Pieter Verhoeven

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Principal Engineer at Adyen | ex-Criteo

Adyen
Amsterdam, Netherlands · CET (UTC+1)
12+ years experience
Humboldt University of Berlin
English, Dutch
Co-founder
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Overview

I work on data pipelines at Adyen in Amsterdam. Reduced cloud spend on data platform by 36% in two quarters. Grew the data platform team from 4 to 32 engineers. Before that: Criteo and SAP. Most at home with Python and Kafka. I write short fiction no one reads.

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Skills
KafkaSparkdbtIcebergPython
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
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Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for loyalty programmes for hardware startups

The idea
Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for loyalty programmes for hardware startups
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
15 years in developer infrastructure
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Full-time now
Location
Amsterdam or remote

I bring 21 years of data pipelines (currently Adyen). Ideally you've run operations in Europe. Full-time from day one.

Amsterdam, Netherlandsicebergpythonkafka
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Experience

  1. Principal Engineer
    May 2025 - Present
    Adyen · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • Sit on 3 boards.
    • Backed 44 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jun 2023 - May 2025
    Criteo · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • Moved 77% of data platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Staff Data Engineer
    Jun 2020 - Jun 2023
    SAP · 3 yr · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • Replaced 51 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  4. Data Engineer
    Nov 2017 - Jun 2020
    N26 · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • Taught SQL to 94 non-analysts.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  5. Data Engineer
    Apr 2015 - Nov 2017
    IKEA · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.

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Education

  1. Humboldt University of Berlin
    BA, Computer Engineering
    2001 - 2004

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