About

I'm Stijn. I lead Internal Platforms at Aiven, which means data platform and enterprise IT for a company of about 400 people. I've been here five and a half years. Started as a data engineer building a warehouse from scratch, ended up managing the team, then the scope grew.

Day to day I think about how to make a company work better. Through data, systems, automation, process changes. AI is accelerating all of it, but the hard part was never the tools. It's figuring out what to actually change.

I started writing because the world is moving fast and nobody is writing the "so what." LinkedIn is full of new tools and hype, but I can't find enough people writing about what it actually means for their team.

The posts cover data systems, how teams are organized around them, and what happens to careers when AI changes both.

If you want to get in touch, I'm at [email protected] or on LinkedIn. I read everything.