Experience

Lecturer IT, Higher Professional Education (HBO)

University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam

  • Shared responsibility within a teaching team for over 80 first-year students in the Business and IT Management programme
  • Proactively took on tasks, aligning with team members and adapting to evolving needs
  • Quickly mastered new curriculum content
  • Assessed open-ended assignments and provided constructive feedback
  • Facilitated classroom learning by encouraging critical thinking and peer feedback

Software developer (cross-functional role)

Impact Institute

  • Developed APIs and libraries supporting complex impact calculations, balancing technical constraints, user needs, and methodological correctness
  • Led a major system redesign involving databases, APIs, and front-end, improving consistency and ease of us
  • Improved development workflows using automated testing and deployment pipelines
  • Collaborated with Product Owner to clarify requirements and create a structured and prioritized backlog in an Agile environment
  • Improved UI/UX design of complex calculation results to enhance clarity and usability
  • Supported internal and external users through documentation
  • Independently explored new technologies, such as telemetry instrumentation
  • Contributed to the company's Inclusivity Committee, supporting initiatives to promote a diverse and inclusive working environment

Teaching Assistant

University of Birmingham (UK), University of Amsterdam

  • Helped students understand their course material in the classroom
  • Mastered the content of the first-year course programming in python

Mathematic and Physics tutor

various

  • Helped students with school work one-on-one
  • Delivered training to classrooms to prepare students for their exams

Education

Postgraduate Research in Astrophysics (Phd)

University of Birmingham (UK)

  • Researched data analysis methods for Pulsar Timing Arrays, in the search for gravitational waves from supermassive black holes
  • Developed python code and employed high performance computing clusters
  • Published papers and presented my work to the scientific community

Astronomy and Astrophysics (BSc, MSc)

University of Amsterdam