Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

• In 2023, my company IT Leaders joined the Independent Recruiter Group. I'm very proud to be back where my career started in 2008.

Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 · 11 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Grew the team of C++ Software Engineers and Infrastructure Engineers, hired the first FPGA-engineers.

Nov 2019 – Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Helping Adyen to scale the technology department. Added more focus on sourcing, by doing a lot of headhunting myself and helping the broader team with their sourcing. Focus on Senior / Leadership positions

Nov 2018 – Oct 2019 · 11 mos

• Second project at Optiver, with a new challenge: hiring very senior, top-level engineers.

May 2018 – Nov 2018 · 6 mos

• International Recruitment with a focus on senior developers.
• About bol.com:
• With 7 million customers and 15 million unique products bol.com is a textbook example of a big data environment. This environment is developed and maintained by 60 Scrum teams; the corporate-wide drivers behind our innovation and customer satisfaction. Because bol.com ‘breathes’ IT, our IT professionals get every opportunity to grow and distinguish themselves.
• Check out our techlab.bol.com for the newest blogs in IT at bol.com.
• https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/bol-com
• https://www.glassdoor.nl/Overzicht/Werken-bij-Bol-com-EI_IE838762.11,18.htm

May 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Recruiting IT engineers with emphasis on quality of hire. The trading industry is so competitive, a company can only thrive if it has the very best engineers. This formed a very interesting recruitment challenge.
• Since January 2017 I have also lead the technology recruitment team.
• About Technology at Optiver:
• In order to be successful in our trading domain, we constantly need the most advanced technology, trading software and connections to the market. In short, we need the best technologists to develop, optimise and support our systems and tools. With 12 datacenters and thousands of servers we run ten thousands of trading components executing hundred thousands of trades every day. These systems produce a lot of data that needs to be wrangled to turn it into valuable information for different areas of the business.

Jan 2016 – May 2016 · 4 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Recruited IT Chapters Leads. Chapter leads are hands-on coders for 60% of their time and manage a group of developers in the remaining 40%. The ING CIO IT department adopted the Spotify organisation model, with tribes, squads and chapters.

Sep 2015 – Jan 2016 · 4 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Sourcing & Recruiting senior management to VP level positions in EMEA, plus niche positions.
• Working on Employer Branding for the EMEA organisation.

Sep 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Sourcing & recruiting for various positions in the EMEA region.
• Hired various VP's, directors, systems engineers, architects and sales professionals.
• Responsible from intake to offer stage of requisitions.
• Pipelining, talent mapping, Boolean search. Finding & attracting candidates.Doing what ever is needed to attract to right talent.
• Set up EMEA sourcing strategy.

Aug 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 9 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• IT Leaders is a specialized executive search firm with an extensive network of IT Leaders in the Netherlands. With expert sourcing skills and a deep understanding of the local market, we are able to locate and engage with hard-to-reach candidates, ensuring that you have access to the best possible talent pool
• I've filled multiple leadership positions, including:
• CTO, Head of Product, Head of Engineering, Product Director, Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Software Director

Oct 2013 – Sep 2014 · 11 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Searching, sourcing, selecting, hacking, hunting, hiring.
• Scouting across the globe to find and attract the best IT professionals for Booking.com's HQ in Amsterdam. Now looking for web and mobile developers.
• Leading the (IT) sourcing team and set up the sourcing strategy. Hired dozens of scarce professionals in a highly competitive market through pro-active recruitment initiatives. I’m responsible for finding, approaching, screening, interviewing and closing job offers.
• Side-project:
• Set up and monitor a global candidate experience survey

Jan 2013 – Sep 2013 · 8 mos · Hilversum

• Sourced and hired professionals across the globe for Spil Games' Hilversum office. Main focus was IT and e-commerce specialists, mostly scarce, niche professionals like game product marketers, Erlang developer, etc.
• Responsible for the whole recruitment process from finding out what the hiring manager (really) wants, to sourcing, attracting, and screening, to contract negotiation and onboarding.
• Initiated and executed guerilla recruitment strategies like online gaming competitions
• Cut down recruitment expenses by not using any recruitment agencies
• Improved efficiency of referral program

Jul 2008 – Jan 2013 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Recruited IT professionals for several (national and international) clients in the online industry, tech industry, financial services and consulting. Including headhunting / executive search. Specialized in Boolean search / talent sourcing.