I build things,
break things,
and write about
what survives.
Chief Developer Advisor at Microsoft. Creator of Agentile.
30+ years of engineering, strategy, and strong opinions.
I help engineering leaders navigate the shift to human–agent collaboration — so your org moves at the speed of your tools, not the speed of your approval chain.
Amsterdam, NL · She/Her · 🏂
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I sit at the intersection of engineering depth and executive clarity. I help organizations make confident decisions about platforms, AI adoption, and the future of how software gets built — by people and by machines.
30 years in the trenches across government, telecom, financial services, ISVs, and security. Founded Great Success for interim IT leadership. Created the Agentile operating model because agile assumed all work is done by humans — and that assumption broke.
Developer Productivity · Platform Engineering · AI Adoption · Multi-Agent Orchestration
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Strong opinions, working code.
Speaking & Keynotes
Conferences, leadership offsites, engineering teams. I talk about what happens when AI stops being a tool and starts being a teammate — and what your org needs to survive that shift.
Technical Advisory
I advise CTOs and engineering leaders on AI adoption, developer experience, and platform engineering strategy. Not slideware — real decisions with real trade-offs.
Building Things
From murder mystery games with lying AI agents to platform engineering frameworks — I ship code, not just opinions. If it can be built, I've probably tried.
Writing & Thought Leadership
The Engineering Beyond Agile series. The Agentile operating model. Eight articles. One question: if humans can't be in every loop, what structure does speed need?
> talks
I talk about this stuff too.
Available for conferences, keynotes, leadership offsites, and engineering teams. Real-world stories. Zero hand-waving.
Speaker kit →The Decision-Speed Gap
Keynote / SessionWhy Your Agent System Works But Your Organisation Doesn't
Code is merged and deployed by agents in the middle of the night. The decision about what to build still takes three meetings and a Slack thread.
9 Suspects, 0 Scripts
SessionWhat a Murder Mystery Taught Me About Multi-Agent Orchestration
I built a murder mystery game where the suspects lie to you. Real-time, motivated, adaptive deception from nine concurrent AI agents. Every playthrough is different because nobody is following a script.
Platform Engineering When Software Doesn't Wait
SessionThe Platform as the Foundation for AI Transformation
Translating decisions and best practices into instructions for AI agents. This changes the responsibility of platform teams, the toolset, and how they operate.
Codifying Trade-offs
SessionSecurity, Cost, and Compliance as Agent Guardrails
Every agent demo ends the same way: the agent does the thing, the audience claps, nobody asks what happened to the security review.
The Org Chart Won't Save You
Keynote / SessionOperating Models for Teams Where AI Does Real Work
Agile assumed all work is done by humans. Sprints, standups, retros — every ceremony was designed around the pace of people coordinating with other people. That assumption held for twenty years. It doesn't hold anymore.
From Brainstorming to Release
Session / WorkshopEnd-to-End with M365, Azure and GitHub Copilot
Up to 60% of engineering time is spent on non-coding tasks. Let's fix that with AI across the full development lifecycle.
> writing
Engineering Beyond Agile
Eight articles. One question: if humans can no longer be in every loop, what structure does speed need?
Speed With a Spine
Introducing the ISEE Framework
Human Judgment in a System That Never Slows Down
The System That Decides While You Sleep
The Platform Becomes the Adult in the Room
How Agentile impacts Platform Engineering
Codifying Trade‑offs
Security, Cost, and Capacity in Agentile Teams
When Teams Become Cells
How Context Replaces Coordination
When Decisions Move Upstream
Decisions carry intent, trade-offs, and power
Do We Still Need a PM?
Will the PM job be eaten for breakfast by AI?
AI and the Rise of Agentile Teams
AI maturity is forcing a structural rethink
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I ship code, not just opinions.
Open source contributions, side projects, and things I built because I wanted to see if they'd work.
Platform engineering framework for the agentic age. Deploy Azure resources through guided workflows with AI-assisted infrastructure.
GitHub Copilot extension for Azure — bringing cloud infrastructure into the developer flow.
A 2D AI-powered detective game where every NPC is an independent AI agent. Built with Phaser 3, Express, and the GitHub Copilot SDK.
Enterprise context setup wizard for GitHub Copilot. Scans your project, discovers MCP servers, and generates Copilot instructions — aligned to the ISEE framework.