📍 Rotterdam 🇳🇱 | 🤖 AI builder & advisor | 💼 Founder of Lurn Digital

Forward deployed engineer for generative AI. After 10 years at Deloitte — managing teams of up to 10, closing €500K deals, and growing a global strategic account 17% YoY — I went independent to ship the thing instead of just advising on it. Currently the strategic AI advisor to a Fortune 50 VP Tax, one line from the Global CFO: I architect the systems, coach the new global head of tax technology, upskill the IT delivery teams, and influence enterprise architects and the GenAI Triage Board. 24+ agents in production for ~800 users, scaling to 15,000.

🌍 lurn.digital — my practice. I help teams move from "we should try AI" to "it runs in production and the audit team signed off."

• 🎤 Multi-Company AI Round Table, The Hague (Mar 2026) — keynote on enterprise AI to ASML, KLM, Philips, Heineken, Rituals, Booking.com, Ahold, and others.
• 🏨 Booking.com Knowledge-Share, Amsterdam (Mar 2026) — lead presenter on tax AI and IBFD integration; Booking sought out the engagement.
• 🏛️ NL-Brazil Tech Delegation, Web Summit Rio (Apr 2024) — RVO government delegation; spoke on AI's impact on industry.
• 🧾 Fortune 50 energy major (Nov 2024 – present) — strategic AI advisor to the VP Tax (one line from Global CFO). Architected a 24-agent AI platform on Microsoft Foundry (incl. Claude models) for ~800 tax staff, now scaling to 15,000 Finance users. Coach and wingman to the new global head of tax technology. Upskill IT AI delivery teams on building governed AI systems. Authored the app-ownership control framework adopted as a reference model by adjacent departments. ~€7M projected savings across the business-case portfolio. Authored Generative AI in Tax Authorities, 2023–2025 research paper.
• 🏢 Deloitte (Oct 2014 – Sep 2024, 10 years) — Manager, Technology Consulting. Managed teams of up to 10. Grew a global strategic account 17% YoY (€500K largest deal). GenAI Taskforce lead for North & South Europe. 2,500+ training-seat engagements across multinational L&D programmes. Ran hiring panels for consultants. Deloitte Talent Award for Leadership (2017).
• 🎓 TechLabs Rotterdam — board member & AI track lead, ~100 students/year. Built curriculum, ran hiring for track leads.
• 🇪🇺 European Commission — Pact for Skills Ambassador (Dec 2020 – present) — skills development for the EU workforce.
• 🤖 Agentics Foundation — Independent Contributor (Mar 2024 – present) — democratising agentic AI education globally.

• 🏗️ onetax-multi-agent-platform — Federated system of 32 AI agents and 7 workflows on Azure AI Foundry, orchestrating enterprise tax requests with governance and human-in-the-loop approval.
• 🔗 opentp-transfer-pricing-graphrag + graphrag-knowledge-graph-workbench — Open-source transfer pricing digital twin across 20 jurisdictions indexed into a GraphRAG knowledge graph, with interactive 3D visualization (Next.js + Three.js).
• 🔬 tax-deep-research-api — Azure AI Foundry agent using o3-deep-research with Bing grounding, deployed as an SSE streaming REST API bridging frontier AI into M365 Copilot.
• 🧠 tax-enterprise-research-agent — Enterprise-grade .NET 9 research agent combining deep research, Bing grounding, and Microsoft Graph for internal document search.
• 📚 ibfd-tax-copilot-connector — Copilot connector ingesting IBFD international tax documents into Microsoft Graph for semantic search within M365 Copilot.
• 🏰 tax-scenario-platform-vision — Five-layer computational model for multinational tax scenarios using Databricks, Neo4j, Temporal, and Linkurious.
• 🇳🇱 dutch-income-tax-2025 — Automated Dutch income tax prep with bank transaction analysis, Moneybird API integration, and classification for IB-aangifte filing.
• 🔍 tax-search-poc — Multi-jurisdiction tax document search platform (BE/ES/DE) with vector embeddings, hybrid search, and 1,100+ indexed documents. FastAPI + pgvector, sub-100ms response times.
• 📖 dutch-accounting-skills — Claude Code skills covering 10 areas of Dutch accounting, tax, payroll, and financial reporting with inline law citations and 2026 rates.

• 📄 vasim-events-pdf-quote-pipeline + rentman-canva — End-to-end Azure Functions pipeline: Rentman webhook → data extraction → Nunjucks/Canva templating → WeasyPrint PDF → SharePoint → Power Automate delivery.
• ⚡ vasim-events-admin-automation — Power Automate workflow automating event administration: Teams channels, SharePoint folders, and status updates on event confirmation.

• 🔌 m365-copilot-connector-framework — Production-grade pluggable TypeScript framework for building M365 Copilot connectors. Durable Functions orchestration, Graph JSON batching, retry middleware, checkpoint/resume, and Zod-validated config.

• 🎙️ podcast-ai-production-pipeline + project-sydney-podcast-concept — AI podcast factory: YAML scripts → ElevenLabs TTS → Gemini Lyria music → DSP mixing → mastered audio. Includes a serialised fiction tax thriller concept.
• 🎬 ai-video-production-pipeline — Story-to-video generator using Google Gemini (script, casting, keyframes) and Veo models for rendered video scenes.

• 🎓 thesis-replication-pipeline — Automated academic thesis replication: 4-module pipeline (data collection → qualitative analysis → LaTeX generation → orchestration) for Dutch media path-dependence research.
• 🔐 smart-lock-guest-access — Zero-dependency Node.js system for time-limited, one-time guest unlock links for Nuki/SwitchBot/Loqed smart locks. JWT auth, CLI wizard, interactive tests.

• Scaling AI in regulated industries — architecting multi-agent systems where compliance, governance, and GenAI Triage Boards are part of the build, not afterthoughts.
• Speaking & writing — keynotes at cross-industry roundtables; essays & case notes on lurn.digital.
• Teaching — AI track at TechLabs Rotterdam; EU Pact for Skills Ambassador; occasional conference talks.
• Shipping reusable tools — if a client problem generalises, I open-source the generic piece.

• MSc Strategic Management — Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (Strategic Management Consulting: 8.9/10, top-5 in class).
• Deloitte Talent Award for Leadership (Mar 2017) — recognised during a 10-year tenure as Manager in Technology Consulting.
• Keynoted to ASML, KLM, Philips, Heineken, Booking.com, Ahold, Rituals at cross-industry AI roundtables.
• 2,500+ training-seat engagements across multinational enterprise L&D programmes (Deloitte + Shell).
• European Commission Pact for Skills Ambassador since Dec 2020.
• Trusted on early-access programs for Anthropic and OpenAI (tier-5 developer access).
• Founded Lurn Digital after 15 years of consulting at Deloitte, Accenture, and the Dutch Ministry of Finance.
• Base: Rotterdam. Commutes to wherever the client is.
• Dutch, English, some German.
• Coffee > espresso. Always.