About Me
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- Sales Engineer with 20+ years experience in the software industry
- Meetup Organizer
- Community Builder
- Conference Speaker
Sales experience
- Intimate knowledge of the financial industry
- Built tech champions at several organizations
- Knows how to sell open source software
Industry experience
- Worked with large banks in the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria
- 3 years as an employee in ING Domestic Banking
Technology experience
- Big Data Stack - Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Spark
- Event Streaming - NiFi, Kafka, Druid
- Security and Governance, particulary with open source products
- Digital Analytics, OmniChannel, Customer 360
Speaker experience
- Apache Big Data 2015 (slides)
- Strata EU 2016 and 2017
- Hadoop Summit 2015 (slides) and 2016 (video)
- Continuous Lifecycle London 2016 (slides)
- OSAD 2019, Munich (video)
- TDWI 2023, Munich (link to conference agenda)
- Big Data Europe 2023, Vilnius (slides, video)
- DevDays Europe 2024, Vilnius (slides)
- Berlin Buzzwords 2024 (slides, video)