Amsterdam, Netherlands Adyen 11+ yrs engineering · 3+ yrs leading
An engineering leader who builds scalable platforms and high-performing teams in FinTech & Payments.
11+ years building mission-critical payment systems at global scale — from compliance and risk infrastructure at Zettle by PayPal to in-person payments at Adyen. Track record of scaling platforms 50x, hiring and growing high-performing teams, and establishing org-wide engineering culture and standards. Focused on aligning technical strategy with business outcomes and scaling engineering organizations across FinTech & Payments.
Currently focused on building engineering teams and processes that can sustain 10x growth — from hiring frameworks to technical career ladders that develop the next generation of engineering leaders.
Senior Engineer
Engineering Manager · promoted within 8 months
Lead the IPP Scalability team, owning the platform strategy that scaled Adyen's In-Person Payments platform 50x — enabling 1M+ concurrent connections with sub-100ms latency across millions of devices globally.
Hire, develop and retain talent — structured mentorship, clear career frameworks and performance management that grew engineers into senior technical contributors.
Drive cross-functional strategy across product, commercial and partner stakeholders — aligning engineering roadmaps with business outcomes and quarterly OKRs.
Define org-wide engineering standards — ways of working and technical quality benchmarks adopted across multiple teams.
Led cross-org compliance migration — coordinating legal, product and engineering to move millions of merchants under European regulatory and banking licence changes.
Owned the KYC/KYB risk platform end-to-end — scoping requirements with stakeholders, designing the systems and driving execution across multiple team boundaries.
Mentored junior engineers and drove architectural decision-making for the compliance domain, establishing patterns adopted by adjacent teams.
Software Engineer 2
Senior Software Engineer · promoted within a year
Led design and delivery of a customer data platform processing millions of real-time events on Java, Kafka and Cassandra — driving cross-team alignment on a unified architecture that powered personalization across the product.
Drove org-wide data strategy — built ETL pipelines processing tens of millions of events, enabling executive reporting and data-driven prioritization.
Mentored engineers across teams, led architecture reviews and established technical decision-making practices that improved delivery predictability.
Owned the end-to-end ML pipeline for product ranking — from problem framing through production deployment — improving discovery metrics across high-traffic e-commerce.
Built scalable user-generated content platforms and APIs serving 5K+ TPS with p99 latency under 10ms.
Designed and implemented an NLP system to detect disorder mentions in clinical patient records, combining supervised and unsupervised methods to advance automated clinical text analysis.