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Experience translated into practical relevance

These project stories show the kinds of technical, operational, and adoption challenges behind the work. Company names are kept private; the outcomes are real.

Engineering AI adoption, end to end

Context

An engineering team was experimenting with AI tools without coordination, and a manufacturing support function had critical knowledge trapped in a few specialists' heads.

Contribution

Introduced AI-assisted development across the team — running internal craft days and playback sessions — and separately designed a knowledge-capture process that fed an integrated service-desk AI agent, from structured interviews through to a working retrieval pipeline.

Why it matters

Useful for organizations that want AI adoption to become a responsible daily practice with measurable delivery impact, not an isolated experiment.

Operational self-service portal

Context

Business users depended on developers for routine configuration changes, creating constant interruptions and a bottleneck on delivery capacity.

Contribution

Helped create a self-service back-office portal that gave operational users direct control within clear system boundaries, covered by integration tests — freeing significant developer capacity over time.

Why it matters

Relevant when a workflow needs to reduce handoffs while preserving reliability and appropriate control.

Manufacturing systems and integrations

Context

Business-critical factory operations depended on dependable automation and connections with external carrier systems.

Contribution

Led vendor selection and a third-party carrier integration, migrating shipping operations off legacy systems with zero downtime — factories continued producing and shipping orders throughout.

Why it matters

Relevant when a proposed AI or automation capability must coexist with established systems and consequential operations.

Regulated and compliance-sensitive systems

Context

Financial, payment, and energy-sector environments required technical change to respect strong operational and compliance constraints.

Contribution

Rewrote a payment engine in a regulated financial domain — cutting processing issues by 95% — and later architected integrations in the regulated Dutch energy sector, where traceability and correctness mattered.

Why it matters

Relevant for businesses that need innovation without treating security, quality, and governance as afterthoughts.

Selected career context

  • 20+ years designing and delivering software systems
  • Experience across AWS, Azure, .NET, React, manufacturing, energy, and financial contexts
  • Zero-downtime migrations, a 95% reduction in payment issues, measurable AI-driven cycle-time gains
  • A consistent focus on connecting business needs, technical choices, and team capability

Colleague feedback

What the people I have worked with say

Feedback from leaders, peers, and people I have led across 20 years of engineering and architecture.

“His passion for innovation, particularly in AI, is truly remarkable. He shared his learnings and generated excitement about its potential across the team. His efforts directly contributed to increased engineer satisfaction and measurable reductions in team cycle time.”

Alex Hibbitt Senior Director, Engineering — Customer Platform Storio Group

“A rare ability to digest complex technical content on the spot and summarize it into clear, actionable next steps. He consistently takes the initiative to improve workflows — including the opportunities AI brings. Calm in nature, transparent in his communication, and incredibly reliable.”

Remco Beekhuizen Head of PMO & Digital Manufacturing Storio Group

“A remarkable ability to bring structure to highly ambiguous environments. He excels at designing robust architectures even with vague requirements, and has a talent for translating complex technical strategies into clear, actionable plans for stakeholders.”

Oleh Pashyn QA Engineer Cosi Consulting

“Michael excels at bridge-building between complex engineering problems and business strategy. A diligent, data-driven decision maker who never settles for surface-level answers, with a unique ability to peel back the layers of a problem until the root cause is found.”

Martijn Mol Solution Architect Albumprinter

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