I am a Senior Data and AI Engineer with 10 years of experience building data platforms for enterprise environments. Based in the Netherlands, I work daily with Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, DuckDB, dbt, and Python — the tools that power modern data engineering at scale.

Over the last two years I have moved into AI engineering, designing agentic systems and LLM-powered pipelines that sit on top of data infrastructure. I do not just follow the field. I build in it.

I write Urban Data Engineers, a weekly newsletter on Substack for data and AI practitioners. Writing it has sharpened how I explain complex technical concepts: clearly, without jargon, always from the perspective of someone who has actually tried the thing they are teaching.

I believe the best technical instruction comes from practitioners, not theorists. Every course I build starts with something I have built, broken, and fixed myself. My students get the real version, including what does not work and why