Founder & CTO / Staff Software Engineer
📍 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Creator of Eta programming language (2600 GitHub stars). Founded TypeLead (Techstars NYC 2017). Experienced in building high-performance systems in Rust/Go/Java, blockchain protocols, DeFi/Solidity smart contracts, and scalable Kubernetes infrastructure. Currently building VaizardAI, an AI trading platform with a custom DSL compiling to WebAssembly.
Desired role
Smart Contract Engineer, Protocol Engineer, Backend Engineer
Work type
Remote
Location
Anywhere
Salary
EUR 175,000 – 250,000
VaizardAI
Jun 2025 — Present
Built domain-specific language (DSL) for trading strategies in Rust compatible with TradingView PineScript. Designed high-performance backtesting infrastructure on Kubernetes using Redis and Kafka on AWS. Developed agentic AI workflow for trading strategy discovery and validation.
VaizardAI (AI Trading Platform)
Jun 2025 — Present
Built VaizardScript, a DSL for trading strategies in Rust compatible with TradingView's PineScript, compiling to WebAssembly. Designed high-performance backtesting infrastructure in Rust on Kubernetes using Redis and Kafka on AWS. Developed agentic AI workflows to discover and generate trading strategies.
MatchGroup (OkCupid / Archer)
Oct 2021 — Jun 2025
Tech Lead for Recommendations implementing algorithmic changes in C++ and Go improving revenue by 5% for 1M+ DAUs. Led infrastructure design for Archer dating app from 0 to 60k+ DAUs using Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm on AWS with Go/gRPC/Kafka. Migrated observability to self-hosted Grafana stack and optimized AWS costs by $1M+. Setup reproducible developer environment with Docker and Bazel achieving sub-5-min CI/CD.
MatchGroup (OkCupid / Archer)
Oct 2021 — Jun 2025
Tech Lead for Recommendations; implemented algorithmic changes in C++ and Go improving OkCupid revenue by 5% with 1M+ DAUs. Led infrastructure for Archer from 0 to 60k+ DAUs using Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Go, gRPC, Kafka, and Redis. Migrated observability to self-hosted Grafana stack saving $1M+. Set up reproducible dev environment with Docker and Bazel for fast CI/CD.
Symbiont.io
Jul 2019 — Oct 2021
Protocol Engineer improving blockchain protocol through parallel transaction decryption and execution. Implemented extensive property-based testing in Haskell validating backwards-compatibility across 10 protocol versions. Achieved 30k+ financial transactions/hour throughput on BFT-consensus blockchain.
Symbiont.io (Enterprise Blockchain Platform)
Jul 2019 — Oct 2021
Protocol Engineer improving BFT-consensus blockchain throughput to 30k+ financial transactions/hour via parallel transaction execution in Haskell. Added property-based testing to validate backwards-compatibility across 10 protocol versions for financial institution SLAs.
TypeLead (Creators of Eta Programming Language)
May 2016 — Jun 2019
Created and implemented the Eta compiler (statically-typed functional language targeting JVM) in Haskell. Built high-performance runtime system in Java including lazy evaluation, STM, async exceptions, lock-free data structures, and off-heap memory management. Techstars NYC 2017 company.
TypeLead
May 2016 — Jun 2019
Created and implemented Eta programming language compiler targeting JVM in Haskell. Implemented high-performance runtime system with lazy evaluation, Software Transaction Memory, asynchronous exceptions, lock-free concurrent data structures, and off-heap memory management. Achieved 2600+ GitHub stars and 60 contributors.
Bachelor of Technology · Mathematics & Computing
2013 – 2016