Technical leadership for AI-first engineering

Staff engineer shaping AI-native developer platforms for modern banking.

Technical authority with 20+ years of experience across architecture, product, and developer enablement. From high-traffic systems to AI-first engineering workflows, the focus stays consistent: helping teams deliver reliable complex software with speed and precision.

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About me

Influence without authority, delivered through systems.

I specialise in platforms that scale the effectiveness of engineering organisations. At Backbase, that means architecting internal foundations, AI orchestration services, and quality gates that increase output while reducing delivery volatility.

My role often sits between deep technical execution and strategic decision-making: part principal engineer, part product thinker, always focused on practical outcomes teams can feel in their day-to-day delivery.

Technical stack

JavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsPythonOpenAIClaudePromptFooDeepEvalVector DatabasesGitHub Actions

Career journey

From architecture-heavy frontend roots to AI-first engineering leadership.

2023 - Present

Backbase

Amsterdam / Remote

Principal Engineer (Frontend & AI - Developer Enablement)

Architected the AI Judge service that pushed API documentation coverage from 34% to 100%.
Designed RAG-backed support systems and agentic tooling used as internal foundations for AI workflows.
Acts as a formal senior-to-staff technical endorser through evidence-based promotion evaluations.

2020 - 2023

Backbase

Amsterdam / Remote

Product Manager (Web Foundation)

Led the Web Foundation as a product, balancing platform stability with banking business outcomes.
Aligned architecture and priorities across global stakeholders and engineering teams.

2018 - 2020

Backbase

Amsterdam / Remote

Senior Frontend Engineer

Set core frontend architecture patterns that became the blueprint for hundreds of banking squads.

2017 - 2018

ING

Amsterdam

Lead Frontend Developer (Internal Platforms)

Directed migration of card-management tools from internal employee systems to secure customer self-service.

2015 - 2017

Backbase

Amsterdam

Senior Frontend Consultant and Trainer

Created Backbase Academy from scratch to accelerate partner and customer engineering capability.

2010 - 2015

Softonic

Barcelona

Lead Javascript Architect

Introduced testing standards and debt reduction programmes in a high-traffic environment.

Core expertise

Developer Enablement platforms, CLIs, and migration pathways
Agentic AI workflows, RAG systems, and LLM quality evaluation
Architectural governance for secure multi-service banking systems
Cross-team technical leadership through influence without authority

Open source and community

Active contributor to Compodoc for Angular and NestJS documentation tooling.
Creator of Koyote.js and Hydra.js for high-performance web architecture foundations.
Frequent conference speaker on AI-native engineering and frontend architecture.

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Building AI-native engineering at scale.

If you want to discuss platform architecture, AI-assisted SDLC, or leadership models for high-performing engineering organisations, I am open to strategic conversations.

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