Industrial designer turning engineering into objects people want to use.
Industrial Design Engineer with a multidisciplinary background in product engineering, computational design, venture building, and technical team operations — drawn to ambiguous problems where engineering constraints, human needs and emerging technology intersect.
Education
- CurrentMSc Integrated Product DesignTU Delft, Netherlands · Graduation: July 2027
- 2021 — 2024BSc Industrial Design EngineeringTU Delft, Netherlands · InHolland Scholarship · Graduation project: 9.0/10
- Fall 2023Minor Industrial Design + Computer ScienceVirginia Tech, United States · 4/4 GPA
- 2019Pre-U Masterclass Engineering and DesignTU Twente, Netherlands
Experience
- 2024 — nowCo-founder, SKIV FurnitureTwo-person studio transforming existing tables into custom furniture — client brief and interior consultation through design, production and delivery, plus bookkeeping.
- Sep 2024 — Sep 2025Chief Financial Officer, Formula Student Team DelftAcquired €150k+ in cash funding and €250k+ in total partner value after the team's primary sponsor withdrew, delivering the team's strongest partner-acquisition year on record.
- 2021 — 2024Operations & Graphic Designer, Formula Student Team DelftCrafted and supervised the team's branding — clothing, livery design and business cards — and contributed to prize-winning Business Plan Presentations.
- 2022 — 2023Guest Experience Host, LEGO / LEGOLAND Discovery CentreLed hands-on LEGO-building workshops for children, adapting guidance and activities to different ages and abilities.
Selected Projects
- TU Delft Impact Contest · Finalist, Advanced SectionViTe — AI glasses for maintenance augmentationReframed an early-stage AI-glasses concept into a hands-free industrial maintenance platform: bone-conduction audio, remote video and AI-assisted procedural support for field technicians.
- MSc Research Project · TU DelftCommunityControlledAI — AnonymizationBuilt an experimental anonymisation pipeline for an open legal knowledge base — a CLI benchmarking NER, LLM and hybrid anonymisation, and a prototype letting lawyers review AI-generated suggestions, tested with four lawyers.
- Independent Project · Bolt × Half Baked Hackathon · Top 10Trec — Financial management platformRewrote a rapid prototype into a standalone, database-backed web app for student-team budgets, income and expenses, with CSV bank-statement import. Featured by Bolt.new.
Languages
Dutch — native
English — C2, Cambridge Advanced
Tools
- Figma
- Paper
- Industrial Design Drawing
- Solidworks
- Blender
- Gravity Sketch
- Vizcom
- Rhinoceros (Grasshopper)
- Additive manufacturing
- ComfyUI
- Python
- Java
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- Lightroom
- Premiere Pro
- After Effects
- DaVinci Resolve
Interests
- Automotive design
- Photography
- Videography
- Virtual reality
- Display technology
- Computational hardware
- Watches
- Philosophy
- Additive manufacturing