build of a lean, cost-efficient data platform. Dagster orchestrates every step and Azure provides storage and compute. DuckDB does all the heavy lifting: every transformation, plus historisation, slowly changing dimensions, a current layer, and the data model that loads straight into Power BI.

  • Dagster
  • DuckDB
  • Azure
  • Power BI
  • Python
Before going freelance

Where I built my foundations

Aug 2021 – Nov 2024

Heineken Netherlands

Data Platform Engineer

Part of the data platform (DevOps) team, responsible for the technical frameworks used to ingest, transform and expose data in the lakehouse. Took the lead in bringing ML models to production, designed and implemented the DevOps and CI/CD processes, and shipped a Databricks sandbox environment for data scientists.

  • Python
  • Databricks / PySpark
  • SQL
  • PowerShell
  • Azure
  • Azure Data Factory
Dec 2018 – Jul 2021

Dutch Ministry of Finance

Data Engineer

Development and deployment of machine learning algorithms to reduce tax fraud, with an additional role as solution architect providing consultation on machine learning solutions and data modelling.

  • SAS
  • Python
  • SQL
03.

Beyond the Code

Pope Battle, one of my animated pixel-art sprites

Pixel Art

I love creating pixel art (even though I am not good yet!). I wish to launch a pixel art game of my own, called "The tower of Terror". Here is one of my animated sprites!

  • Sprites
  • Animation
  • Game dev

Running

5km, 10km, half marathon and full marathon. The most beautiful race I have completed was a temple half marathon in Karuizawa in Japan! Afterwards taking a soak at the local hotspring/onsen was pure bliss

  • Sprint
  • 5 km

Cooking

I love food and cooking for friends, especially Asian food!

  • Home cook
  • Food

Learning Languages

When I am completely fed up with programming languages, I like to learn natural ones :)

  • Mandarin
  • Japanese
  • Polish
04.

Languages

Code is not the only language I speak. Picking up new ones is one of my favourite ways to get to know people and places.

  • DutchMother tongue
  • EnglishFluent
  • MandarinAdvanced
    HSK 5 · Nanjing University
  • JapaneseBeginner
  • PolishBeginner
05.

Get In Touch

Let's build something together.

Have a project in mind or want to discuss how I can help your business? I'm currently available for freelance work and always open to interesting opportunities.