{ "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json", "basics": { "name": "Conrad Bartels Daal", "label": "Principal Software Engineer & Solution Architect | AI Engineering", "email": "conrad@pacoradius.com", "url": "https://conradbartelsdaal.com", "summary": "Builder, architect, and technical leader with 15+ years taking software from a blank repository to production — hands-on as an engineer, in charge as a Tech Lead and CTO, and end-to-end as a three-time founder. For the past three years focused on AI engineering: AI-assisted delivery workflows, local and cloud LLMs in production, and custom agentic tooling. Open to AI architecture and technical-leadership roles.", "location": { "city": "Amstelveen", "countryCode": "NL", "region": "North Holland" }, "profiles": [ { "network": "LinkedIn", "username": "conradbartelsdaal", "url": "https://linkedin.com/in/conradbartelsdaal" } ] }, "work": [ { "name": "UWV (via FreshMinds)", "position": "Tech Lead & Backend Developer", "startDate": "2025-07", "location": "Amsterdam, Netherlands", "summary": "Dutch government digital-transformation programme rebuilding the legacy dagloon (daily-wage) calculator into a containerised architecture on OpenShift. Progressed from backend developer to Tech Lead for one of two delivery teams.", "highlights": [ "Drove team architecture and tooling decisions; coordinated cross-team technical alignment", "Architected and helped build the core dagloon calculation API in .NET on OpenShift", "Built the GitOps deployment foundation (Kustomize, ArgoCD, Kubernetes) adopted by all applications across every environment" ] }, { "name": "Stater (via FreshMinds)", "position": "Senior Software Engineer", "startDate": "2024-09", "endDate": "2025-05", "location": "Amsterdam, Netherlands", "summary": "Platform Integration Team at the largest mortgage servicer in the Netherlands (€300B+ in mortgages).", "highlights": [ "Built and maintained C#/ASP.NET integration microservices in a Kubernetes environment", "Established consistent unit and integration testing practices; mentored junior developers", "Implemented Grafana/Helm observability and improved Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines" ] }, { "name": "BCS HR Software (via FreshMinds)", "position": "Senior Software Engineer", "startDate": "2024-02", "endDate": "2024-08", "location": "Netherlands", "summary": "Platform modernisation of an established Dutch HR & payroll SaaS (~3,000 customers).", "highlights": [ "Led migration from legacy identity provider: OAuth 2 for the webapp, JWT for the API", "Built Docker-based local development environment, significantly reducing developer onboarding friction", "Produced a phased refactoring roadmap and led knowledge-sharing with offshore teams" ] }, { "name": "Pacoradius", "position": "Founder & Principal IT Consultant", "startDate": "2022-12", "location": "Amstelveen, Netherlands", "summary": "Independent consultancy for solution architecture, fractional CTO services, and end-to-end software development — operated alongside contract engagements.", "highlights": [ "Architected and built a car-rental SaaS platform solo: multi-account AWS in Terraform, Next.js/NestJS/PostgreSQL", "Built a training & certification platform MVP solo, live in production, delivered end-to-end with Claude Code and Cursor", "Built Paco Money: personal-finance product combining on-device Ollama LLM inference with OpenAI and Anthropic API integrations" ] }, { "name": "Overstappen.nl", "position": "Chief Technology Officer", "startDate": "2020-02", "endDate": "2022-06", "location": "Netherlands", "summary": "Led all technology strategy and delivery for a leading Dutch insurance comparison platform serving hundreds of thousands of customers annually across six web applications.", "highlights": [ "Scaled engineering from 5 to 20 developers across three countries within 15 months", "Architected a new Next.js/React/AWS platform; migrated three on-premises applications to multi-account AWS", "Cut release time in half through DevOps process and pipeline optimisation" ] }, { "name": "Deloitte Nederland", "position": "Manager – Software Developer", "startDate": "2018-09", "endDate": "2020-01", "location": "Netherlands", "summary": "Digital@Deloitte group focused on Mobile, Web, Cloud, and Employee Experience for 6,000+ employees.", "highlights": [ "Led design and development of a self-service Azure infrastructure-automation platform used across all European member firms", "Implemented Infrastructure as Code practices used as the foundation for all infrastructure deployments across Europe" ] }, { "name": "M-Wise", "position": "Product Manager", "startDate": "2017-01", "endDate": "2018-08", "location": "Netherlands", "summary": "Led a product team of 6+ designing and building an event-driven microservices SaaS loyalty platform.", "highlights": [ "Cut new-client onboarding time by ~75%", "Coordinated with an external law firm to secure €150K+ in WBSO R&D tax benefit" ] }, { "name": "M-Wise", "position": "Senior Software Engineer", "startDate": "2016-07", "endDate": "2018-08", "location": "Netherlands", "summary": "Dual technical leadership and product role on M-Wise's flagship event-driven distributed microservices SaaS platform.", "highlights": [ "Built and led a new product team from the ground up", "Implemented test automation across all stages: unit, integration, and load testing" ] }, { "name": "Butiqs", "position": "Lead Developer", "startDate": "2015-07", "endDate": "2016-06", "location": "Netherlands", "summary": "Led end-to-end design and development of iOS/Android mobile and iPad in-store applications, from conception through App Store and Google Play launch.", "highlights": [ "Created a VIPER architecture-based mobile framework enabling reusable module development", "Product won the Oracle Retail Shopper Marketing Award 2017 (Smart Innovations) after launch" ] }, { "name": "Proxible", "position": "Co-Founder & Lead Mobile Developer", "startDate": "2013-02", "endDate": "2015-07", "location": "Eindhoven, Netherlands", "summary": "Co-founded a proximity-technology company at High Tech Campus Eindhoven; led all technical delivery.", "highlights": [ "Led design and development of five mobile applications for retail, healthcare, and loyalty clients", "Built a Bluetooth sensor SDK for iOS, Android, and Xamarin, adopted by three partner applications", "Finalist, Startupbootcamp HighTechXL 2013" ] }, { "name": "Movative", "position": "Founder", "startDate": "2013-02", "endDate": "2015-06", "location": "Netherlands / Aruba", "summary": "Founded a mobile technology consultancy.", "highlights": [ "Pitched, closed, and delivered a news app (iOS and Android) for the #1 news media company in Aruba" ] }, { "name": "Touchwonders", "position": "iOS Developer", "startDate": "2012-09", "endDate": "2013-03", "location": "Netherlands", "summary": "Developed iPhone and iPad applications for clients in banking, retail, and weather forecasting." }, { "name": "Yucat Mobile Business Solutions", "position": "Mobile Developer", "startDate": "2010-02", "endDate": "2012-08", "location": "Netherlands", "summary": "Led design and implementation of an iPad application for building inspection and reporting for the public sector.", "highlights": [ "Built an interactive PDF viewer/editor with touch-gesture annotations, dramatically reducing inspection reporting time" ] } ], "education": [ { "institution": "Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen", "area": "Information and Communication Technology", "studyType": "Bachelor", "startDate": "2006", "endDate": "2010" } ], "awards": [ { "title": "Oracle Retail Shopper Marketing Award 2017 (Smart Innovations)", "date": "2017", "awarder": "Oracle Retail", "summary": "Awarded to the Butiqs retail product after launch, for its design and functionality." } ], "skills": [ { "name": "AI engineering", "keywords": ["Claude Code", "Cursor", "GitHub Copilot", "Ollama", "LM Studio", "OpenAI API", "Anthropic API", "Agentic workflows", "Prompt engineering", "Local-vs-cloud model selection"] }, { "name": "Backend", "keywords": ["C#", ".NET", "ASP.NET", "Node.js", "NestJS", "Microservices", "REST", "GraphQL", "CQRS", "Entity Framework"] }, { "name": "Frontend", "keywords": ["TypeScript", "React", "Next.js", "Angular", "Tailwind CSS", "Storybook", "TurboRepo"] }, { "name": "Cloud & DevOps", "keywords": ["AWS", "Azure", "Kubernetes", "OpenShift", "Terraform", "ArgoCD", "Kustomize", "GitOps", "Azure DevOps", "GitHub Actions", "Helm", "Grafana", "SonarQube", "CI/CD"] }, { "name": "Mobile", "keywords": ["iOS", "Android", "Swift", "Kotlin", "Objective-C", "Xamarin"] }, { "name": "Data & messaging", "keywords": ["SQL Server", "PostgreSQL", "MySQL", "MongoDB", "Azure Cosmos DB", "Redis", "RabbitMQ", "Azure Service Bus"] }, { "name": "Architecture & leadership", "keywords": ["Solution architecture", "Clean Architecture", "DDD", "SOLID", "Event-driven design", "TDD", "Tech Lead", "Fractional CTO", "Hiring & mentoring", "Agile/Scrum"] } ], "languages": [ { "language": "Dutch", "fluency": "Native speaker" }, { "language": "English", "fluency": "Native / bilingual" }, { "language": "Papiamento", "fluency": "Native speaker" }, { "language": "Spanish", "fluency": "Basic" }, { "language": "Portuguese", "fluency": "Basic" } ], "projects": [ { "name": "Paco Money", "description": "Self-funded personal-finance product combining on-device Ollama LLM inference for budget analysis with OpenAI and Anthropic API integrations.", "startDate": "2024", "roles": ["Founder", "Architect", "Engineer"] }, { "name": "Training & certification platform", "description": "Full MVP architected and built solo (Next.js, Supabase, GitHub Actions), live in staging and production; 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