About

Growing up in a music store, I developed an early love for both technology and sound. Now I'm a software engineer at Spotify, which feels like a natural fit. I have a PhD in radio astronomy and a master's degree in AI, with experience spanning scientific computing, machine learning, industrial systems, and large-scale infrastructure. For over a decade I worked as a freelance engineer through Pythonic, building data reduction pipelines for radio telescopes like LOFAR and SKA, optimizing electricity grids with deep reinforcement learning, and contributing to open source. These days I work on Spotify's edge and service mesh infrastructure, keeping things running at scale. Amsterdam is home, but I'm often in Windhoek and Cape Town. In my spare time I brew beer, make electronic music, and build things with AI.