I'm a full-stack software engineer with a strong mathematical background. At the University of Cambridge I'm a hands-on team and tech lead for two development teams, looking after undergraduate admissions and education services, and alongside that I run Diggi Media, building websites and apps for small businesses.
I studied mechanical engineering, which is how I spent five years writing visualisation tools for the aerodynamicists at Aston Martin F1. These days the only things flowing are CI pipelines.
Experience
October 2025 – present
Software Developer Manager at University of Cambridge
University Information Services, DevOps Division
Team and tech lead for the Hopper and Hamilton teams, staying hands-on in the code and the architecture. Hopper builds and runs undergraduate admissions, including My Cambridge Application and Digital Pooling; Hamilton looks after education services such as teaching space scheduling, lab allocation and lecture capture preferences.
July 2024 – November 2025
Senior Software Developer at University of Cambridge
University Information Services, DevOps Division
Developer in the Wilson team, responsible for identity and access management across the University, from account activation to the services and libraries around it.
April 2019 – July 2024
Aston Martin F1
- Senior CFD Software DeveloperApril 2021 – July 2024
- CFD Software DeveloperApril 2019 – April 2021
Silverstone, United Kingdom
Led the development of the aerodynamics department’s post-processing and visualisation software, and designed and built its in-house visualisation tool. Raised the team’s engineering standards, from automated delivery to code quality, and helped grow the developers around me.
March 2017 – March 2019
Software Engineer at Patchman
Enschede, the Netherlands
Worked on internal back-end services and the Django web applications used by staff, customers and their end users. Later also Scrum Master for a small team of developers.
September 2013 – present
Founder and Digital Director at Diggi Media
Enschede, the Netherlands
Websites and mobile apps for small businesses, from WordPress sites to containerised web applications in the cloud.
September 2015 – June 2016
Graduate intern at NLR, Netherlands Aerospace Centre
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Validated NLR's CFD methods for wind turbine flows against the MEXICO wind tunnel experiments, which led to the paper below.
April 2015 – July 2015
Intern at MARIN, Maritime Research Institute Netherlands
Wageningen, the Netherlands
Studied how near-wall grid resolution with wall functions affects RANS predictions of resistance and flow around a KVLCC2 tanker.
February 2011 – December 2014
Web Application Developer at Takeaway.com
Enschede, the Netherlands
Started in customer care and moved into development, proposing and building internal tools that automated much of the data entry and were rolled out across the company.
Education
2013 – 2016
MSc Mechanical Engineering at University of Twente
Specialisation in Engineering Fluid Dynamics.
2009 – 2013
BSc Mechanical Engineering at University of Twente
Minor in Applied Mathematics.
Publication
Wind Turbine Aerodynamics from an Aerospace Perspective
A. van Garrel, S. ten Pas, C. H. Venner, J. van Muijden. AIAA Wind Energy Symposium, 2018.
Skills
- Programming
- Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, PHP, SQL, Bash
- Tools
- Django, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Google Cloud, Cloudflare
- Languages
- Dutch (native), English (full professional)