From Big Tech to Building My Own
After more than two decades in software engineering, including seven years at Amazon in Silicon Valley, I returned home to the Netherlands with a new mission: to build software that matters. SynapSys Software is the result of that journey.
An unusual mix
My background is broader than most: alongside consumer software at big-tech scale, I have spent years on the factory side of hardware, from shop-floor control for Amazon's display manufacturing line in Eindhoven to the wafer-data systems of Philips Semiconductors. That mix of consumer polish on one side and industrial rigor on the other shapes everything I build.
Experience, amplified by AI
Today I work from a continuously evolving balance between 20+ years of engineering experience and the productivity that modern AI tooling unlocks. Experience decides what is worth building and what good looks like; AI shrinks the distance between idea and product.
The road here
20+ yearsBuilding Dassh with two co-founders: taking companies from idea to working software in weeks, not months. As the engineer of the founding team, I own technical direction, architecture, and a backend built to scale.
Started as my independent practice for client work in planning and automation. Today client work runs through Dassh, and SynapSys is where I build apps, games and educational software: GeoChopper and Shuvvle, both live in the app stores.
Seven years of software engineering at Amazon's consumer-hardware division in Silicon Valley, the home of Kindle, Echo and Fire.
Built the database and shop-floor control software behind the manufacturing line of Amazon's electrowetting display technology.
Led the ITIX platform from the first database design to a live web application, and modernized the software department's way of working along the way.
Built MapWareHouse for Philips Semiconductors, now NXP: the system that exchanged wafer test results between test and assembly factories.
