Delft Solutions

Delft Solutions is a uniquely lean-focused organization that drives a metrics-based approach throughout its operations. In coaching the engineering team, I work to improve the culture and communication within the team and between the team and leadership. 

This is a part-time engagement, Fridays only, focused on a cost-effective approach for the client and building autonomy for the team.

Team Coach

Cubiso

As a freelance EM, I build effective software engineering teams. I can help your company if you have a starting team that needs help building its processes or an existing team that has grown beyond its current capabilities and started slowing down.

Freelance Software Engineering Manager

Ridder

Building the R&D teams at Ridder into a more efficient, more effective organisation, including:
* Day-to-day management of the four software engineering teams within R&D.
* Accelerated the release cycle of the oldest team with extensive legacy from 20 weeks to 2-3 releases per month.
* Delivered Ridder’s first mobile app for climate computing through collaboration in close collaboration with an external design & development agency.
* Guided the teams through a 25% downscaling; removing one underperforming product and merged two separate teams into a single high-performance Scrum team.
* Championed a shift in engineering culture, reducing reliance on leadership for technical & product decisions and inter-team decision making, and encouraged accountability in the teams for quality in delivery rather than relying on validation by stakeholders.
* Improved the software testing approach, resulting in better collaboration within the teams and substantially reduced cycle times.

Engineering Manager (interim)

VCSW

Responsible for VCSW's engineering team, reporting to the COO. Grew the team from 2 to 11 engineers and reorganised into separate product teams, maintaining & developing the VCSW-Digitaal SaaS, and ideating and building the new VCSW Datahub product. 

Some highlights include:
* accelerated release cadence from one release per two weeks to releasing on-demand several times per day;
* created structural knowledge sharing within the team and promoted a culture of continuous learning; 
* secured promotions for several team members and removed underperformers; hired senior technical talent to reinforce a struggling team; 
* coached the junior Product Owner joining the organisation, and coached teams as interim Scrum Master until the role could be filled.

Head of Engineering

IN10 creative digital agency

Responsible for growing the technical & collaboration skills of the engineering team. Worked to improve cross-team collaboration with design & PMO leaders. Acted as the primary point of contact for technical strategy on new customer engagements and set the Research & Development roadmap in consultation with senior management. Member of the business unit leadership team with other team leads. 

In this role, I continued leading customer engagements as a technical lead.

Lead Developer

Worked as a backend developer for several of our largest customers, such as Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Sportbedrijf Rotterdam, NOC*NSF, The Greenery and many more.

Design, building and maintenance of all components of websites and web applications, both in backend and frontend. IN10 used a best-of-breed approach -- which I helped initiate -- primarily using PHP-based setups with Vue.js and React.

Developer

Everest BV

As a software developer, I have contributed to several enterprise projects in Java for the government of the Netherlands, mostly working on an existing portfolio of project based on the Spring framework.

Software Developer

I'm an engineering leader, building effective engineering teams. Through coaching engineers, hiring (and firing), and redesigning processes & methods, I enable teams to unlock higher productivity and create sustained impact on business goals. 

I hold a Masters in Information Systems and in Business Administration and have been a software developer for 8+ years before moving into leadership roles. 

I'm available for short-term and fractional engagements, freelance only for now. See https://www.jakobbuis.nl/work.html for more details.

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