The project started as the first IT project at the FIOD. Ron has build software to reduce the manual processing of data. Making sure there is a scalable application that can be used to combat financial fraud. His responsibility was to find the best architecture for the application, help building a CI/CD pipeline and above all implement a Neo4j graph model to investigate financial fraud.

• Client: FIOD
• Date: Januari 2018 - September 2019
• Service: Neo4j, Data Engineering

In this project, the main assignment for Ron was to migrate the on-premise Hadoop cluster to the Google Cloud. The cluster was used to collect clickstream data from the NPO streaming platform. Collecting live data from video, radio and television streams. Based on the collected data we trained a recommendation engine to give a personal recommendation for the users of the platform.

• Client: NPO
• Date: April 2014
• Service: Data Engineer, Google Cloud

As one of the first team members Ron was responsible for the setup of a Hadoop cluster of 240 nodes. We were able to start loading the raw data after a few weeks while in the meantime extending the cluster with more and more components. Ron helped a team working on a fluid criminal network analysis using his knowledge about graph technology.

• Client: Dutch Police
• Date: May 2015
• Service: Data Engineer, Graph expert

During this project, Ron did a lot of different proof of concepts to find where the bank could benefit from a Big Data solution. Together with people from the business, we investigated several domains and techniques for Natural Language Processing, fraud, privacy and many more.

• Client: Rabobank
• Date: April 2014
• Service: Hadoop, Data Engineer

Together with a team of 18 software engineers, Ron build a new frontend application and REST-API on top of the existing Securities (Beleggen in Dutch) application. In this project, Ron was the technical team lead of one of the teams and ScrumMaster to coordinate building the application on a team of this size.

• Client: ING
• Date: October 2012
• Service: Web Development

Ron worked on several projects during this period. Most projects had a goal in integration between Chamber of Commerce and other government entities. The most important project involved building a graph database containing the complete registry with history. This is where Ron fell in love with Neo4j.

• Client: Chamber of Commerce
• Date: October 2010 - October 2012
• Service: Backend developer, Neo4j